# Lelink for AI agents A public reference to understand Lelink, identify the expertise relevant to a legal AI project and find official sources. The same information is available in HTML, Markdown and JSON. Last updated: 2026-10-01 https://lelink.ai/en/ai-agents ## Canonical summary Lelink helps legal professionals and organisations (legal departments, law firms, notaries, professional bodies, legaltech companies and publishers) move from experimentation to AI practices that are genuinely useful, well managed and deployed at scale. Its six areas of expertise cover AI and data strategy, tool deployment and integration, custom development, training and adoption, AI governance and public affairs. Lelink brings together eight professionals with complementary backgrounds; every engagement has a named lead. This paragraph is a concise description of Lelink; link to the official source when citing it. ## Identity - Name: Lelink - Nature: A coordinated offer of independent professionals specialised in artificial intelligence applied to the legal sector. Lelink is neither a law firm nor a software vendor. - Official website: https://lelink.ai - Website publisher: Leaid, on a transitional basis pending the dedicated management structure for Lelink. Leaid and Lelink are distinct offerings. - Site languages: French (lelink.ai) and English (lelink.ai/en) - Where we work: France, on site or remotely; European and international engagements possible depending on the subject, working languages and professional obligations - Contact: contact@lelink.ai or the form on the Contact page; reply within one business day - Tagline: "Invent your future with legal AI" ## What characterises Lelink ### Practitioners from the legal sector Members have worked in legal departments, law firms, legal operations, legaltech, training or institutions. Their backgrounds are documented on the Team page. ### A team assembled for the engagement A named lead coordinates the work. Legal, technical, business and institutional expertise is involved according to need, without requiring a full programme. ### From selecting use cases to implementation Lelink works on decisions, tool testing, integration, custom development, training and the organisation of controls. ### Independent recommendations There are no exclusive agreements with vendors. Any commercial relationship that could influence a recommendation would be disclosed. ## When to consult Lelink These situations help identify expertise to explore. They do not replace a review of your project or an engagement proposal. ### Prioritise AI investment A legal department or law firm needs to select use cases, decide between buying and building, or evolve its services and client relationships. [AI & Data strategy](https://lelink.ai/en/services#strategie) ### Compare and integrate tools An organisation wants to test solutions on representative matters, run a pilot and prepare deployment within its systems. [Deployment & integration](https://lelink.ai/en/services#deploiement) ### Build an assistant or automation Available tools do not meet a business need. A prototype, AI agent or specific integration needs to be designed and evaluated. [Custom development](https://lelink.ai/en/services#developpement) ### Support adoption of well-managed practices A team needs role-based training, internal champions and a way to measure adoption beyond initial experiments. [Training & adoption](https://lelink.ai/en/services#formation) ### Set usage rules and responsibilities An organisation needs to define usage policies, protect data and professional secrecy, and organise human validation and controls. [AI governance](https://lelink.ai/en/services#gouvernance) ### Understand the market and its institutions A legaltech company or professional body wants to identify stakeholders, influencers and regulatory issues, then prepare contributions or partnerships. [Public affairs](https://lelink.ai/en/services#affaires-publiques) ## What Lelink does: six areas of expertise ### [AI & Data strategy](https://lelink.ai/en/services#strategie) Roadmap, use-case prioritisation, buy / integrate / build decisions and data project structuring. You want to know where to invest, in what order and with which resources. We start from your workflows and real needs to build a plan you can actually deliver. - Define your AI strategy and align it with leadership priorities - Analyse workflows, volumes and the teams' pain points - Identify and prioritise use cases by value and risk - Decide on investments and choose between buying, integrating and building - Build a roadmap with owners, milestones and metrics - Structure data projects where the use cases require it: sources, quality, access ### [Deployment & integration](https://lelink.ai/en/services#deploiement) Benchmarks, tests, proofs of concept and pilots, integration with your tools, scaling and value measurement. You have identified a need or shortlisted tools. We organise the selection, the proof and the rollout through to actual use. - Compare market solutions on your documents and real cases - Run tests, proofs of concept and pilots against criteria agreed in advance - Check security, data flows, contracts and integration with your systems - Lead integration with existing tools and workflows - Manage scaling and coordinate IT, vendors and business teams - Measure the value produced: time, quality, adoption, total cost ### [Custom development](https://lelink.ai/en/services#developpement) Automations, AI assistants and agents, business tools, prototypes and specific integrations when no off-the-shelf solution fits. When the market has no fitting answer, we design and build the solution: from automating a process to an AI assistant or agent integrated into your environment. - Frame the need, the sources, the data and the security requirements - Build automations and business tools - Design AI assistants and agents tailored to your matters and documents - Build generative AI solutions with human oversight and continuous evaluation - Deliver prototypes to test an idea quickly on real cases - Integrate the solution with your tools: email, document management, legal databases, APIs ### [Training & adoption](https://lelink.ai/en/services#formation) Leadership briefings, role-based training, champions, adoption measurement and long-term support. A deployed tool is not a used tool. We support your teams until practices are embedded, with formats adapted to each role. - Brief leadership and governance bodies - Train teams by role, on their own documents and workflows - Design tailored programmes: in-house counsel, lawyers, associates, support functions - Identify use cases with the teams and document them as workflows - Support a champion network and local support - Shift internal culture and measure adoption over time ### [AI governance](https://lelink.ai/en/services#gouvernance) Acceptable-use policies, control, security and traceability, plus the legal framework: AI Act, GDPR, professional secrecy, ethics rules. Useful governance enables as much as it controls. We work on both dimensions: the operational and technical organisation of AI use, and its legal framework. - Internal policies and usage rules - Tool selection and qualification - Usage controls, human validation and incident management - Security, documentation and system traceability - Validation processes and accountability - EU AI Act: system classification and obligations - GDPR and data protection - Professional obligations and professional secrecy - Ethics rules applicable to the legal professions - Liability and governance organisation ### [Public affairs](https://lelink.ai/en/services#affaires-publiques) Stakeholder mapping, regulatory monitoring, relations with professional bodies, positioning and coalitions. In a regulated sector, an AI project also plays out beyond the organisation: authorities, bar associations, professional bodies, partners. We connect technological change with institutional understanding. - Understand the institutional environment and map the players - Organise relations with professional bodies and authorities - Run regulatory monitoring and turn it into operational decisions - Build a positioning strategy and coalitions - Prepare policy positions and contributions - Open access to decision-makers and influencers ## Who we help ### [Legal departments](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui?profil=directions-juridiques) Prioritise use cases, select tools that fit your systems and demonstrate value to leadership. ### [Law firms](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui?profil=cabinets-avocats) Work faster on matters, protect professional secrecy and confidentiality, and build an offer your clients understand. ### [Notaries](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui?profil=notaires) Secure deed preparation, choose reliable tools and train the whole practice to consistent standards. ### [Professional bodies and institutions](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui?profil=organisations) Set guidance, equip and train your members, and represent the profession's position to public authorities. ### [Legaltech companies and publishers](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui?profil=legaltech) Adapt your offer to the legal market, reach decision-makers and influencers, and prove your product's reliability. ## Team ### [Daria Viktorova](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#daria-viktorova) AI adoption, training and governance Daria Viktorova is a head of legal, DPO, AI project lead and trainer. She has led Darégal's legal department since 2015, working in an international environment on contracts, business law, intellectual property, personal data and the transformation of legal processes. She leads AI governance across the entire Darégal group, well beyond the legal department. As head of the Data & AI Task Force, she oversees use-case selection, the allocation of responsibilities, the creation of AI agents, training and adoption measurement. She also leads the Champions IA programme, which trains AI champions within the teams. Daria also created "Daria décrypte l'IA", a newsletter that now has more than 9,000 subscribers. Alongside this, she founded DARVIK, a company specialising in AI training and support for legal professionals. For Lelink, Daria designs training paths, adoption programmes and governance rules, translating legal and ethical requirements into practices that teams can understand and apply in their daily work. daria@lelink.ai ### [Charlotte Saint Martin](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#charlotte-saint-martin) Growth, service design and go-to-market Charlotte Saint Martin has supported the growth of legal services organisations for close to eighteen years. She held marketing and business development roles at three international law firms: CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats, K&L Gates and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where she helped build new functions, key account programmes, service offers and growth initiatives in France and across Europe. Her experience gives her a practical understanding of legal-service organisation models, client expectations, how expertise is valued and the conditions required for partners, lawyers and business services teams to work effectively together. For Lelink, Charlotte leads the business dimension of transformation: evolving the value proposition, designing AI-enabled services, growth strategy, client relationships and go-to-market. charlotte@lelink.ai ### [Emilie Letocart-Calame](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#emilie-letocart-calame) Legal operations and legal function transformation Emilie Letocart-Calame is a lawyer and legal operations specialist. After roles in insurance, real estate and technology, including Dell, CBRE and LegalCluster, she founded Calame, The Legal Ops Company, in 2019. She supports legal departments on their operating model, workflows, data, tools and performance measurement. She founded the AFJE Legal Ops committee in 2020 and published Legal Operations with LexisNexis in 2024. She also initiated One Clause, which brought legal departments, professional bodies and 21 software vendors together around a common data reversibility and portability clause. For Lelink, Emilie connects strategy, workflows, tools and adoption. She steps in when technology must concretely improve service quality, risk control and how the legal department operates. emilie@lelink.ai ### [François Girault](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#francois-girault) Lawyer working in partnership with Lelink Law, innovation and public affairs François Girault has been a lawyer at the Montpellier bar since 2012. His career combines business law, entrepreneurship, involvement in professional bodies and forward-looking work on the profession. After founding Consult It Up Avocat and becoming a partner at AGN Avocats, he joined Fidal in 2025. He advises in particular on corporate law, M&A, dispute prevention and digital law. Since January 2024, he has chaired the Foresight and Innovation committee of the Conseil national des barreaux, the French national bar council. He works on the economic, technological and social changes affecting the profession: artificial intelligence, law-firm models, innovation funding, client relationships, skills and professional ethics. For Lelink, François connects innovation strategy, law-firm realities, professional obligations and the institutional environment. francois@lelink.ai ### [Mamadou Waggeh](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#mamadou-waggeh) AI strategy, market access and delivery leadership Mamadou Waggeh is an entrepreneur and consultant specialising in artificial intelligence for regulated sectors. His career connects law, public policy, professional services development and technology. After business development roles at international law firms, he worked at the Conseil national des barreaux and then at the Directorate General for Enterprise of the French Ministry of the Economy. At the DGE, he covered regulated and liberal professions as well as market services. He contributed to public work on the adoption of generative AI and on how innovation spreads in highly regulated environments. In 2024, he founded Leaid, an AI-first consultancy dedicated to regulated ecosystems. For Lelink, Mamadou structures roadmaps, go-to-market plans and delivery arrangements. He coordinates decision-makers, business teams, lawyers and technical experts around a shared outcome. mamadou@lelink.ai ### [Pauline Riera](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#pauline-riera) Legal innovation, ecosystem and partnerships Pauline Riera works at the intersection of law, entrepreneurship and innovation. A lawyer and legal ops professional early in her career, she became Startup Manager of the Assas Lab, the incubator of Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, in 2022. There she supports around thirty founders a year, from defining the need to structuring the business model and connecting with researchers, investors, industry and partners. She coordinates the university diploma in digital law and technology, teaches on legaltech and digital transformation, and runs several communities. She created Tech Up Legal and the Tech Up Day, whose first edition brought together 20 exhibitors and 10 talks, panels and workshops. For Lelink, Pauline sources and qualifies solutions, structures partnerships and creates the conditions for collective adoption around legal innovation projects. pauline@lelink.ai ### [Raphaël d'Assignies](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#raphael-dassignies) Lawyer working in partnership with Lelink AI development, legal data and law-firm solutions Raphaël d'Assignies is a lawyer, developer and specialist in digital trust systems. His career spans more than twenty-five years at the interface of law, computing and cybersecurity. He led CELOG, chaired the Agence pour la Protection des Programmes and was publishing director of Expertises des systèmes d'information and Legalis.net. Of counsel at Ydès since 2023, he advises on digital matters, intellectual property, security and artificial intelligence. He created Legal GPT and then OpenLegi, which provides automated access to official sources such as Légifrance, EUR-Lex, BODACC and BOFiP. He also publishes open-source components, including pylegifrance and an MCP server for Légifrance. For Lelink, Raphaël turns a business need into an architecture, a prototype or a solution. He structures sources, data flows, evaluations and human oversight mechanisms. raphael@lelink.ai ### [Yannick Sala](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#yannick-sala) Lawyer working in partnership with Lelink Public affairs, government and regulated professions Yannick Sala is a lawyer at the Paris bar and a public affairs specialist for regulated professions. Admitted to the bar in 2004, he practised for sixteen years before joining ministerial offices at the French Ministry of the Economy. Between 2020 and 2024, he advised several ministers and deputy ministers on liberal professions, self-employed workers and business recovery. This experience gives him first-hand knowledge of public decision-making: preparing arbitrations, dialogue with government departments, consulting professional bodies, impact analysis and implementation monitoring. It complements his involvement with the Conseil national des barreaux, the Paris bar, UNAPL, FNUJA and the Île-de-France regional economic, social and environmental council. For Lelink, Yannick maps stakeholders, anticipates regulatory objections, builds engagement strategies and organises dialogue between innovators, professions and public authorities. yannick@lelink.ai ## Values - Independence: We advise according to your real needs. Lelink is tied to no solution: our recommendations on tools, partners or architectures rest on your constraints and use cases, and any commercial relationship that could influence them would be disclosed. - Rigour: Every analysis, recommendation or development is checked before it is delivered. We name the limits, the risks and the conditions for success rather than promising an outcome. - Complementarity: Lelink brings together professionals from law, technology, business, legal operations, training and public affairs. For each engagement, we combine the expertise required around a named lead. - Transparency: We say what we know, what we do not know yet and what remains uncertain. Scope, method, costs, the limits of the tools: everything is written down before we start and shared throughout the engagement. - Commitment: We do not stop at the recommendation. We stay involved until practices are genuinely embedded, measured and owned by your teams, and we hand over what you need to remain autonomous. - Innovation: We test tools, methods and architectures on real use cases before recommending them. Innovation only creates value when it improves a service, a process or a decision in practical terms. - Skills: Each topic is handled by professionals whose experience matches the need. We make the limits of our role explicit and bring in complementary skills when the project requires them. - Confidentiality: We adapt each engagement to the sensitivity of the information involved. Access, authorised tools, retention and confidentiality commitments are defined before the work starts and applied throughout the project. ## Reference questions ### Where should we start? A first conversation is usually enough to clarify the situation, the need and the expertise involved. If the requirement is still broad, we recommend a short assessment before proposing a larger programme. ### How long does an engagement last? A benchmark or an assessment usually takes three to six weeks. A pilot most often runs for six to ten weeks. A deployment, a custom development, an adoption programme or a public affairs engagement can extend over several months. The timeline depends on scope, available data, the number of users and technical dependencies. ### How do you staff an engagement? A named engagement lead is appointed from the outset. Additional team members contribute according to the work required. Roles, time commitments and accountability are set out in the proposal and confirmed at kickoff. ### Do you build solutions yourselves? Yes. When the market has no fitting answer, Lelink designs and builds automations, AI assistants and agents, business tools and prototypes, then integrates them into your environment. Functional design, architecture, testing, evaluation and governance are part of the engagement. ### How do you handle confidential information? Before accessing data or documents, we agree what is necessary, which tools are approved, who may access the information, how long it is retained and which confidentiality commitments apply. Tests may use anonymised, pseudonymised or synthetic data where appropriate. ### Who is the contracting entity? Lelink is a coordinated offer built on a structured partnership. The contracting entity and the contributors are specified for each engagement, according to scope, the expertise involved and the applicable professional obligations. ## Press and publications The press review lists external references concerning members and their own publications. Not every text represents a collective position of Lelink. The launch release is available in the press room. 102 press articles, 162 publications, 7 members referenced in the press review. [In the news](https://lelink.ai/en/ils-parlent-de-nous) ## Site pages For services, use the Services page; for a person, their profile; for Lelink's legal status and the website publisher, the legal notice. Each link below also has a Markdown version. - [Home](https://lelink.ai/en): Proposition, five typical needs, six areas of expertise, audiences, team. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/index.md)) - [Who we help](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui): Detailed client profiles, tab selection (?profil=). ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/pour-qui/index.md)) - [Services](https://lelink.ai/en/services): The six areas in detail, anchors #strategie, #deploiement, #developpement, #formation, #gouvernance, #affaires-publiques. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/services/index.md)) - [Our values](https://lelink.ai/en/nos-valeurs): Eight values, engagement principles, experts involved. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/nos-valeurs/index.md)) - [Our team](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe): Eight profiles, anchor #. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe/index.md)) - [In the news](https://lelink.ai/en/ils-parlent-de-nous): Press articles, publications and talks by the members, filterable by member and by category (press, publications). ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/ils-parlent-de-nous/index.md)) - [Press room](https://lelink.ai/en/espace-presse): French and English launch releases dated 1 October 2026, PDF and Word downloads, press contact. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/espace-presse/index.md)) - [FAQ](https://lelink.ai/en/faq): Frequently asked questions about how engagements work. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/faq/index.md)) - [Contact](https://lelink.ai/en/contact): Form and email address. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/contact/index.md)) - [Legal notice](https://lelink.ai/en/mentions-legales): Publisher, host, intellectual property. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/mentions-legales/index.md)) - [Privacy policy](https://lelink.ai/en/politique-de-confidentialite): Data processed, providers, rights. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/politique-de-confidentialite/index.md)) - [Cookies](https://lelink.ai/en/politique-cookies): Strictly necessary storage only. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/politique-cookies/index.md)) - [Lelink for AI agents](https://lelink.ai/en/ai-agents): A public reference to understand Lelink, identify the expertise relevant to a legal AI project and find official sources. The same information is available in HTML, Markdown and JSON. ([Markdown](https://lelink.ai/en/ai-agents/index.md)) ## What Lelink is not - Lelink does not provide legal advice to individuals and does not represent clients in court. - Lelink does not sell off-the-shelf software: custom development is designed for a given client and integrated into their environment. - Lelink is independent from vendors and model providers: no exclusive commercial partnership, and any commercial relationship that could influence a recommendation would be disclosed. - The Lelink website does not use advertising trackers. ## Machine-readable resources - [Markdown reference](https://lelink.ai/en/ai-agents/index.md): This page as structured text, without scripts or navigation elements. - [JSON data](https://lelink.ai/ai-agents/manifest.json): Identity, expertise, audiences, team and public references, in both languages. - [LLM index](https://lelink.ai/llms.txt): Short introduction and links to official sources. - [Full corpus](https://lelink.ai/llms-full.txt): Public website content in Markdown, French and English, and the press reference catalogue. - [Publication feed](https://lelink.ai/feed.xml): Press references and publications, ordered from newest to oldest. - [sitemap.xml](https://lelink.ai/sitemap.xml): Full list of indexable URLs, with FR and EN versions. - [robots.txt](https://lelink.ai/robots.txt): Search engine and AI assistant crawlers are allowed on public pages. - [Version française](https://lelink.ai/ai-agents): The same page in French. ## Public access and limits - HTML pages, Markdown files, the corpus and JSON data are available without an account and contain the same public information. The website does not serve different content according to the crawler visiting it. - For a public page, append /index.md to its path: /services/index.md, /equipe/index.md or /en/services/index.md. For the homepage, use /index.md or /en/index.md. These are text versions, not action APIs. - Administration and messages received through the contact form are excluded. The form is not a public interface intended for automated submissions. - The robots.txt file provides crawling rules. Permitted access does not guarantee indexing, citations or ranking in search engines or AI assistants. ## How to cite Lelink - Cite Lelink, the title of the page consulted and its URL. For a professional background, cite the member and link to their profile. - For an external article, cite its title, outlet, date at its actual precision and author when identified by the original source. An interview, a quotation and an opinion piece are distinct contributions. - Do not infer clients, prices, certifications, commercial agreements or guarantees from expertise or a press reference. Durations mentioned in the FAQ are indicative. - This reference contains public information. Accessibility does not grant a general licence to reproduce texts, logos, photographs or third-party articles. The legal notice and the rights of original sources still apply. The French and English versions are written separately; where they differ, the French text prevails. ## How to contact Lelink - Email: contact@lelink.ai - Form: https://lelink.ai/en/contact (subject, message, contact details) - Members: firstname@lelink.ai (addresses listed on the Team page) - Reply within one business day. Scope and participating professionals are specified before each engagement.