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A letter from the CEO

Lettre du CEO

Dr Angelos Chionis

Today I’m excited to share something I’ve been working toward for a long time: the formation of FormalistAI.

Over the last years, I had the opportunity to build and operate systems at scale at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Those experiences shaped how I think about reliability, security, and automation — and they made one thing increasingly obvious: legal workflows are still running on tooling and processes that simply haven’t caught up to the complexity and speed that modern businesses need.

FormalistAI exists to change that.

Why I started FormalistAI

Across jurisdictions, legal operations share the same pain points: repeated manual work, fragmented document handling, inconsistent data quality, and filing portals that were never designed for high-volume, high-accuracy operations. The result is slow turnaround, costly human review, and avoidable rejections.

The problems we solve

  • Document understanding: Extract structured data from real legal documents reliably.
  • Cross-document validation: Detect inconsistencies before they become rejections.
  • Workflow automation: Orchestrate the entire filing journey end-to-end.
  • Auditability: Maintain a clear trail of what was extracted, changed, and submitted.
  • Scalability: Operate at volume without “more headcount” being the only answer.

Why this matters for the industry

Legal work is becoming more operational, more integrated, and more time-sensitive. Platforms, law firms, and in-house legal teams need the same level of automation maturity that finance and engineering teams already take for granted. The winners will be those who can deliver speed and certainty — without compromising compliance.

What makes me optimistic

I’m genuinely happy — and proud — to build FormalistAI alongside energized and creative people who care about quality, craft, and impact. We’re building something that’s not just “AI features”, but real infrastructure that makes legal work faster, safer, and more scalable.

If you’re a platform, a legal team, or a firm working at scale and you want to see what FormalistAI can do, I’d love to connect.

Thank you for being part of the beginning.

— Angelos

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