# Best Legal AI Agencies for Project-Based Work > 7 agencies. Top-ranked: Lexunit, Hiflylabs, Softblues. Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/industries/legal/for/project-based Generated: 2026-09-28 · Curated by Gabor Kiss · No paid placements — inclusion, score, and rank are never sold. ## Ranked roster 1. **Lexunit** — Budapest, Hungary · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2017 · services: AI Development, AI Automation, AI Consulting · 9 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-03 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/lexunit 2. **Hiflylabs** — Budapest, Hungary · rate not published · team 250+ · founded 2015 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation · 8 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-03 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/hiflylabs 3. **Softblues** — London, United Kingdom · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2014 · services: AI Automation, AI Agents, AI Consulting, AI Development · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/softblues 4. **Faculty** — London, United Kingdom · rate not published · founded 2014 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation, AI Agents · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/faculty-ai 5. **dida** — Berlin, Germany · €130-175/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2018 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/dida 6. **NextAI** — Valencia, Spain · €70-150/hr (agency-confirmed) · team 10-49 · founded 2022 · services: AI Consulting, AI Automation, AI Agents, AI Development · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-27 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/nextai 7. **WeAreBrain** — Amsterdam, Netherlands · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 50-249 · founded 2015 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting, AI Agents · 2 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-06 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/wearebrain ## Compared head-to-head Curated comparison pages (published rates, team size, coverage, projected 12-week engagement cost, and the curator's verdict on both sides — pairings are never sold): - dida vs Faculty: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/dida-vs-faculty-ai - dida vs Hiflylabs: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/dida-vs-hiflylabs - Faculty vs Hiflylabs: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/faculty-ai-vs-hiflylabs ## About this market The documented legal work on this page comes from WeAreBrain, Faculty, Hiflylabs and Lexunit. WeAreBrain's AI implementation for the Dutch law firm Pulsr is published as halving research time and moving lawyer capacity from document analysis to client work, delivered through the three-phase project framework the firm uses across its builds. Faculty built Axiom Law an LLM-integrated recommender that matches lawyers to projects; 25% of Axiom's hires now come through the system and shortlists take three minutes. Hiflylabs deployed NLP classification, segmentation and extraction models built on spaCy, BERT and HuggingFace into Catylex's contract-analytics pipeline, with a named testimonial from Catylex's CEO, and Lexunit built Wolters Kluwer Hungary an internal tool that crawls, classifies and ranks web articles on legislation changes, in a case study dated 2023. Softblues, dida and NextAI carry the legal tag on method rather than on a published legal client: dida's project index covers document understanding, Softblues builds agent pipelines and voice agents, and NextAI names the Valencia law firm De La Guía y Luzón on its about page with no published engagement behind the name. For a law firm or legal-services business buying a scoped project, the sorting question is what the project proves about confidentiality and accuracy before it touches live matters. A research or matching tool is only useful if lawyers trust its output, so ask how accuracy was measured against a lawyer's own work, where client documents were processed and retained, and what evaluation set the project handed over. Ask also who measured the Pulsr and Axiom results, the client or the vendor, since neither published case sets out its method. ## Questions buyers ask ### How many AI agencies work with project-based on legal? 7 agencies in our directory combine verified project-based client evidence with documented Legal work. The current top-ranked are Lexunit, Hiflylabs, Softblues — ordered by depth of documented client evidence, then our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, credibility, completeness); placement is never paid. ### How much does an AI agency cost for legal? Published rates across this page's agencies run €45–175 per hour (median ~€65). Project totals depend on scope — the rate index at /rates breaks the computed bands down by region, country and team size. ### How is the project-based model verified? Every agency here documents project-based work on its own site or in a published case study, describing the engagement structure rather than a service-list claim. We never infer the model from portfolio tone, so this list only contains agencies that operate project-based engagements deliberately. ### Can these agencies embed consultants with our team? 3 of the agencies on this page document an embedded / team-extension working model. See the team-extension page for the full verified list, or check the engagement chips on individual profiles. --- Source: AIAgencies.eu — the curated register of European AI agencies. Rate provenance: "agency-confirmed" = disclosed via submission or claimed profile; "directory-listed" = Clutch or two agreeing B2B directories (lone unverified sources are never written). Full method: https://www.aiagencies.eu/methodology · Rate index: https://www.aiagencies.eu/rates