Swiss Hosted SHA-256 Audit Chain AES-256 Vault GDPR · revFADP
I. Title

The digital law firm.
Forensically chained.

fairlane.legal — AI-assisted matter, evidence and brief platform for law firms that work forensically. Designed in Zug, Swiss-hosted, court-ready.

Case file, evidence, brief and research in a single, audit-bound environment — encrypted, versioned, court-ready. Five pillars · one truth: what fairlane.legal records withstands every forensic counter-expertise.

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Audit Chain Matter 24/0078
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Evidence A.3 uploaded 14:22:08 UTC+1 hash3a7f9b04 c2e1d8a6 ff04ba12 d781ee36
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Brief §823 BGB v3 · paragraph 4 added 14:24:31 UTC+1 hashb81e4f12 7a905b3c a99c0d54 17f8c321
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Case sealed & PDF bundle exported 14:30:55 UTC+1 hashe29c8d7a f1b30e44 88e201c5 6d4ab019
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Handover to court · bundle filed 15:02:14 UTC+1 hash7c4e1f88 9b22a06e d3158a0c b290e1d4
4 entries · 1 case · 1 client Chain intact
PRODUCTION REALITY · fairlane.legal

A working digital law firm.

fairlane.legal is not a wireframe — 696 Swiss laws indexed, 49 production DB tables, 117 routes, AI-augmented case workflow. Built and operated daily.

696
Swiss laws indexed
BV · OR · ZGB · StGB · cantonal codes
117
Production routes
audit-logged · authentication-bound
49
DB tables
case · evidence · billing · audit
11
AI / ops features
doc-review · summarization · compliance
Case management · Evidence chain · Encrypted at rest · 20+ cron jobs · Real-time chat · PDF generation · OAuth · 30 / 30 audit pass · zero-leak verified
Source: fairlane.ventures production state · 2026-05-03
Statutory Sources
696
DE · CH · EU indexed
DACH Legal SAM 2026
€4.2bn
Legal-tech vertical · Gartner+IDC
Roles · RBAC
5
Client · Lawyer · Court · Admin · Auditor
Realistic Exit · 7y
€180M
8–12× ARR vertical-legal multiple
fairlane.legalFolio · 01 of 07
II. Practice · 5-word

A platform for firms that work forensically.

15-word description: The digital law firm — AI-assisted matter, evidence, brief and research in a single audit-bound environment, Swiss-hosted.

Phase
Production · v17
Started
2024-Q3 · live court case
Last Update
2026-04-30 · v17 + 14 apps
fairlane.legalFolio · 02 of 07
III. System · Why now

One platform. The entire mandate cycle.

Notion was built for software teams. SharePoint for IT departments. Slack for chat. None of them were built for industries that get audited. A Swiss private bank cannot store privileged client data in Notion. A law firm cannot version a court filing in SharePoint. An M&A team cannot run a deal room in Slack. fairlane.legal is the platform a regulated firm reaches for instead.

The Five Pillars

One truth, cryptographically verifiable.

  • Audit-Chain — cryptographically chained · SHA-256 · tamper-evident
  • Encrypted Vault — client-specific AES-256, server admins handle ciphertext
  • AI Drafting — 696 statutory sources DE · CH · EU, multi-LLM gateway with fallback
  • Versioning & Diff — word, line, block · LCS-based forensic diff
  • Multi-Tenant & RBAC — strict tenant isolation · 5 roles

Forensic Backbone

What competitors structurally cannot have.

  • Live court case battle-tested · 292 active docs, hash-dedupe, encrypted PDF auto-decrypt
  • Smart Auto-Edit with selection-aware Range API; Batch Smart Edit up to 20 files concurrent
  • Qdrant RAG with 20 collections · LiteLLM gateway routing Opus/Sonnet/Haiku/DeepSeek/Perplexity/Ollama with fallback
  • Self-hosted EU/CH on Hetzner · GDPR · revFADP · ready for FINMA / SOC 2 / ISO 27001 path
  • n8n × 21 workflows · Sentry+Loki+Grafana · CrowdSec+UFW
fairlane.legalFolio · 03 of 07
IV. Evidence · Problem

What we solve.

Today's legal-practice software either covers billing & CRM, or document management — never both forensically. We replace the patchwork.

For Law Firms

The patchwork that collapses under audit.

  • Notion / SharePoint — no audit chain, no encrypted PDF, no LCS-diff, no court export
  • Clio · MyCase — billing & CRM, but no cryptographic evidence ledger
  • Outlook + Word + Dropbox — manual versioning, no tamper detection, no chain-of-custody
  • Lexis · Westlaw — research silos, no matter management, no client portal
  • RBAC weakness — partner can read every junior's drafts; no client-bound key encapsulation

For Their Clients

No window into the matter that matters.

  • No client portal — status updates by email, files by Dropbox link
  • No audit transparency — client cannot verify what was filed, when, by whom
  • Privileged communication leaks through unencrypted email and consumer chat tools
  • No court-ready bundle — filings assembled manually, often the night before
  • Cost opacity — billable-hour reporting after the fact, no real-time matter cost
fairlane.legalFolio · 04 of 07
V. Market · Size · Growth

Size and growth.

DACH legal-tech vertical · 26,000 addressable law firms (CH 1,500 · DE 16,500 · AT 2,400 · LI/LU 200) plus 5,500 in-house legal departments. Sources: Gartner LegalTech 2024 · IDC · Statista · Schweizerischer Anwaltsverband.

TAM · Total
€38bn
TAM · global legal-tech & document automation
SAM · Serviceable
€4.2bn
SAM · DACH legal-vertical software · 26k firms
SOM · 7Y Target
€22M
SOM 7y · 0.5% capture · regulated-firm tier
3 Years+22% / y
5 Years+27% / y · AI mandate
10 Years€180M exit @ €22M ARR
fairlane.legalFolio · 05 of 07
VI. Positioning · Capability

Why we win.

Side-by-side capability comparison vs five legal-tech incumbents. ✓ = built · ~ = partial · · = absent.

Capability fairlane.legal Clio MyCase Wolters Legisway Lexis+ AI
SHA-256 Audit Chain · tamper-evident✓··~·
Client-bound AES-256 key encapsulation✓··~·
Self-hosted Swiss / FINMA path✓··~·
696 statutory sources · DE·CH·EU✓··~✓
LCS-based forensic diff✓····
Live court-case battle-tested✓····
Multi-LLM gateway · 6 providers · fallback✓···~
Encrypted PDF auto-decrypt & index✓····
fairlane.legalFolio · 06 of 07
VII. Access · Offer

What you get.

Investment Round

Seed · Equity & Return

  • Seed €2–3M for FINMA + SOC 2 + ISO 27001 path
  • 8–12× ARR multiple on legal-vertical SaaS exits (Wolters, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis)
  • Realistic 7y exit €180M at €22M ARR
  • Strategic acquirers: Wolters Kluwer · Thomson Reuters · LexisNexis · Bucher Tax · Six

Moat

Structural position.

  • Live court-case battle-tested · only player in this tier
  • Cryptographic evidence ledger · competitors at 0–1 features
  • Self-host EU/CH default · Notion/Slack/SharePoint cannot
  • 696 statutory sources DE·CH·EU · domain depth no Anglo player has

12-Month Plan

Use of funds.

  • 30% SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO 27001 + FINMA path certifications
  • 30% First 30 paying law-firm pilots in CH + DE
  • 25% Module marketplace v1 + 3rd-party SDK
  • 15% Sales lead (DACH legal sector) + content / SEO
fairlane.legalFolio · 07 of 07