Artificial intelligence is strengthening its role as a key tool in transforming the legal sector, though it does not replace the work of lawyers. This is the view of Robert Brufau, CEO of the legaltech ENLEY, who sums up his vision in one sentence: “AI is an accelerator, not a substitute for lawyers.” The company, which serves more than 20,000 clients per year, cements its digital legal services model in Spain and Mexico, based on technology and supervision by specialized lawyers.
Legal services turned into digital processes
The legal sector continues moving toward increasingly digital and structured models, where technology is no longer just a support layer, but a central part of how services are delivered. In this context, the Catalan legaltech Enley, founded in 2020, has developed a platform that converts traditional legal services into standardized digital processes, with the aim of simplifying access and reducing the habitual friction of the sector.
The company operates in Spain and Mexico and offers services such as divorces, company formations, trademark registrations, or debt cancellation through fully online workflows. The process starts with a simple form and continues with the support of specialized lawyers, who manage each case digitally from the platform.
Legal services turned into a product
The Enley model rests on a fairly clear idea: to stop treating each case as something isolated and start structuring legal services as products.
That translates into defined end-to-end processes, with a closed scope, fixed price, and an operation that aims to be as predictable as possible. The user enters the platform, starts their procedure, and from there the entire flow — documentation, progress tracking, and communication — is centralized digitally.
“Ultimately what we’ve done is stop thinking of each case as something unique and start structuring it as a product. If you can’t automate or minimally standardize it, it doesn’t scale,” explains Enley’s CTO.
The goal isn’t to eliminate the legal component, but to organize it and make it more efficient, reducing unnecessary steps and gaining clarity throughout the process.
Standardization as a lever for scaling
Enley sits within an increasingly clear trend in the legaltech sector: the standardization of services that have traditionally been managed manually and in a highly fragmented way.
This approach enables scaling service delivery without losing control over quality, and makes it easier to introduce technological improvements progressively at different points in the process.
“The key isn’t to put technology in for its own sake; it’s to reduce the variability of the process. The more everything is defined, the easier it is to automate parts without breaking the overall legal workflow,” say the Enley technical team.
The company operates with a hybrid model in which technology orders and automates part of the operation, while the legal judgment remains in the hands of specialized lawyers.
