The hackathon focuses on real challenges faced in legal practice. Rather than starting with a predefined solution, teams are first asked to identify and clearly define a challenge faced by lawyers and legal teams in their day-to-day work and then design an AI-powered solution using SAGA platform and other tools.

⚖️ Challenge Approach: From Problem to Solution

Each team will:

1. Identify a real legal pain point
   Examples include inefficiencies, risks, repetitive tasks, lack of transparency, or decision-making challenges in legal work.

2. Define the problem clearly
   Teams are expected to articulate:

   • who the user is (lawyer, in-house counsel, compliance team, etc.),

   • where the problem occurs in the legal workflow, and

   • why current solutions are insufficient.

3. Design an AI-assisted legal solution
   Using the platform’s tools, teams will translate their problem into a structured, testable solution.

🧩 Tools You Will Use
Participants will build their solutions using:

• Legal workflows – structuring complex legal processes step by step

• AI assistants & agents – assigning roles and responsibilities to AI (e.g. reviewer, challenger, drafter)

• Grid reviews – structured extraction of key legal information from documents
  
  

🧠 Skills You Will Develop

• Prompt engineering for legal work – crafting precise instructions for different legal tasks and roles

• Process thinking – breaking down complex legal work into AI-assisted steps

• Responsible AI usage – understanding limits, risks, and verification strategies
  
  

No coding is required, the focus is on legal reasoning, process design, and responsible AI use.

🎯 What We’re Looking For

Teams will be evaluated on:

• clarity and relevance of the problem definition,

• how well the solution fits real legal workflows,

• effective and creative use of AI tools,

• transparency and reliability of the outputs, and

• overall practicality and impact.

Below, you will find extra information regarding the foundation of the competition. It will be useful to review this before you start working and before you have created a plan for how you intend to approach the task.

🏆 Award

The winning team will receive:

• €500 total cash prize (shared among up to 5 team members)

• One month of free access to the Saga platform for the entire team

Beyond the prize, this is a chance to continue building your solution on a professional legal AI platform and take your idea one step closer to the real world.