From Lawyer Marketplace to Legal AI with HAQQ
HAQQ pivots from lawyer marketplace to AI legal platform for Arabic civil law, serving 15,000+ firms across 80 countries.Summary
HAQQ, founded by Antoine Kanaan, transitioned from a lawyer marketplace to an AI legal platform built specifically for Arabic and civil law systems across the MENA region. The platform integrates leading LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) with a proprietary in-house intelligence layer that handles jurisdictional identification, source verification, and legal reasoning, emphasizing reliability over hallucination. HAQQ serves over 15,000 law firms in 80+ countries, with 80% of new users being non-lawyers seeking direct legal answers. The company holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR certifications, reports $1.5M in live SaaS revenue and a $235M pipeline, and positions itself as a software provider replacing uncertainty, not lawyers.
(Source：Inside Telecom)