MANZ-Noxtua: Europe's Legal AI for Austria

Cooperation between AI company Noxtua and Austria's leading legal publishing house MANZ

Europe's legally compliant and legally competent sovereign Legal AI
Noxtua expands into Austria in a strategic partnership
MANZ-Noxtua combines exclusive legal data from MANZ Publishing with AI expertise from Noxtua
The AI scaleup is already developing the legal AI Beck-Noxtua in a strategic partnership with Germany's leading legal publisher C.H.Beck

VIENNA/BERLIN, October 8, 2025 – Austrian legal publisher MANZ and European legal tech company Noxtua will launch MANZ-Noxtua, a new Legal AI workspace. The aim is to offer legal practitioners, institutions, and companies a forward-looking solution: A platform that integrates legal content, providing access to curated specialist information from a single source.

Combining expertise from tradition and innovation

For more than 175 years, MANZ has been driving innovation in the Austrian legal market – from Austria's first legal database (RDB) in 1986 to the introduction of Genjus AI in 2025. With MANZ-Noxtua, the publisher is continuing this tradition and consciously pursuing a European approach: through cooperation with Noxtua, it is bringing together specialist information from various publishers on a single platform, thereby fundamentally increasing the efficiency of legal work.

Noxtua, an AI company founded in 2017 based on research conducted at Oxford University and Imperial College London, is also pursuing a clear European vision with its initiative to develop Legal AI in collaboration with leading European publishers: digital sovereignty through cooperation rather than isolated solutions. To this end, Noxtua is integrating content from MANZ and C.H.Beck, two of the most important German-language specialist publishers, into the MANZ-Noxtua and Beck-Noxtua product versions, which are intended to be usable in combination in the future. For legal practitioners, this means that they can integrate specialist legal information directly into their daily workflows and make them more efficient. Legal research, analysis, and document creation will in future take place in a consistent workspace instead of across many separate systems – and will also be available for use across countries on a single platform.

Complete, multi-level AI system combined with European sovereignty

Unlike generic AI models, MANZ-Noxtua is a complete AI system specializing in legal content, consisting of its own sovereign infrastructure, a proprietary language model (LLM) developed specifically for lawyers, curated data, and a user-centered application. This means that legal practitioners can be sure that technical terms are interpreted correctly and that the results meet legal requirements. In practice, this means:

Higher quality answers, more precise wording, and legally consistent arguments.
Independence from non-European providers, as the technology is developed and operated independently in Europe.
Domain understanding that significantly increases reliability and acceptance in everyday legal practice.

MANZ-Noxtua is thus positioning itself not only as a technological innovation, but also as a strategic response to the question of Europe's digital self-determination.

New target groups and applications

In addition to traditional legal practitioners, MANZ-Noxtua also opens up new opportunities in the institutional sector and in companies. By integrating the Legal AI Workspace into existing workflows, legal issues can be reviewed and processed directly in the work process.

Users benefit from:

Legal research in natural language with access to specialist literature, case law, and legislation.
Document analysis with automatic evaluation of large amounts of data (including matrix analyses of large document volumes).
Document creation of briefs, contracts, and memos.
Templates and workflows for standard tasks.
Integration of your own documents via connectors.

All data is processed in compliance with the GDPR. The system meets the high requirements for confidentiality, professional secrecy, and data security and also complies with the official Austrian guidelines for practising the legal profession (Section 40 (3) RL-BA 2015).

Strong partnership for secure, sovereign, and specialized Legal AI

"For more than 175 years, we at MANZ have been committed to strengthening the rule of law with reliable information. In Noxtua, we have a partner that combines technological expertise with a clear commitment to European values," emphasizes Mag. Susanne Stein-Pressl (Managing Partner at MANZ).

"We are proud to have gained a strong partner in MANZ in an important European jurisdiction. This underscores the path we have chosen for our expansion strategy and our goal of developing powerful AI based on European values such as data protection, transparency, and the rule of law. With MANZ-Noxtua, we are setting the next milestone after Beck-Noxtua to build a truly European alternative to existing providers," explains Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk (CEO & Co-Founder Noxtua).

MANZ-Noxtua soon available

MANZ-Noxtua is distributed exclusively by MANZ in Austria and will be available soon. Interested parties can already sign up for the waiting list: www.manz.at/manz-noxtua

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About Noxtua

Noxtua is Europe's sovereign Legal AI. This legally competent AI covers the entire spectrum of legal work – from information gathering (research) and analysis of complex issues (understanding) to document creation (drafting). The legally compliant AI meets the professional, criminal, and data protection requirements for lawyers (Section 203 German Criminal Code, Section 43e German Federal Code for Lawyers), is certified according to BSI C5, ISO 27001, 9001, 27018, 27017, and is also the first German company to be certified according to ISO 42001. Noxtua has formed exclusive partnerships with leading publishing houses to develop the Legal AI Workspaces Beck-Noxtua and MANZ-Noxtua.

Founded in 2017 in the German capital as a result of a research project by Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Dr. Michael Huth at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the legal tech company has many years of experience in developing GDPR-compliant AI solutions and now has offices in Berlin, Paris, Zagreb, and Munich. Strategic partners including Germany’s leading legal publisher C.H.Beck, the High-Performance Computing specialist Northern Data, Germany’s largest business law firm and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua CMS, as well as Dentons as one of the world’s largest law firms, have invested in the German scale-up as part of its Series B funding round – with a total of € 80.7 million Europe's largest investment round for Legal AI.

About MANZ

MANZ Publishing and University Bookstore was founded in Vienna in 1849 and is one of Austria's leading specialist publishers. As an independent, family-run publishing house, MANZ offers a comprehensive range of specialist books, journals, databases, and digital applications for legal and tax professionals. With its pioneering RDB (legal database) and its latest innovation, Genjus AI, MANZ is playing a key role in driving forward the digitization of legal information in Austria.