Pinoy startup says fragmented legal data holds back AI for PH law
A Filipino startup says fragmented legal data hinders AI applications in Philippine law, prompting them to build a proprietary legal database.Summary
Anycase.ai, a Filipino legal technology startup, argues that the main obstacle to applying artificial intelligence to Philippine law is not the AI models but the fragmented and unreliable legal data scattered across more than 150 government agencies. At OpenAI’s Founder Day in Singapore, co‑founder Gio Tiongson recalled CEO Beato Bongco explaining that the company built a proprietary "Legal Intelligence Layer" by directly collecting, digitizing, OCR‑processing, cleaning, and lawyer‑verifying legal documents from agencies, a process that can take weeks to months. The platform uses this high‑quality database with custom retrieval and reranking models, achieving up to 95% accuracy on Bar‑exam‑style evaluations and offering features such as legal issue identification, statute retrieval, remedy outlining, draft argument generation, and jurisprudence recommendations. Tiongson emphasized that the effort aims to show the Philippines can develop deep, local, domain‑specific AI rather than merely importing foreign software.
(Source：Newsbytes)