Roderick Lucas, Co-Founder and CEO of Moonlit – Interview Series

Roderick Lucas is Co-Founder and CEO of Moonlit, bringing experience in artificial intelligence, data science, and legal technology. He spent nearly a decade at Deloitte, where he served as Artificial Intelligence Lead, and has taught technology courses at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tilburg University. His work focuses on making legal research more accessible through structured data, verifiable sources, and AI.

Moonlit provides legal data infrastructure and research tools that connect official legislation, court decisions, and regulatory information across European jurisdictions. Its platform, Data API, and MCP server give researchers and AI assistants access to structured legal sources, while its Commentaries library combines AI-generated analysis with review by named legal experts. In this interview, Lucas discusses legal hallucinations, cross-border research, expert verification, and access to trustworthy legal intelligence.

You spent nearly a decade at Deloitte, eventually serving as Artificial Intelligence Lead, while also teaching technology courses at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tilburg University. Moonlit originally emerged as an internal project at Deloitte before becoming an independent company in 2024. What inspired you to develop the platform, and what convinced you that…