Machine learning · Specialized models · Legal technology
Bernima is a technology corporation focused on machine learning. We build AI products for legal teams and consumers, from our own smart models up.
01The company
We are a technology corporation focused on machine learning, and our differentiator is specialized models for legal workflows: smart models sized to the task, small enough to run on hardware a firm owns.
Our research measures them on legal work. Our engineering lets them run where the matter lives. Our products for legal teams are where both have to hold.
About Bernima
Legal work studied as a learning problem: the tasks it is made of, and how a model’s performance on each can be measured.
Smart models trained on the structure of legal work, each fitted to a task and evaluated against a known answer.
Running those models inside infrastructure the firm controls, with isolation, routing and a record built into the system.
Innovative technology products for legal teams and for consumers, beginning with Bernio OS and Bernio Chat.
02From research to products
Science is not a decoration on Bernima’s products. It is where the company starts, and every stage after it is held to the same standard of evidence.
Open questions about legal work as a learning problem: which tasks it is made of, and how a model's performance on each can be measured.
In Bernima’s workFive research areas, from legal language models to provenanceSmart models fitted to the tasks of legal workflows, each evaluated against a known answer rather than on fluency.
In Bernima’s workLegal language models and specialized task modelsThe architecture that lets those models run where the matter lives and behave predictably under professional obligations.
In Bernima’s workLocal-first inference, isolation before retrieval, a signed recordProducts for legal teams and for consumers, built for work where reliability is part of the specification.
In Bernima’s workBernio OS and Bernio Chat, for privileged legal work03Research
Bernima’s research is machine learning for legal work: training specialized models on the units legal work is made of, evaluating them on legal tasks rather than on fluency, and engineering how they run inside the infrastructure a firm controls.
Most legal AI is evaluated on fluency. Legal work is mostly structured: extracting a clause, coding a document, dating an event, checking a citation, clearing a conflict. Only a fraction of it is open-ended reasoning.
So the research starts from the task. Fit a model to each kind of work, then measure it on that work, against a known answer.
| Task | Model |
|---|---|
| Finding clause boundaries | Legal language model |
| Checking citation form | Legal language model |
| Coding a document | Specialized task model |
| Resolving entities | Specialized task model |
| Calculating a date | Specialized task model |
| Open-ended analysis | Frontier model, by policy |
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05Engineering
The discipline that governs the research governs the models and the systems around them: state what is known, measure what is claimed, and put guarantees where they cannot be quietly withdrawn.
Legal work is many tasks, not one conversation. Each is handled by the model built for it, and the choice is recorded.
A capability is a hypothesis until it has been measured on the task it is claimed for, against a known answer.
Our models run inside the boundary of the firm that relies on them. Anything that leaves is decided by policy and recorded.
Where a property matters, such as confidentiality, it is enforced by how the system is built rather than promised in a contract.
Our systems extend legal judgement. A qualified person approves what reaches a client and remains responsible for it.
06Products and technologies
Bernima builds innovative technology products for legal teams and for consumers. The first are built for legal work, where confidentiality, accountability and precision are obligations of the work. More products are in development.
Secure legal operating system
Bernio OS is a secure agentic operating system for legal work. It models the legal matter itself (its documents, chronology, strategy, approvals and record) and runs supervised agents inside it, on infrastructure the firm controls.
Secure chat for privileged work
Bernio Chat is a secure chat system for privileged work: a conversational interface for legal teams, whose material is confidential by obligation.
Further products, for legal teams and for consumers, are progressing through Bernima’s research and engineering, in these areas:
07Vision
To make capable AI usable for confidential legal work, without a firm having to hand over control of privileged material to get it.
Not one general model answering everything, but specialized models fitted to the tasks of legal work, each measured against a known answer. That is the know-how behind every product Bernima ships, and why those products are built to be accountable from the first matter.
08Contact
Bernima works with legal teams, researchers and technology partners who need AI they can rely on.
For law firms and legal departments evaluating Bernio OS or Bernio Chat.
Get in touchFor scientists and institutions working on machine learning for legal tasks.
Get in touchFor organisations interested in engineering and research collaboration.
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