Meet CompetitionAI, created by Clifford Chance, attorney Daniel Schwarz

CompetitionAI is a legal tech startup that launched in November 2023 as “ChatGPT for Competition Lawyers”. It is the brainchild of Daniel Schwarzcompetition lawyer at Clifford Chance, as well as AI software engineers Jonathan Halpern And André Davidson.

When a lawyer asks a question, the app uses AI to search for relevant information in thousands of pages of competition authority guidance, then generates an answer using only the information in the guidance, then shows the user the source so they can quickly check the answer. Since then, it has received more than 600 user registrations from over 100 law firms and 60 companies.

It now also includes competition law guidance for 10 jurisdictions. This follows the addition of Canada, Ireland, India, South Africa, Turkey and Nigeria to its existing database for the UK, EU, US and Australia.

Artificial Lawyer asked Schwarz to tell us a little more.

– How did it start?

After working for 10 years as a competition lawyer at Clifford Chance in London and the IMF in Washington DC, I became obsessed with AI when I realised we could use it to build software to supercharge competition lawyers. I teamed up with two brilliant AI software engineers, Jonathan Halpern and Andrew Davidson, and CompetitionAI was born. We launched in November 2023 and within the first 24 hours we had over 250 signups.

– What technology does it use?

When a user asks a question, they search through thousands of pages of guides to identify the relevant information in seconds. So we developed a sophisticated multi-stage software architecture to ensure we identify the right parts of the guides. We created the world’s first AI agent designed specifically for competition law research. We currently use the GPT4o model which is excellent, but we have updated the model several times to ensure we are using the most advanced AI models available.

– Where does the data come from?

We focus on guidance, cases and regulator decisions, but in the US we also use a playbook. We also generate some exclusive content, but it is not yet available.

– Where is it going?

With 10 years of experience in this field, we are focused on the needs of competition lawyers and are building a platform that reflects this experience. We are also currently raising funds to expand our team and meet the massive demand we are seeing.

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And there you have it, good luck to Schwarz and his team. The message is: have genAI and use it in the legal world, including competition law.