How Langdock Scales with Clayfield
Scale-ups don't need a larger legal department to remain fully operational. They just need a partner that matches their pace.
About Langdock
Langdock is a Berlin-based AI platform that enables companies to deploy generative AI securely. Maintaining the highest compliance standards, Langdock serves thousands of customers, including industry leaders like Merck and GetYourGuide.
The Challenge: Every New Enterprise Deal Brings Legal Queries
As Langdock grew rapidly, so did the volume and complexity of legal inquiries. Questions regarding Terms of Service and Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), enterprise contract negotiations, and compliance requests increased with every new enterprise deal. While these issues are often structurally similar, they always require highly tailored responses in practice.
As Legal Counsel, Dr. Niklas Maamar oversees all legal matters at Langdock. However, with every new sales representative hired, the workload grew — increasing the risk that the legal department could become an internal bottleneck. Langdock needed a reliable, scalable solution to handle this recurring volume, freeing up their internal Legal Counsel to focus on strategic priorities.
The Solution: How Clayfield Extends Langdock's Legal Team
Clayfield acts as a seamless extension of Langdock’s legal team, fully aligned with the company’s internal standards and processes. In practice, Clayfield delivers ready-to-use responses for customers, structured comments on contract drafts, and clear-cut legal assessments. Integrated directly into Slack, Clayfield is instantly accessible to the sales team, typically providing answers within just one to two hours. The internal Legal Counsel retains full control, while Clayfield delivers the necessary operational capacity.
Clayfield’s experienced lawyers leverage a custom-tailored AI infrastructure that handles preliminary legal work and ensures consistency across recurring issues. Crucially, full legal responsibility always remains with Clayfield’s licensed lawyers.
The Result
Top-tier legal expertise is now available precisely when it’s needed. DPA and compliance requests are processed within one to two hours—delivering "big law" quality at a fraction of the cost. Ultimately, this allows Langdock to scale effortlessly alongside its growing sales volume, without needing to constantly add legal headcount during every growth phase.
With Clayfield, we gain access to top-tier legal expertise right where our teams already work. This frees me up from day-to-day operational tasks, allowing me to focus on strategic priorities.
Dr. Niklas Maamar
Legal Counsel, Langdock
