About Xakia
(Updated May 2026)
At Xakia, we believe that all in-house legal teams - regardless of size - should have access to simple and cost-effective matter management tools. In-house legal matter management software should be available across the entire legal ecosystem to help streamline and automate legal processes and increase efficiency and productivity amid growing responsibilities.
Xakia was created by Jodie Baker in 2016 in response to a widespread research project to understand daily demands on in-house legal team management. A comprehensive list of in-house needs specifically around legal matter management led to the building of Xakia and continues to inform the user-designed approach to its functionality.
What is Xakia?
Xakia is a simple, powerful and affordable in-house legal software. In one user interface, Xakia combines all of the essential tools required by General Counsel and their legal teams to deliver efficient and effective solutions to their business clients.
Xakia is a solution that brings together matter management, contract management, spend management, legal intake, automation & AI, entity management and legal data analytics... without breaking the budget.
Xakia scales perfectly for very small teams through to very large teams.
Legal matter management that is loved
Xakia was built with a pure focus on legal in-house needs and remains the core driver: to build beautiful matter management software for corporate legal departments.
We're proud to have received an enormous number of awards over the past decade, including Theorem's Spring 2026 Highest Rated Legal Software, named as one of the 19 Representative Vendors listed in the 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Corporate Legal Matter Management, a 2022 Legal Technology Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and named as an Excellence Awardee in the Legal Service Provider of the Year category for the Australasian Law Awards 2022.
Xakia regularly frequents industry awards and is much loved by a loyal customer base.
About Jodie Baker, Founder & CEO of Xakia
Founder & CEO Jodie Baker draws on her own experience as an in-house lawyer and drives the vision of giving corporate legal departments the legal matter management tools they need to improve visibility, reporting, and efficiency improvements.
Jodie is an innovator and business builder who founded Xakia to solve a gap in the market for simple, powerful and affordable in-house legal software.
Xakia has many hundreds of clients across the globe, and it is a female-led company, with headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, Kansas City, USA and London, UK.
Xakia/Zakia (Ză: ki: äh)
Sakia is the name of an ancient water wheel capable of considerable efficiency in collecting and distributing water.
In-house legal teams, akin to a sakia water wheel, must collect information, requirements and risk, process them through a funnel of knowledge and experience and dispense solutions in the most efficient manner possible.
Legal resources are often spread extremely thin but must ensure all parts of an organization are considered in the application of skill when delivering solutions.
In an ever-expanding regulatory landscape, legal departments must constantly find new, inventive ways to address the demand on their time.
Xakia informs legal team decisions
Empowered with simple, clear legal department intelligence (aka. legal data analytics), in-house legal teams now have the capacity to understand their legal function and instantly identify opportunities for efficiency gains and productivity improvements.
Implementing efficiencies leaves room for further understanding and identification of the next opportunity to optimize your team. And so, the circle of efficiency loops and continuous improvement begins to turn - just like a water wheel.
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