Sparke Helmore has gone and built its own tech company.

The Aussie law firm has partnered with technology services outfit Adaca to launch Trivity, a new venture delivering “legally assured” AI and digital transformation tools to government agencies and highly regulated industries.

Trivity, the name, blends together “trust” and “productivity”.

The pitch is simple. Government and regulated clients are drowning in high-volume, repetitive, manual work. Trivity targets that work without falling foul of legal, policy or cyber obligations along the way.

Co-founders Karwan Eskerie, a Sparke Helmore government partner, and AI expert Lambros Photios will run the show as directors.

Eskerie said, “Digital systems need to be lawful, fair, secure, and well governed, while delivering the productivity gains they promise at scale.”

“They must also be value-for-money and capable of timely deploying. Helping Australian governments and highly regulated organisations deploy solutions that support lawful and effective decision making is Trivity’s singular mission.”

The tech itself comes courtesy of Adaca’s 100-plus engineers, who’ve already built systems for governments here and overseas, plus corporate heavyweights ANZ and Qantas.

Data sovereignty is a key selling point. All services are Australian-hosted, addressing what Sparke Helmore and Adaca call a “major legal and cyber security risk” in AI deployment.

Photios said government clients are under pressure to do more with less.

“Government agencies are seriously pursuing AI and digital transformation projects to improve productivity, but it’s a daunting and perilous task,” he said.

“They know the potential risks to critical services and public data when deploying new technology, but cannot afford to ignore the potential upsides.” Photios said Trivity offers a path to safe AI implementation and digital transformation, “to help them realise the benefits of the AI era”.

Sparke Helmore now runs 1,000 staff across 10 Australian offices, and, as of this week, its own AI company.

It joins a growing list. Thomsons recently spun out its own AI-powered practice, Faculti Lawyers, built around proprietary platform Fai.

Law firms building their own tech, rather than just buying it, is starting to look like a trend.

Source: Lawyers Weekly, Trivity