Capital Magazin: Freshfields' proprietary AI platform named Germany's best AI use case

Capital magazin, a leading business monthly in Germany, together with the appliedAI Institute for Europe, has announced the winners of its “Best of AI Awards” this year. Freshfields' proprietary general AI platform is named as the best AI use case in Germany. The competition is not limited to the legal sector but spans all industries.

The award was given for the firm's proprietary general AI platform, developed in the Freshfields Lab. The platform combines the firm's institutional knowledge and the expertise of its lawyers with the best AI models available. It is technology-agnostic, bringing together leading models from providers such as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI in a secure environment built for legal work. Since its launch in 2025, the platform has grown within months into the firm's most widely used AI application worldwide, with thousands of users across the whole organization globally and millions of prompts every month.

At its core are agentic workflows that handle complex legal tasks such as document analysis, drafting and contract review, complemented by an internal skills marketplace where lawyers across the firm turn their expertise into reusable workflows that colleagues can use, refine and build on. Development and operation follow strict principles of data protection, transparency and human accountability, underpinned by penetration testing, risk assessments and data protection impact assessments.

The globally operating Lab is led by the two Freshfields partners Gerrit Beckhaus and Lukas Treichl.

Lean more about Capital's Best of AI Award in the article “AI study: These are the AI pioneers of 2026” and the November issue of the magazine.