DUBAI, UAE — November 9, 2026 — Lawstronaut today announced that its legal database has reached 100 million documents. Integrations with Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude allow lawyers, compliance teams and developers to retrieve legal sources within their existing workflows and check the underlying publications.
The legaltech and legal AI industry has a hunger for data and a thirst for knowledge. Companies building research tools, compliance software and AI assistants need access to the laws, court decisions and regulatory guidance behind their answers. Lawstronaut meets that demand by collecting and organising legal sources and making them accessible through search, APIs and AI integrations, so developers can focus on building useful products.
In just over a year, the family-owned company has built the fastest-growing legal database of its kind. An increasing number of legaltech companies are already using its infrastructure to power their own products.
A court decision can exist for decades and still be practically invisible to the software someone uses to research a legal question. Making that document accessible, searchable, and traceable to its source is essential work behind useful legal AI.
Wanne Pemmelaar
CEO, Lawstronaut
Making every primary legal source retrievable
Lawstronaut’s goal is to make all primary legal sources worldwide available through one infrastructure layer, including material that is hard to find, poorly indexed or available only as scanned documents. The company collects publications from legislatures, courts and regulators, extracts the text, and organises it with metadata such as jurisdiction, issuing authority, language and version. Every document carries a reference back to the underlying official publication.
One area of focus is historic court decisions. Lawstronaut prepares its own publications from the original judgments so older legal reasoning becomes usable in modern search tools and AI systems.
From APIs to AI assistants
Customers access the data through APIs, which allow software systems to exchange information, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard that lets compatible AI assistants access external tools and data. Together, these let:
- ✓Lawyers ask a connected assistant to retrieve relevant material during research and then review the sources
- ✓Companies build monitoring tools for regulatory publications in their markets
- ✓Developers add legal research to an application without maintaining separate collection systems for every court, regulator or government website
Every difficult source involves practical engineering: understanding how it was published, processing its documents and making the content retrievable. That applies to a newly published regulation and to a historic judgment prepared for renewed publication. Our ambition includes both.
Wanne Pemmelaar
CEO, Lawstronaut
A family-owned company with a clear ambition
Lawstronaut remains family-owned and reached the 100-million-document milestone without outside investors.
About Lawstronaut
Lawstronaut was created by the team behind filerskeepers, the market leader in records retention schedule research. It provides legal data infrastructure for legaltech developers, AI companies, law firms, and legal departments. Its collection includes legislation, court decisions, official guidance, and other legal publications, accessible through software interfaces and AI integrations. Learn more at lawstronaut.com.
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