Partnership between Forlex, ST IT Cloud, and AWS Launches Latin America’s First Sovereign Infrastructure for Legal Intelligence

Brazil’s legal sector is undergoing a period of deep transformation, especially in the adoption of digital innovation.

According to the National Council of Justice (CNJ), 96% of all court cases now run in digital environments, creating unprecedented pressure for automation, governance, and efficiency.

Data from AB2L (2023) shows that the number of legaltechs has grown by more than 300% in just three years. While positive, this boom has created an ecosystem of disconnected tools. The result is an operational landscape marked by high costs, governance risks, and low standardization.

The legal market does not lack technology, it lacks integration and structural security. The proliferation of disconnected tools, fragile integrations, and inconsistent workflows increases risk, cost, and operational instability.

To overcome this bottleneck, Forlex, in partnership with AWS and ST IT Cloud, introduces a paradigm shift: the era of the “isolated tool” gives way to the unified platform.

The proposal is direct: the Brazilian legal sector does not need more tools — it needs integration, security, and scalability. And that is exactly what this trio intends to deliver.

A fast-growing legal sector, still held back by fragmentation

The evolution of Brazil’s electronic judicial system (PJe) and rapid digitalization have created unprecedented opportunities, but also a paradox.

Despite the expansion of legaltechs, the operational core of legal departments remains fragmented.

The main challenges include:

• Multiple systems that do not communicate with each other
• Lack of standardized workflows
• Risk of inconsistent documentation
• Low data governance
• Dependence on repetitive manual tasks

The bottleneck is not technical,  it is structural.

The legal market needs fewer isolated tools and more platforms capable of unifying automation, intelligence, and governance. This is the gap Forlex has emerged to fill with precision.

Forlex: orchestrating and redefining legal automation in Brazil

Forlex is a platform that inaugurates a new architecture for legal automation in the country.

It operates as an intelligent automation layer capable of orchestrating complex workflows, connecting systems, documents, regulations, and operational routines.

Its key differentiator is technical depth: the platform coordinates 13 specialized legal AI models, including a custom 235-billion-parameter model developed by Forlex, supported by 12 highly specialized smaller models.

This combination creates a calibrated intelligence layer tailored to legal, administrative, and governmental environments.

This holistic approach allows the platform to automate up to 70% of routine legal tasks, reducing rework, standardizing documentation, and freeing professionals for higher-value strategic work.

With flexible deployment options, including a sovereign solution where sensitive data remains entirely under the client’s internal control, or deployment in a VPC, the platform adapts to law firms, in-house legal departments, and public entities with strict privacy requirements.

Co-CEO Daniel Bichuetti emphasizes that legal intelligence must combine technical depth, security, and operational autonomy:

“Forlex was born from the vision that legal intelligence must unite technical depth and autonomy. It is a platform designed for the future of law in Brazil and around the world.”

With a projected capacity to serve 12% of Brazil’s entire legal market by the end of its first year, and offering free access to 30–40% of that audience, Forlex further expands its reach through a strategic partnership with the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), which recognizes it as the institution’s official Generative AI platform.

AWS: the foundation for security, sovereignty, and legal governance

To support this level of automation, Forlex operates on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) global infrastructure, known for its enterprise-grade security, auditing, and scalability standards.

Key technological pillars include:

• End-to-end advanced encryption
• Fully auditable governance and LGPD compliance
• Infrastructure designed for legal workloads and regulated environments
• High availability and operational resilience
• Technical foundation for national expansion and future internationalization

AWS is not just the environment, it is the global ecosystem that enables legal automation to operate securely and sustainably at corporate scale.

ST IT Cloud: the strategic bridge that makes the operation possible

Closing the chain, ST IT Cloud acts as the platform’s technical enabler, ensuring Forlex becomes fully operational, auditable, and scalable within the AWS ecosystem.

Its core contributions include:

• Full enablement of Forlex on the AWS Marketplace
• Architecture for mission-critical and high-availability environments
• Compliance for legal workloads
• Secure migration of sensitive databases
• Governance, testing, validation, and continuous operational pipelines

ST IT Cloud is currently recognized as a leader in the ISG AWS Ecosystem Partners 2024/2025 quadrant, reinforcing the project’s credibility.

Maurício Carvalho, CEO of ST IT Cloud, highlights:

“ST IT Cloud’s role is to ensure Forlex operates at the highest technical standard, with full enablement on the AWS Marketplace and complete compliance for regulated environments.”

For the first time, the Brazilian market receives a unified legal platform combining proprietary AI, autonomous automation, auditable architecture, and data sovereignty.

This is not “just another tool.” It is the infrastructure enabling structural transformation in the legal sector.

The future of legal intelligence: from automated workflows to structured governance

Legal automation is no longer a trend, it is becoming critical infrastructure sustaining legal departments, law firms, and public institutions.

The next steps include:

• Interoperability across national legal systems
• Data-driven governance
• Structural reduction of risk and rework
• Autonomous workflows connecting documents to decisions
• Large-scale operational standardization

In this context, Forlex goes beyond automation: it sets the foundation for a new model of legal operations.

A new era begins now

Brazil’s legal sector is at an inflection point. Digitalization has already happened, the challenge now is to unify, standardize, and scale.

By integrating proprietary legal intelligence, globally governed infrastructure, and specialized technical enablement, Forlex, AWS, and ST IT Cloud open a new chapter in legal modernization, one where automation is not an accessory but a structural component.

From now on, legal intelligence in Brazil and beyond is no longer fragmented. It becomes unified, scalable, sovereign, and ready for the future.

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