# Starling selects Wordsmith as the AI Platform for its in-house legal team | Wordsmith

> How Starling's legal team chose the platform to run a multi-specialist function inside a regulated bank.

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## Starling selects Wordsmith as the AI Platform for its in-house legal team

How Starling's legal team chose the platform to run a multi-specialist function inside a regulated bank.

![Starling chooses Wordsmith as the platform for their in-house legal function because of its ability to work with the rest of the business.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/fzjkft9j/production/4f1581b545a06f2676693a26310da306e2075bd2-1117x633.png?w=3840&fit=max&fm=webp&q=90)

Starling, one of the United Kingdom’s leading digital banks, has selected Wordsmith to support its in-house legal, regulatory affairs and data privacy function. The platform is deployed across its corporate, banking, commercial, disputes, regulatory affairs, data privacy, and employment teams, with self-service legal support extended across the business.

Three things decided it.

1. Wordsmith was built around the function, not a single use case. The team's playbooks, knowledge, and positions sit inside the system.
2. The work happens in Wordsmith. Other tools speed up an individual task and hand the result back. Wordsmith does the work in the system, where the team can see what was asked, who owned it, and what was delivered.
3. The security met the requirements of a regulated UK bank. No training on customer data, ring-fenced environment, full audit logs.

> "Starling is exactly what Wordsmith is built for. A multi-specialist team in a regulated environment needs the system that runs the function, not another tool that sits alongside it."

Ross McNairn, CEO, Wordsmith

> “Our priority was to find a platform that could support the legal function as a strategic partner to the business, not just automate isolated tasks. We needed technology that could integrate with our existing systems, scale across multiple legal disciplines, and meet the rigorous security and audit requirements of a regulated bank. After evaluating the market, we selected Wordsmith because it best aligned with those needs and our long-term vision for how legal technology should support Starling’s growth.”

Monica Risam, Group General Counsel, Starling

### **Wordsmith as the Choice for In-House Legal Matter Management**

Starling joins enterprise legal teams across financial services, retail, media, and life sciences that have chosen Wordsmith. The pattern is consistent: teams that evaluated the legal AI market concluded that point tools were not enough. They needed a system that ran the function.

Different industries. Same conclusion.

### **About Wordsmith**

Wordsmith is the AI platform for in-house legal departments. The platform gives legal teams the infrastructure to manage all their work in one place, covering intake, contracts, research, compliance, and governance, and to extend legal support across the business without adding headcount. Customers include the Financial Times, Next, Sage, Selfridges, Revolut, Canva, BT, and now Starling.

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