Moonlit.ai

What Moonlit.ai does

Moonlit.ai is a legal technology company headquartered in Amsterdam that operates a structured legal data platform covering 30+ European jurisdictions. Founded in 2024 as a spin-out from Deloitte with Curiosity VC backing, the company aggregates official legal sources through 110+ portals to deliver 15M+ documents and a proprietary Reference Graph of 32M+ citations connecting statutes, regulations and case law. The platform combines a research interface featuring the Luna AI assistant for legal professionals, government entities and academics with a second distribution surface — Moonlit Connect — that exposes the same data layer through a REST Data API and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for legal AI builders and Anthropic Claude users.

The product portfolio spans the core Moonlit Platform (search, Horizon Scanning, Contract Review, Drafting Assistant, Compliance Monitoring, Collaboration Hub), Workspaces and Monitors rebuilt as Lightspeed in April 2026 with a claimed 25x performance improvement, and the Moonlit Connect API/MCP layer launched in May 2026. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and GDPR-compliant EU hosting on Microsoft Azure support enterprise and public-sector procurement requirements.

Monetization combines a freemium consumer funnel (free tier, €150/month Premium, €7/month Academic), enterprise contracts with team workspaces and SSO, per-seat MCP subscriptions (€40-79/user/month), and usage-based Data API billing. The customer base of 7,000+ users includes Big Four firms (KPMG, Deloitte), Dutch judicial and prosecutorial bodies (Hoge Raad, Openbaar Ministerie), regulators (De Nederlandsche Bank, Belastingdienst), academic institutions (Utrecht, VU Amsterdam, UGent), and legal AI platforms (Saga, Eudia, Legal Mind, Quantoz Payments). The company is currently raising its next funding round.

Name

Moonlit.ai

Legal name

Moonlit Legal Technologies B.V.

Website

https://moonlit.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Moonlit.ai is an Amsterdam-based legal technology company providing structured legal data across 30+ European jurisdictions through a research platform and an API/MCP access layer for legal AI builders, serving judges, lawyers, enterprises, governments, and academics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Technology / Legal Research Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• Legal research platform
• Legal data API
• Regulatory monitoring
• Cross-border legal intelligence
• Legal AI infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscriptions: Tiered subscription model with Free, Premium (€150/month), and Enterprise tiers. Monthly billing with annual options. Academic pricing at €7/month for students and universities.
2. MCP Server Subscriptions: Seat-based MCP Server subscriptions at €40-79/user/month based on call volume tiers (Standard: €49 for 0-500 calls, Pro: €79 for 501-1000 calls). Monthly billing with 7-day free trial.
3. Data API: Usage-based bucket model for API call volume, sized against product usage and jurisdictions in scope. Custom enterprise pricing on request.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Moonlit.ai operates a SaaS legal data platform that aggregates official statutes, regulations, and case law from 30+ European jurisdictions into a unified, searchable corpus of 15M+ documents and 32M+ legal references, accessed via a web application or REST/MCP API. The platform delivers AI-powered legal research through the Luna assistant, Horizon Scanning for regulatory change monitoring, Workspaces for team collaboration, Monitors for automated alerts, and Contract Review with risk detection. Moonlit Connect extends the platform with structured data APIs for engineering teams building legal AI products and an MCP server for natural language legal queries inside Claude.

Product overview

Moonlit.ai is a legal technology platform providing a unified product portfolio for global legal intelligence. The core offering is the Moonlit Platform for legal research and data access, enhanced by AI assistant Luna (Premium tier), and rebuilt Workspaces/Monitors under the Lightspeed brand. Moonlit Connect extends the platform via two API access modes: a REST Data API for engineering teams building legal AI products, and an MCP Server for natural language access via Claude. Additional offerings include Moonlit Academy (learning), the Academic Program (€7/month for students), and enterprise Integrations with tools like SignFlow and CalendarLink. The platform aggregates legal data from 30+ European jurisdictions, 110+ portals, and 1000+ sources covering 15M+ documents with 32M+ legal references.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Moonlit Platform The primary SaaS legal research and data platform providing search and analysis of legal information across 30+ European jurisdictions. Includes Platform search, Horizon Scanning, Contract Review with AI, Drafting Assistant, Compliance Monitoring, Collaboration Hub, Workspaces, and Monitors for individual legal professionals and enterprise teams.
• Luna AI Assistant AI-powered legal research assistant providing natural language research capabilities with inline citations to source documents. Available in Premium tier; Luna API provides programmatic access with SSE streaming for embedding into custom applications. For legal professionals and legal AI builders.
• Moonlit Connect (Data API) REST API access layer for the Moonlit Data Layer, designed for engineering teams building legal AI products. Provides structured interface with consistent schemas across all 30 jurisdictions, version-aware responses, and reference graph as first-class objects. Supports keyword search, semantic search, hybrid search with reranking, document retrieval, article-level retrieval, reference search, CELEX conversion, and filter endpoints.
• Moonlit Connect (MCP Server) Model Context Protocol server for legal teams using Claude or any MCP-compatible client. Provides natural language access to the Data Layer with citations back to source on every answer. Plugs into Claude.ai, Claude Code, or Claude Desktop via OAuth 2.1 authentication. Priced at €40/user/month flat.
• Moonlit Academy Self-paced learning platform teaching users how to use Moonlit features including login & navigation, effective searching, analyzing documents at scale, monitoring legal developments, advanced searching, analyzing single documents, and asking research questions. For legal professionals, students, and researchers adopting the Moonlit platform.
• Moonlit Academic Program Academic access program providing premium European legal corpus access for €7/month. Requires student or university email registration. No codes required. For law students and academic researchers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 25x faster research with Lightspeed rebuild of Workspaces and Monitors
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Legal MindcoreTechnology or Integration · 5 June 2026Legal Mind users now have direct access to Moonlit's legal data inside their platform. The integration allows Legal Mind to move further from standalone tools toward a single platform that helps lawyers work faster and more effectively.
• EudiacoreTechnology or Integration · 28 May 2026Eudia builds Expert Digital Twins for legal and business teams at large enterprises. They integrated Moonlit Connect to expand from US-only coverage to full European legal data. Moonlit's Data API gave Eudia a complete European corpus in days, covering 13M+ documents across 28 European jurisdictions through one API key.
• SagacoreTechnology or Integration · 5 February 2026Saga, a legal AI platform serving enterprise law firms across Europe, partnered with Moonlit to integrate legal databases and AI capabilities across 28 jurisdictions. The partnership enhances legal research, cross-border monitoring, drafting, and legal decision-making through enriched legal data. Saga uses Moonlit Data API as its legal knowledge layer for retrieval, citation traversal, and document lookups.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• CaseText (now part of Thomson Reuters): AI-native legal research platform acquired by Thomson Reuters; comparable AI-first research UX. Now sits inside Westlaw's product suite, representing the incumbent AI-augmented research strategy Moonlit competes with.
• LexisNexis: Global incumbent in legal research and regulatory intelligence with deep EU coverage, Lexis+ AI features, and substantially larger enterprise footprint. Competes on breadth and brand; Moonlit's customer page notably features LexisNexis among its users.
• Westlaw (Thomson Reuters): Premier legal research platform with CoCounsel AI and extensive European content. Comparable end-user proposition (cross-jurisdictional legal research with AI), much larger scale and resources.
• Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory: Major European legal content and compliance platform with AI-enabled research tools. Overlaps on regulatory intelligence and compliance monitoring use cases that Moonlit's Monitors and Horizon Scanning address.

Regional players

• Jus Mundi: International arbitration and public international law data platform with AI features. Comparable on cross-border legal data for specialized practice, but narrower domain focus than Moonlit's generalist coverage.

Emerging players

• Eudia: Builds Expert Digital Twins for legal and business teams; uses Moonlit Connect to expand from US-only to European coverage. Comparable on AI-augmented legal workflows but relies on Moonlit as data layer rather than competing with it.
• Spellbook: Legal AI assistant focused on contract drafting and review for transactional lawyers. Comparable AI-for-lawyers positioning, but narrow contract focus vs. Moonlit's broad cross-jurisdictional research scope.
• Harvey AI: Legal AI assistant for elite law firms with strong enterprise distribution. Comparable on AI-driven legal research use case for professionals, though currently with a different primary distribution model (DTC to firms vs. data infrastructure).

Direct peers

• vLex: Global legal data platform with cross-jurisdictional coverage and AI-powered research (Vincent AI). Closest direct competitor to Moonlit in providing unified legal data across multiple jurisdictions with an integrated AI research layer.
• Saga (Legal AI): European legal AI platform serving enterprise law firms across 28 jurisdictions; integrated Moonlit Data API as its legal knowledge layer. Comparable on cross-border coverage and AI-native research, but positioned as a workflow product rather than data infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/moonlit-ai

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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