BERLIN and LONDON, 1 October 2026. Flank, the company behind AI agents that take on enterprise legal work under lawyer supervision, today announced The Orchestration Layer, its advisory board. The board brings together general counsel, legal operations leaders, contracting specialists and law-firm partners who run legal work at scale inside large organisations.

The board exists to keep Flank’s agents anchored in how legal work is actually done. Members bring first-hand experience of the volume, the edge cases and the trust bar that define enterprise legal, and they use it in three ways: shaping the product so that agentic systems fit the real needs of lawyers and the business people they serve; testing new capabilities before they reach customers; and opening and guiding partnerships with legal knowledge providers, enterprise software vendors and law firms.

The name reflects the members themselves. In every large organisation there is a layer of people who decide how legal work flows between the business, its lawyers and its systems. That layer, not the technology, determines whether AI agents deliver.

Founding members of The Orchestration Layer

  • James Donald, General Counsel MEA & APAC and Deputy General Counsel, Premium, Midscale & Economy Division, Accor

  • Sally Guyer, Global CEO, World Commerce & Contracting

  • Kent Dreadon, Partner, Positive Momentum (formerly Group GC, Ascential; Deputy GC, O2/Telefónica UK)

  • Stéphanie Hamon, Global Head of Legal External Engagement, HSBC

  • Lucy Shurwood, Partner, Simmons & Simmons

  • Suzanna Kalendzhian, SVP Strategy & Programme, LegalTechTalk

Further members will be announced over the coming weeks. The board meets in person twice a year and works with Flank’s product team between sessions on specific capabilities and use cases.

“There’s a gap between deploying legal AI and realising meaningful outcomes. The people on this board have delivered real outcomes at global enterprises, and we’re proud to be building Flank with them.”

Lili Breidenbach, CEO and co-founder of Flank

About Flank

Flank builds AI agents that take on enterprise legal work end to end, under lawyer supervision. Agents pick up routine work directly from the business, draft key documents and review contracts against the client’s own standards. Lawyers check the finished work and the high-risk moments; everything else runs without them.

Founded in Berlin in 2018, Flank works with enterprises and law firms including Accor, Simmons & Simmons, Axel Springer, the Financial Times, DeepL and Bolt, and is backed by Insight Partners, Gradient Ventures, HV Capital and 10x Founders. flank.ai

Media contact

Jake Jones · jake@flank.ai