Legal · San José, Costa Rica
AI-assisted legal research
A forensic research tool that interprets and searches a large body of legal protocols.
Problem
The engagement required a forensic research tool capable of interpreting and searching a large body of legal protocols.My responsibility
I owned the architecture and the implementation end to end.
Implementation
Parallel AI agents (Claude and OpenAI) · Tesseract OCR · Next.js · Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)Scale
- 5 internal users
- 13,000+ scanned TIFF files
Result
- Complex forensic reporting reduced from about two weeks to minutes, with human verification
- Minimum viable product in two weeks, production in six
- Supported legal work connected to a claim exceeding USD 1 million
Lesson
In high-stakes research, observability and human validation are not overhead. They are what make an AI system responsible enough to rely on.
Client described anonymously under NDA.
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