Building Benvolio: how Codezilla brought specialized AI into legal and tax work

Legal and tax professionals do not need generic answers, they need context, structure, traceability and reasoning they can review, challenge and defend.

This is the challenge behind Benvolio, the AI-powered legal & tax intelligence platform developed by Codezilla in collaboration with Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații and Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații Tax. The platform was officially launched in May 2026 and has already entered the public conversation around legal AI, tax intelligence, and the role of specialized technology in professional advisory work.

For Codezilla, Benvolio represents more than a product launch. It is an example of how technology, domain expertise, and product thinking can come together to build digital infrastructure for complex professional environments.

Why Benvolio is different from a generic AI tool

Many AI tools are designed to produce fast answers, but in legal and tax work, that is not enough.

A conclusion may influence a client's recommendation, a tax position, a compliance decision, a transaction, a dispute, or an internal governance process. In these contexts, professionals need to understand not only what an answer says, but how it was reached.

That is why Benvolio was designed around structured reasoning, jurisdictional context, and professional accountability. The platform is built to support legal and tax professionals in analyzing complex matters, reducing fragmented research, and working with outputs that can be assessed in real professional contexts.

This distinction shaped the entire product approach. Benvolio was not built as a general chatbot adapted to legal work. It was built as a specialized intelligence platform for domains where context and responsibility are essential.

Built through collaboration between technology and legal expertise

Benvolio was developed by Codezilla in collaboration with Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații, one of Romania’s leading law firms, and its tax division, Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații Tax.

This collaboration was essential because legal and tax intelligence cannot be built only from a technical perspective. The product needed to reflect how professionals' reason, review information, manage uncertainty, and defend conclusions.

From a technology standpoint, this meant designing a platform that could support structured analysis rather than simple output generation.

From a professional standpoint, it meant aligning the platform with the realities of legal and tax work: jurisdictional specificity, regulatory sensitivity, interpretation, document-based reasoning, and the need for human judgment.

The result is a platform that brings AI into the workflow without removing the professional from the decision.

From launch to media coverage

The launch of Benvolio quickly attracted attention across legal, business, and technology media.

The platform was covered by JURIDICE.ro, Profit.ro, Legal Marketing and other publications, with the conversation focusing on the emergence of a Romanian-built AI platform for legal and tax professionals.

Benvolio was also featured in a dedicated episode of “Legile Afacerilor”, broadcast on PRIMA NEWS TV, where Sebastian Doroftei, CEO Codezilla, and Alexandru Cristea, Tax Partner at Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații, discussed the platform and the broader transformation of legal and tax professions through specialized AI.

The discussion raised an important question: can Romania become a relevant regional and European player in legal-tech and specialized AI?

For Codezilla, this question is not only about technology. It is about the ability to build products that understand the needs of specific industries and create value beyond generic digitalization.

What building Benvolio taught us

Benvolio confirmed something we already believe at Codezilla: strong digital products are not built around technology alone. They are built around a real problem, a clear user context, and a deep understanding of the environment in which the product will be used.

In the case of Benvolio, that environment is complex. Legal and tax professionals work with sensitive information, high levels of responsibility, and conclusions that often need to be justified later. That required a product approach focused on:

• structure, not only speed.
• context, not only content.
• explainability, not only automation.
• collaboration, not only individual output.
• professional judgment, not replacement.

These principles influenced both the product architecture and the way Benvolio is positioned in the market.

A product built for a new stage of professional AI

Organizations are now asking more serious questions: where can AI be used responsibly, what should remain under human control, how can outputs be reviewed, and what kind of infrastructure is needed when decisions carry professional consequences?

Benvolio was built for this stage. It shows how AI can move from generic assistance to specialized intelligence, designed around the real needs of a professional domain.

For Codezilla, this is the kind of product development that matters: building digital platforms that are not only technically advanced, but also relevant, usable, and responsible in the environments they serve.

Beyond a launch moment

The launch of Benvolio is an important milestone, but the broader value lies in what it represents.

It shows that Romania can contribute to the development of specialized AI products for demanding professional industries. It also shows that the future of AI will not be defined only by general-purpose tools, but by platforms designed around specific contexts, workflows, and standards of responsibility.

Benvolio brings together legal expertise, tax knowledge, AI capabilities and product development into one specialized platform.