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Everyone's asking what AI means for the practice of law. We think that's the wrong question. In this first post in a new series, we explain what we're building instead.

Our experiments aren’t about shipping features. They’re about showing what’s possible, making mistakes and celebrating the odd agility that only a non-profit can pull off. Not every idea is good, and that’s the whole point.

We often think of innovation as a space to create something new without constraints, that points us towards to a future of what’s possible and where we can go next. But innovation can also be used in a different direction; to help us make sense of the past so we can better understand what we’ve already done.

DeepSeek, a hedge fund-backed Chinese artificial intelligence company, seemed to emerge as an unlikely ally for environmental activists when they released their most recent large language model (LLM) in January 2025. The model promised GPT-level accuracy with fewer chips, less energy, and a smaller budget.