About

Lysias is a legal technology company building AI-powered software for modern legal professionals. Our mission is to enhance the way lawyers research, draft, and analyze legal information by combining advanced artificial intelligence with deep domain expertise. Founded by a multidisciplinary team of engineers and legal practitioners, Lysias is designed specifically for litigators, advisory law firms, and in-house legal teams. The platform leverages state-of-the-art natural language processing and structured legal data to deliver precise, context-aware outputs tailored to professional standards. Our architecture is cloud-native and modular, enabling secure deployment, scalability, and continuous improvement. We prioritize reliability, transparency, and compliance in every layer of the system.

Solution & Product

Solution & Product Lysias is an AI-powered legal platform designed to streamline and enhance three core pillars of legal work: drafting, research, and analysis. Drafting Lysias assists legal professionals in preparing high-quality legal documents, including pleadings, contracts, legal opinions, and formal correspondence. The platform: Generates structured, jurisdiction-aware drafts Performs targeted modifications on existing documents Enhances clarity, consistency, and legal reasoning Adapts tone and structure to litigation or advisory contexts By combining legal logic with contextual understanding, Lysias accelerates document preparation while preserving professional control and judgment. Searching Lysias enables intelligent legal research through advanced semantic search capabilities. The platform: Interprets complex legal queries in natural language Identifies relevant case law, legislation, and doctrinal material Extracts key reasoning and highlights critical passages Reduces time spent navigating fragmented sources Rather than simple keyword matching, Lysias focuses on contextual and conceptual relevance, delivering more precise and usable research results. Analyzing Lysias supports deeper legal analysis by structuring and synthesizing complex legal information. The platform: Summarizes lengthy judgments and legal texts Identifies legal issues, arguments, and counterarguments Compares positions across cases Assists in risk assessment and strategy.

Innovation & Scalability

Innovation Lysias introduces a domain-specific approach to legal artificial intelligence, combining advanced large language models with structured legal data and workflow-aware design. Our innovation lies in: Context-aware legal intelligence — moving beyond generic AI outputs to jurisdiction-sensitive, professionally structured results Workflow integration — aligning AI capabilities with real legal practice (litigation, advisory, and in-house environments) Controlled AI interaction — enabling precise modifications, traceable outputs, and structured reasoning rather than opaque generation Scalability Lysias is built on a modular, cloud-native architecture designed for secure growth and operational resilience. Key scalability characteristics include: Microservices-based infrastructure enabling independent scaling of core components API-first design allowing integration with external systems (e.g., document management tools, internal knowledge bases) Multi-tenant capability supporting law firms and enterprise legal departments Localization readiness allowing expansion across jurisdictions and languages Data-agnostic framework adaptable to new legal datasets and regulatory environments

Traction & achievements

Traction & Achievements Since launch, Lysias has demonstrated strong early validation within the legal market. Commercial Traction 15 paying customers across litigation and advisory practices €10,000 in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Growing pipeline of qualified leads through direct outreach and professional referrals Our early adopters include independent litigators and boutique law firms actively integrating Lysias into their daily drafting and research workflows. Enterprise Validation Beyond paid subscriptions, Lysias has initiated pilot programs with major corporations and established law firms. These pilot engagements focus on: Evaluating drafting efficiency gains Assessing research precision and reliability Testing internal deployment within structured legal teams The feedback from these enterprise pilots is directly informing product refinement, security posture, and scalability planning

Team & Why Us

Team & Why Us Michail Potamitis — CEO LL.B. @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). Background in legal technology and entrepreneurship, with a strong focus on bridging legal practice and applied AI. Leads product vision, market strategy, and partnerships. Prof. Dimitrios Kyriazis — General Counsel PhD @ University of Oxford. Assistant Professor at AUTh Law School and Attorney at the Supreme Court of Greece. Provides academic depth, doctrinal precision, and high-level legal oversight. Engineering Orfeas Filippopoulos — CTO | AI Engineer | Head of Research PhD Candidate @ NKUA. 5+ years of experience in engineering, defense tech, and algorithmic trading. Leads AI architecture, model integration, and research direction. Despoina Grammenou — Lead Back-End Engineer MSc @ ECE NTUA. 5+ years of experience in engineering and web development. Responsible for system architecture, scalability, and infrastructure reliability. Thodoris Paparrigopoulos — Lead Front-End Engineer PhD Candidate @ NTUA. 6+ years of experience in engineering, web, and application development. Leads product interface, usability, and workflow implementation. Why Us 1. Rare Legal–AI Balance Our structure combines academic legal authority, active legal practice insight, and advanced AI engineering expertise. Few legal-tech teams operate with this level of domain depth on both sides. 2. Research-Driven AI With PhD-level engineering leadership and ongoing research activity, Lysias integrat

Funding Needs

Lysias is not actively raising at this stage. However, we expect to initiate a funding round within the next 2 months, aligned with our planned international expansion and strategic relocation abroad. The upcoming round will support: Establishing presence in a leading legal-tech ecosystem Accelerating AI product development Expanding enterprise sales efforts Strengthening infrastructure and compliance capabilities We are currently focused on product refinement, enterprise pilots, and revenue growth, while preparing for a structured fundraising process in the near term.