A Law Firm Billed Him £15,000. His AI Did It in 2 Minutes. Xavier - GC at OneAdvanced

A law firm charged Xavier £15,000 for half a page of legal advice. He ran the exact same question through an AI tool, got the same answer in two minutes – then negotiated the bill down to £2,000. Xavier is General Counsel at OneAdvanced, and instead of treating AI as a threat, he turned his 30-person legal team into an AI lab: he declared an "AI adoption month," ran a two-day "legathon," and shipped 15+ AI agents in 10 days. This is one of the most practical conversations on AI in legal we've had on The AI Floor. In this episode you'll learn: → How to spot which legal work AI should (and absolutely shouldn't) touch → Why building legal AI in-house usually fails – and when buying wins instead → How a £50,000 due-diligence review got done in 20 minutes at 98% accuracy → What junior lawyers must do now as entry-level work gets automated → The real cost nobody talks about: cognitive overload from instant AI output → The one legal tool no founder has built yet – and X says he'd buy it tomorrow Chapters: 0:00 The lawyer who builds his own AI agents 1:19 Why I declared an "AI adoption month" 3:19 The legathon: 15 agents in 10 days 7:57 Build vs buy: why we didn't build it ourselves 10:51 Where AI fits – and where it doesn't 14:00 How to actually learn AI (start here) 20:14 Will AI take legal jobs? An honest answer 24:45 What junior lawyers should do now 29:04 The hidden cost: AI overload and burnout 33:31 The £15,000 bill AI did in 2 minutes 39:05 £50,000 due diligence, done in 20 minutes 43:36 Where we really are on the adoption curve 46:50 The legal tool nobody has built yet 👇 CONNECT WITH XAVIER LANGLOIS Xavier Langlois ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-langlois-3860654b/ OneAdvanced ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/one-advanced/ 👇 CONNECT WITH SHAMIL Shamil Malachiyev ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/shamilmalachiyev/ FluidLabs ► https://fluidlabs.com/ 🎙 LISTEN to The AI Floor (The Founder's Code, Season 2) Spotify ► https://open.spotify.com/show/7v6YOQ7... Apple ► https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more unfiltered, ground-level conversations with the people building AI inside the world's biggest companies. ABOUT THIS CHANNEL The AI Floor (The Founder's Code, Season 2) - honest, ground-level conversations with the people actually building AI inside the world's biggest companies. No hype, just what's real. #LegalAI #LegalTech #FutureOfLaw #GeneralCounsel #AIadoption #AIAgents #EnterpriseAI #AI #TheAIFloor #LarryJin #ContractAI #ProductManagement #Podcast