LawVu

Based in New Zealand; at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 as a speaker's company. Public facts only, each with its source.

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What they do	AI-powered legal operating system for in-house legal teams: matters, contracts, spend and legal operations.
Based in	New Zealand
At Web Summit as	a speaker's company
Confirmed for 2026	Yes: Sam Kidd (CEO and Co-Founder) is listed on the LIS26 session page 'Who takes the fall for autonomous AI?'
Website	lawvu.com
Filed under	Governance, risk and compliance

At the summit

14:25 Who takes the fall for autonomous AI? Tue 10 Nov, until 14:50 · Stage 4 · the session page names it (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0d8d5be9-0778-4aa5-833b-e112a669ecfa/who-, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator); Sam Kidd speaks (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0d8d5be9-0778-4aa5-833b-e112a669ecfa/who-, read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky) Our pick

People

People the summit's pages list under LawVu, by name, role and organisation only.

Sam Kidd, CEO and Co-Founder, as listed under "LawVu" (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0d8d5be9-0778-4aa5-833b-e112a669ecfa/who-, read 2026-11-04).

How we get from one company to the next: through an event both are at, or a field both are filed under. Each line says which.

Also filed under Governance, risk and compliance (14): 0xbow, Airia, Arima, Centre for AI Leadership (C4AIL), Contents, Crystal Intelligence, Data Protection Commission (Ireland), KPMG, LEGALFLY, Risiq GmbH, Scrut Automation, Sphere, TrustScale, Whitespace.

Our question for them

As for every company we follow, three questions, not claims. We have not asked LawVu yet. When they answer, it goes here.

Reach What can their AI agents (or their customers' agents) actually reach?
Mandate What were they authorised to do?
Gap Who controls the gap between the two?

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websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0d8d5be9-0778-4aa5-833b-e112a669ecfa/who-, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 session page (conferenceSlug lis26): 'Who takes the fall for autonomous AI?', 10 Nov, Future of Work Summit, Stage 4, names LawVu as the speaker's organisation.
websummit.com/attendees/lis26/086ed411-ba16-4da5-bb73-88542c7569ba/sam, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 attendee page: Sam Kidd, CEO and Co-Founder, LawVu; country and industry as listed by Web Summit; public bio.
lawvu.com/, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: what the company does, from its own site (title and description).

Re-checked by newsroom@web-summit.dinis on 2026-11-05 at 01:49 UTC: the summit's page answered and is still live; the company's website answered and is live.

Taken from the team's company map (data/companies.json on web-summit.sgit.ai), public facts only. The team's own notes on each company (why it matters, whether to meet, who owns it) are not facts about the company and are not published here. Something wrong? Tell us and we correct it on this page, dated.

The same, as data: companies/lawvu.json and its graph, graph/companies/lawvu.json (how to read them: the data, as JSON).

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