Source: Yahoo Finance UK

Most AI companies license intelligence to independent professionals; an emerging category combines the software, the employed professionals and the contractual service inside one firm, creating an "AI-native service firm" that sells an outcome rather than a software license. Lightbringer, a Swedish example, describes itself as a "full-stack service firm" that owns its platform, employs patent attorneys and contracts directly with companies seeking patent protection, so customers buy an integrated provider's service instead of separate software plus counsel. The firm uses its AI to decompose patent work into discrete decisions — identify claim components, compare each to prior art and test novelty — and says named, qualified attorneys prepare, review and file each application, with European filings handled by European or nationally qualified attorneys and US filings by US-registered practitioners.

Professional rules, including the American Bar Association's Formal Opinion 512 and USPTO guidance, preserve core lawyer duties such as competence, confidentiality and supervision when generative AI is used; Lightbringer says its attorneys review AI output and retain professional responsibility. The company also says professional indemnity cover exists, and its standard terms limit liability while enterprise clients negotiate bespoke terms. Insurance specifics are not public in the available record, and the article stresses that Lightbringer has demonstrated the model's feasibility but has not shown it produces better legal outcomes or that it bears economic loss from AI-caused errors more fully than an ordinary firm; the available information cannot show how a disputed AI error would be classified, covered or allocated in a particular case.