Why this company? Why Alizé?
Jul 15, 2025
A childhood friendship turned entrepreneurial venture
Alizé was born from the long‑standing friendship between Téo Verchère and Luis Pérez, who met as students at the European School of Kirchberg in Luxembourg. Years later, their bond evolved into an entrepreneurial project at the intersection of law and technology.
It all began when Téo did an internship at a law firm. There he discovered a problem both simple and fundamental: the difficulty of efficiently accessing Luxembourg case law. He tested early, off‑the‑shelf AI solutions like ChatGPT but quickly ran into two major limitations:
First, a lack of reliability, with frequent fabrication of non‑existent case law and other hallucinations;
Second, no way to guarantee confidentiality and security for sensitive legal data.
Confronted with these shortcomings, Téo reached out to Luis with a simple question: Could they build a truly powerful, secure tool, specifically tailored to Luxembourg law? A few months later, after intensive research, development, and data structuring, the first version of Alizé was launched.
A clear ambition: to become the go‑to legal AI in Luxembourg
Focusing Alizé exclusively on Luxembourg is no accident. Every legal system has its own sources, interpretive methods, courts, and customs. In such a context, any attempt at generalization inevitably leads to a loss of precision and effectiveness.
We believe that a legal AI can only excel if it is deeply rooted in a particular legal system. That demands:
Precise specialization,
Rigorous data structuring,
A profound understanding of national legal practice.
For this reason, Alizé’s mission is to become the reference legal AI in Luxembourg, for both private‑sector professionals and public institutions.
Our approach is not insular: Luxembourg law cannot be considered in isolation. It operates within a broader normative framework, shaped by:
The growing Europeanization of regulations,
The influence of international law
Doctrinal or jurisprudential affinities with other major systems (French, Belgian, German).
We therefore work from the body of positive law applicable in Luxembourg: national law, European Union law, and ratified international standards. We also methodically integrate relevant external influences, while maintaining a strict focus on the concrete needs of Luxembourg practitioners.
A consciously technological lens: AI in the service of productivity
We firmly believe in the transformative potential of artificial intelligence. But we are also aware that in its early years it often served merely as a marketing argument, without delivering real efficiency gains for professionals.
So we made a clear strategic choice: to put AI at the service of legal productivity.
Our ambition is threefold:
To save legal professionals real time,
To secure and validate their legal research,
To automate low‑added‑value tasks, while continuously improving our tool’s performance.
Two technological pillars underpin Alizé:
On one hand, the search power of our AI, specifically adapted to the subtleties of Luxembourg law;
On the other, the fine‑grained structuring of our database, without which no specialized legal AI can be reliable in a regulatory environment as complex as the law.
Why the name “Alizé”?
We chose the name Alizé for its symbolic resonance. The trade winds are steady breezes that, when they enter a region, profoundly alter its climate.
That is exactly what we aim to embody: a structural change, driven by artificial intelligence, within the Luxembourg legal landscape.
Just as the trade winds transform atmospheric conditions, our technology seeks to bring lasting change to key sectors, starting with the law.
Constant proximity to legal professionals
At Alizé, we place dialogue with our users at the heart of our strategy. Every week, we systematically gather their feedback to:
Improve our product,
Correct any inaccuracies,
And above all, integrate new legal sources often very specific to their practices, niche case law, sector‑specific doctrine, circulars, etc.
This active listening is incompatible with a globalized or one‑size‑fits‑all approach.
When Luxembourg represents only 1 or 2 % of an international player’s revenue, it simply isn’t a priority.
By contrast, at Alizé, Luxembourg is our sole field of action. This specialization allows us to offer a tool designed specifically for Luxembourg legal professionals.
