Laki.ai

What is Laki.ai?

Laki.ai is a remote MCP server that your AI assistant searches: the assistant fetches sources from Laki.ai and writes the answer, with citations that open each source directly.^7,11 The PRO terms say the service is used through a third-party AI assistant and cannot be used without one.¹³ Laki.ai lists Claude as available and ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot as coming, though it publishes setup steps for a custom app in ChatGPT’s developer mode and describes a Copilot pre-release that it activates per organisation.^7,11,16

Laki.ai also offers a browser and search for Finnish acts and decrees, built on Finlex open data, but no Word or document management integration is listed.^7,12 For a lawyer in Finland, the main questions are which sources it adds and how the two providers involved handle client details.

What can Laki.ai do?

Each section of a statute is linked to the preparatory works that explain it and the court decisions that applied it, and earlier wordings are kept so the assistant can tell which version was in force on a given date.⁷ Our Finnish sources score rests on these links, as Laki.ai describes them.

In Claude (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise plans), the connector adds tools for searching sources, reading a document and retrieving a section’s history, and ends each session with a list of cited sources.¹⁴ Free accounts get a limited number of PRO searches and PRO plans an unlimited number, but the vendor does not explain what a PRO search does differently.⁶ PRO and Enterprise subscribers can create API keys for a headless endpoint used by coding agents such as Claude Code, where EU legislation is onboarded but not yet searchable; offering a Laki.ai-based product to others needs a Developer subscription or an Enterprise contract with redistribution rights.^6,10

The site is in Finnish; its sitemap also lists English versions of the terms, privacy policy, data processing terms and several integration pages.⁸ No published benchmark yet measures whether an assistant answers Finnish legal questions better with Laki.ai connected. We therefore score Laki.ai only together with an assistant it works in, which for now is Claude: Laki.ai lists the ChatGPT integration as coming, and its ChatGPT page only explains how to add Laki.ai yourself as a custom app in ChatGPT’s developer mode^7,11,14. The scores below for answer quality are the assistant’s own, not a measure of Laki.ai’s sources: the benchmarks behind them run the assistant’s model without any legal source connector. What Laki.ai adds shows under Finnish and EU legal sources, here and in the home page score chart.

Does Laki.ai cover Finnish and EU law?

Yes: Finnish law, linked in a knowledge graph, and EU legislation and Court of Justice case law, which are listed as available.¹⁹ For Finland, it holds consolidated and original statutes from Finlex; decisions of the Supreme Court (KKO), the Supreme Administrative Court (KHO), the courts of appeal, the administrative courts, the Market Court, the Labour Court and the Insurance Court; and government proposals and Eduskunta parliamentary documents.^7,19 It also includes the Tax Administration’s detailed tax guidelines from vero.fi.¹⁹ No year ranges are given for case law.⁷ For the EU, the treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Parliament and Council regulations, directives and decisions, Commission delegated and implementing acts and the case law of the Court of Justice are listed as available. General Court case law and Council legislation are listed as coming.¹⁹ The headless endpoint for coding agents says EU search is not yet enabled there.¹⁰

The data coverage page lists only public sources: Finlex, Eduskunta open data, vero.fi and EUR-Lex.¹⁹ It does not replace the commentaries and handbooks a Finnish practice relies on.

How does Laki.ai handle your data?

Your research is handled by Laki.ai, which uses Google Cloud and Vertex AI for search and model processing, with model and embedding requests processed in the Vertex AI EU region, and by your assistant provider, which processes data under its own terms and is not a Laki.ai subprocessor merely for sending it requests.⁹ No storage region is named, and the privacy policy says service providers may process data outside Finland or the EEA under an adequacy decision or safeguards such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.^{1,9,17,21–23} A firm would therefore review both providers’ terms.

Laki.ai’s data processing agreement (DPA) covers every signed-in user of the research tools, free accounts included, with the customer as controller and Laki.ai as processor for research inputs and outputs; it includes audit rights and requires breach notice without undue delay, with no fixed number of hours.⁹ Its published terms and privacy policy say research inputs and outputs are not used to train AI models, search queries are not stored beyond the request, and operational records hold metadata only; the PRO terms also allow non-identifiable usage data to be used to develop the service.^{1,13,16–18,21,22}

The subprocessor list names only Google, while the privacy policy also lists authentication, billing, email, support, error-monitoring and analytics providers as recipients.^9,22 No security certification is claimed, and SCIM provisioning and customer-facing audit logs are not documented; single sign-on is documented only as Microsoft Entra sign-in for the Copilot pre-release.^{1,6,9–11,16,17,20–22,24–26} These are the points to raise with Laki.ai.

How much does Laki.ai cost?

There is a free plan, and new personal PRO subscribers who have not had PRO or Enterprise before get a 30-day free trial, which needs a saved payment method and then continues at €20 a month unless cancelled.⁶ Free, PRO and the organisation plan are self-serve; the paid ones are charged monthly in advance, and PRO has no minimum commitment. Capacity-based organisation plans bill the approved capacity, used or not.^6,13,16–18

PRO also needs your own subscription to an assistant that supports custom connectors, paid separately¹³, so the cost per user is Laki.ai plus the assistant. Prices are in euros and include Finnish VAT, on a Finnish-language pricing page with no stated country restriction; under the organisation terms, public bodies, courts, arbitral tribunals and other dispute-resolution bodies need a separate written agreement.^6,13,16–18

Who makes Laki.ai?

Laki.ai is made by Helsinki AI Labs Oy¹, based in Helsinki, Finland². The company was registered in 2022 as Axel Venture Oy and took its current name in 2023.² It names no shareholders, investors or parent company and mentions no funding rounds.^2–5

Who uses Laki.ai?

Laki.ai shows no named customers, logos or testimonials.^3,4,20,24 Customer references would have to come from the vendor.