AI for Good
Lawyers as builders.
Open source. Open records. Free tools. Free law.
The Premise
Most days the problem isn't bad law. It's a missing tool. A rule that works fine but takes a spreadsheet nobody has. A guideline anyone could follow if anyone could compute it. Lawyers see these problems first and know them best. Until now, seeing the problem and building the fix were different careers. They aren't anymore.
Built from one small practice
There are a thousand more of these. That is the point.
It's all in the approach
Inside-out design. The person closest to the problem designs the tool.
- Study the problem.
- Break it down.
- Keep it simple.
- Make it work.
Where this goes
This belongs in law school. An experiential course where students take one real problem, build one free tool, and learn the thing that actually matters — what makes a machine's output trustworthy enough to rely on. Conversations are underway.
Bring a problem.
Lawyers. Students. Professors. Clinics.