CodeLex is a Mongolian legal tech startup (founded 2018, based in Ulaanbaatar with offices in Singapore and Tokyo) that created Lexub, a lawyer-to-lawyer legal document marketplace. Lexub lets lawyers publish, license, and purchase precedent documents from other lawyers across jurisdictions — positioning itself as ‘eBay for legal documents.’ CodeLex also develops iGeree, an NLP-trained chatbot for employment law, and Codelex contract automation tools. Participated in LawTech 2026 Q1 elevator pitch contest, suggesting the company is still active. Very early stage: ~7 employees, no disclosed funding, ~20% of Mongolian target market claimed (2019). Covered by AsiaLawPortal, AsiaTechDaily, and Legal Business Online. Zero Reddit presence in any legal tech community. Named as one of ‘6 Countries to Watch in Legal Tech’ by ALM Legal Tech News (Dec 2019, Mongolia section). The ‘codelex’ brand has significant name collision with Latvian and Chilean companies of the same name.
Company Info
- Founded: 2018
- Team size: 1-10 employees
- HQ: Singapore
- Sector: Legal Research
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Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, CodeLex is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems CodeLex addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Small firm creates the same lease, will, motion to dismiss, or discovery request from scratch every time — no forms library, no document automation, and setting up templates in most PM tools requires a consultant
Legal research costs $400-600/hour in associate time and takes hours of manual digging — searching Westlaw/Lexis, reading irrelevant results, synthesizing case law. Clients increasingly refuse to pay for research hours on invoices. AI can compress a 4-hour research memo into 20 minutes, but most firms have no approved tool
Cross-border deal team needs to research how a specific regulatory issue is treated under UK, EU, and Singapore law simultaneously — but each jurisdiction's primary law lives in a different database, case law formats differ, and no single platform covers all three with AI-assisted comparative analysis
European lawyers working in civil law jurisdictions need AI-powered research but every leading tool is built for US/UK common law — the legal reasoning is different, the source hierarchies are different, and the tools don't understand local codes, doctrine, or case law traditions
Where it fits in your workflow
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