Looplex Partnership Program

Applies to partners who want to:

Develop digital legal content for their own use
Create and license legal engineering content
Foster new business opportunities and bring in new clients
Provide consulting services for third-party digital transformation projects
Integrate the Looplex platform with other legaltech applications and solutions
Use Looplex for academic, pro bono, or judiciary activities

Looplex is an open Computational Law platform. We built it to enable lawyers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts of this new world to (a) build their own solutions for personal use or to distribute in the market; (b) assist third parties (and make money doing so!) in digitally transforming their offices, businesses, and notaries; (c) integrate workflows with other applications or simply exchange data with other applications; and (d) study, help underprivileged communities, and participate in the digitization of the Judiciary and other government bodies.

To achieve this, we have created different programs and engagement models, with various monetization and business models.

We detail each of these here, with links to respective papers and contracts. These and other materials are licensed for use by all Looplex clients and partners under the rules contained in the Terms of Use for Lawtex Community legal engineers and developers, as well as respective contracts (Annexes to the Terms of Use).

Developing content for personal use

Any company, law firm, government body, or individual lawyer with a Looplex account can create their own digital legal content or hire consultants to do so. All clients can enable the development SDK to create or update their created content.

If you use this content within your own account, it will incur no additional cost beyond the basic processing cost included in your subscription. However, if you want to distribute and license this content to third parties, releasing the same templates in other accounts or directly on the Looplex Marketplace, you must follow the rules for third-party distribution or legal engineering services consulting, explained below.

Distribution to third parties (content licensing)

Any legal logic content can be distributed to third parties by licensing Templates or Template Components, written in Lawtex (code), as well as in low-code (Template Editor) or even no-code (Visual Editor).

This is a licensing of the Template as if it were an app, i.e., its compiled version, running on the Looplex platform. You do not open the source code of what you created to third parties, only the possibility of consuming the service for document creation, dashboards, or business flows associated with the system.

There are two distribution methods: (a) exclusive, for a specific group of your clients; or (b) non-exclusive, in this case through the Looplex Marketplace. The main difference is that in the non-exclusive option, you need to establish uniform rules for the general public: pricing, updates, support, etc., must be consistent for all clients. In the exclusive option, you can negotiate rules and pricing for your content on a case-by-case basis.

Template Licensing Methods (object code, runtime)

You set the price you want to charge clients each time they generate a document. Looplex may impose minimum (processing cost) or maximum price limits, but within general parameters, it is your decision how much to charge.

You can also charge a subscription price (monthly document package) and, if embedding special services within the Template, you can create specific prices for these services beyond document generation.

Client payments are made through the Looplex platform, which retains a fee of 15% to 30% of the value you set, similar to how other App Stores charge for distributing content in their online stores.

When you distribute content through the Looplex platform, you become a developer. See the developer agreement for applicable business rules and values.

You can also download our Legal Content Distribution Paper.

Intermediating new business and clients

Regardless of the content aspect, you can intermediate the sale of Looplex platform subscriptions. We want to commission you for this.

You can prospect clients for new business, follow up on the process, and receive compensation for closed deals. Any platform subscription or specific project services can generate commissions.

This intermediation is non-exclusive, has no geographical limitation, and for projects, depends on prior Looplex approval. It also presupposes that this is not your primary activity. If you want to become an exclusive Looplex distributor, you must expressly negotiate a specific distribution or commercial representation agreement.

The commission percentage, general conditions, and applicable intermediation rules can be read in the Partnership for System Sales and Intermediation Agreement.

Consulting on legal engineering projects

You can become an independent consultant offering legal architecture and engineering services, helping law firms and legal departments convert their know-how into a digital format.

You can present Looplex certifications to demonstrate your expertise in legal engineering to potential clients. In certain cases, you can collaborate on projects with support from Looplex’s internal legal engineering team. It’s essential to clarify to clients that your work is your responsibility and that you and your team are independent and not employed by Looplex.

You can charge any price for your work. The final result, if it involves code delivery, will follow the licensing and code assignment rules outlined in the Terms of Use:

Source Code Licensing Methods (when in Lawtex)

But consulting services are not limited to creating legal logic in code form. As a partner, you will have materials and support to offer services such as:

Curation and editing – content editorial review, visual law
Legal architecture – legal design, mapping, and documentation of operational flows
Legal engineering – converting client logic into Lawtex code
Online services – providing environments for online legal services by lawyers
Training and enablement – teaching architecture and engineering, forming squads

Your client, your rules, and your price. Restrictions only apply if you present yourself as a Looplex-certified consultant or partner. If you are hired through our Services Marketplace, commission fees may apply for the intermediation and matching done by Looplex.

See the general rules for engaging as a Looplex partner consultant in the Marketplace Participation Terms. Learn more on our Service Marketplace product page.

Integration with other applications

Partners can integrate Looplex platform functionalities directly into other applications or legal service portals. You can do this by consuming our web services. This is Looplex Inside.

Integration can occur using web components (Looplex interface elements embedded in other applications) or through consumption of our Integration API. Looplex can also access third-party services.

Check out our list of applications and services with native integration already available or contact the Looplex team to estimate the cost of developing this integration.

Academic, pro bono, and judiciary activities

Looplex has created an open innovation program to support law students, Looplex Academy students, pro bono institutions, members of the Judiciary, and startups.

This is a special partnership where subscription costs are reduced or even waived, but with limitations on platform usage. For example, those with an academic license cannot use what they create and generate there for commercial purposes.

You can read more details about the rules of special licenses in the Open Innovation Program Agreement (annexed to the Terms of Use). You can also download our Open Innovation Program Paper.