Prosus set its entire workforce a target of building 30,000 AI agents as part of its AI-first strategy, pushing all staff—including accountants, salespeople and lawyers—to experiment with AI. David Tudor, group general counsel at Prosus, built a regulatory scanner tool despite lacking a coding background, stating it 'absolutely transformed my view.' Gitte Groenewold-Wong, head of group legal at Prosus, emphasizes that 'it's not the tone at the top, it's behaviour—you need to walk the talk.' Senior lawyers learned to vibe code using AI tools like Claude Code, creating applications such as 'Who can sign what' to guide approval processes. The legal team of nearly 50 people built 298 agents shared on Prosus's AI platform, Toqan.

Repsol, winner of FT's 'Most innovative in-house legal team in Europe' award in 2026, transformed its almost 200-strong legal team by allocating 100 hours a year for programming and AI training. Pablo Blanco Pérez, general counsel since 2023, shifted the team's mindset from 'I do the work' to 'I design how work happens,' combining legal skills with expertise in process design, decision analytics and AI prompting. Remote, an international employment and payroll compliance business, trains lawyers in software engineering, enabling them to contribute code and legal advice to compliance software products.

Many legal teams featured in the 2026 FT Innovative Lawyers report for Europe are now using AI to build their own applications and agents. The value comes from achieving better analysis, quicker decision-making, and enhanced productivity across legal functions.