“Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing very quickly. Regulations are also evolving rapidly, but the tools are not,” observes Harold Atangana. The 25-year-old, who studied law and political science, wants to help bridge this gap. “Legislation is all well and good; it’s a first step towards a better future. However, we need the tools.” His ambition is for European sovereignty “to no longer be just talk from Brussels, but a reality on the streets from Luxembourg to Athens”.
The idea came to him whilst he was on work placements in the legal sector. The AI tools he used to search for case law would sometimes direct him to non-European rulings or those unrelated to the case at hand. “I started dreaming of a solution that would make my life easier,” says Atangana who grew up in Luxembourg in a family of entrepreneurs and lawyers.
At the end of 2023, he pitched his idea to Linsay Luissint, whom he had met in Belgium. Originally from Guadeloupe, the 28-year-old engineer had spent three years working in regulatory affairs and quality assurance in the pharmaceutical industry. “I looked at him in utter amazement,” she recalls. Yet she recognises challenges common to both fields: the accumulation of documents, rapidly changing standards and the need to justify every step. Above all, her experience in the pharmaceutical industry has given her a systematic approach: in a regulated environment, any change, incident or decision must be documented, traceable and justified.
We’re not here to build another AI. We’re here to build the computer.
It is this discipline that she is seeking to apply to the architecture of CorvoLux. “Just create some software for yourself,” she suggests. But you still need to know how to build it. A third co-founder, specialising in data and machine learning, then joins the team.
From personal software to the company
The first version was developed for Harold Atangana. He tested it whilst at university to organise his information and keep track of the rules relevant to his cases, before presenting it to legal professionals. Their reactions confirmed to him that there was a genuine need for it. For several months, Linsay Luissint worked on the project alongside her job. Unlike her business partner, she never imagined herself as an entrepreneur. “I didn’t even know what I wanted to do,” she says. In February 2025, she finally left her job to devote herself to the project. “I thought to myself: this is starting to look promising.”
Harold Atangana wants to set up the company in Luxembourg. After some hesitation, Linsay Luissint moves there in August 2025. CorvoLux is incorporated as a sàrl-S in March 2026. The initial development work was funded by the founders’ personal and family savings, with occasional support from freelancers. The name links the project to its origins. “Corvo” comes from “corvus”, the Latin word for “crow”, chosen for its intelligence and social behaviour. “Lux” refers to Luxembourg, the company’s primary target market.
Building the car rather than the engine
CorvoLux does not develop its own AI model. “We’re not here to reinvent AI. We’re here to build the computer,” sums up Linsay Luissint. Whilst ChatGPT, Claude and Mistral provide the engines, the company aims to build the vehicle around them: an environment linking the chosen model to files, internal rules, access rights and transaction history.
This approach addresses obstacles that have already been identified. Among European companies that had considered AI but had not adopted it by 2025, 52.5 per cent cited a lack of clarity regarding its legal implications and 48.8% cited risks relating to data protection and privacy, according to Eurostat.
In a law firm, new case law could thus be compared with existing cases to identify those it is likely to affect. The lawyer could retrieve the sources consulted, check the stages of the case handling process and retain the final decision. If a member of staff is absent or leaves the firm, a colleague could also access the work already carried out. In the event of an error, the history should make it possible to identify where the process went wrong. This documentation layer would be independent of the engine used: the client could switch models without having to rebuild its knowledge base. The data would be stored on its own servers or in a European cloud, although using a US service would maintain a dependency on that provider.
In the financial sector, this ability to maintain records meets, in particular, the requirements of Dora. The European Regulation on digital operational resilience requires the entities concerned to maintain an up-to-date register of their agreements with IT service providers; those falling under the remit of the CSSF must submit this register to the CSSF annually. CorvoLux aims to facilitate this documentation process, without replacing the necessary controls or guaranteeing compliance.
The machine is only there to serve people: people are at the heart of it all.
Finally, the team applies the same principle to the storage and transfer of digital data. In this area, the software provides the infrastructure, whilst the notary or lawyer remains responsible for the legal procedure.
Easing the pressure on a profession under strain
Beyond compliance, Harold Atangana emphasises the workload and mental fatigue faced by legal professionals. “We’re not here to sell them yet another product or a library. Above all, we’re here to support them,” he says. He would like to enable legal professionals to “go on holiday, have more time off without feeling guilty” without letting their colleagues down. “The machine is only there to serve people: people are at the heart of it,” he sums up.
This concern goes beyond the founder’s testimony alone. In France, a survey published in 2026 by the National Bar Council indicates that 60% of the lawyers surveyed had experienced, at least once in the previous 12 months, depression, burnout or suicidal thoughts. Workload and pressure to be profitable were among the main factors cited. This finding does not prove that CorvoLux can remedy the situation, but it does document the problem that its founders say they want to tackle.
A solution yet to be proven
CorvoLux has, however, yet to prove itself. Harold Atangana was its first user. Since then, freelance professionals and a few companies have been testing its tools under non-disclosure agreements, according to the founders. These initial trials have not yet led to any commercial contracts, and no quantified results have been disclosed.
To move from this initial feedback to comparable results, the team says it has drawn up a more structured evaluation protocol. In the next phase, lawyers will be asked to carry out tasks drawn from their own cases, with and without CorvoLux, in a randomised order. The work will be assessed in a blind manner, with the assessors unaware of whether the tool was used. The success criteria will be established before the trials begin. “A tool that is fast but inaccurate would be dangerous for a lawyer; a tool that is accurate but neglected would serve no purpose,” summarises Harold Atangana.
The protocol also provides for monitoring the use of CorvoLux in law firms over a period of several weeks. The company states that this monitoring will focus solely on usage data, without giving its team access to the contents of the files. For this next stage, it hopes to bring together at least 20 independent lawyers and eight law firms.
When you have an idea, there’s a gap between the idea itself and the moment when you can actually get started.
At a ‘crossroads’
When undertaking projects, CorvoLux first analyses each organisation’s needs to determine whether AI would actually be of use to it. If the project goes ahead, a bespoke implementation would generally take three months, and up to six months for the most complex set-ups.
The co-founders are now looking for organisations with which to co-develop their tools, as well as an investor with an understanding of regulated sectors who is able to challenge their decisions. “We’re at a crossroads,” admits Harold Atangana. They now need to deliver measurable results, secure their first contracts and strengthen their technical team.
Linsay Luissint, who had never envisaged this career path, now says she “feels right at home” in the world of entrepreneurship. For Harold Atangana, the desire had been there for some time. “When you have an idea, there’s a gap between the idea and the moment you can actually get started.” Having devised the tool he felt was missing, he must now prove that others are ready to adopt it.
