About anwalt.de
anwalt.de services AG operates anwalt.de and Frag-einen-Anwalt.de, two of the most established legal platforms in the German-speaking market. The company connects consumers and businesses with qualified attorneys, publishes legal content at scale, and powers digital workflows for thousands of law firms.
The team is building a new generation of AI-assisted legal products: from automated case intake and document summarization to attorney-facing reasoning tools. Every workload must run inside the EU, under strict data protection rules, and stay compatible with the confidentiality expectations of regulated legal practice.
The Challenge
anwalt.de wanted to ship AI features fast without compromising on jurisdiction, cost control, or model choice. Going direct to each AI provider would have meant managing separate contracts, separate regional deployments, and separate billing for every model family the product needed.
- EU-only data residency, no exceptions. Legal content cannot leave EU regions, which rules out any default cloud routing that may fall back to US endpoints.
- Multi-provider by design. Different legal tasks need different models. Cheap, high-volume summarization. Deep reasoning for complex matters. Tool use for structured extraction. No single provider covers all three well.
- Cost predictability at scale. Token spend on frontier models can balloon overnight. The team needed hard guardrails on which workloads are allowed to hit the expensive models.
- Operational simplicity. One integration, one key, one analytics view. Not five SDKs, five dashboards, and five invoices.
“We needed an AI layer that respected EU rules by default and let us pick the right model per task without rewriting our stack every quarter. Requesty gave us both on day one.”