LaWisor
A concept for free, grounded legal guidance — plain-language answers cited back to real statute. In design, not yet built.
Overview
Status: concept. LaWisor is a design I've worked through but not yet built. What follows is the intended product, not a shipped one.
Most people never talk to a lawyer about the things that would benefit most from one — a tenancy dispute, an inheritance question, a wrongful termination. Not because the law is silent on those, but because the first consultation costs more than the problem feels worth. LaWisor is an attempt at the first step: a free, plain-language answer to "where do I actually stand?"
The intended design
- Retrieval before generation. Answers grounded in actual statute and case law, with the source passage shown alongside every claim. A legal assistant that can't show its source is worse than useless — it's confidently wrong in a domain where that costs people money.
- Plain language, not legalese. The whole point is reaching people who don't have a lawyer. Translating back into jargon would defeat it.
- Aggressive scope limits. It tells you what the law says and what your options look like. It does not draft your filing, predict your outcome, or replace counsel — and it says so loudly, not in a footer.
- Corpus first. The hard problem isn't the model; it's assembling a clean, current, well-cited corpus of law. That's the part that decides whether this is trustworthy or a liability.
Why it isn't built yet
Because the corpus problem is real, and shipping a legal assistant on a half-built one would be irresponsible. It stays a concept until the grounding layer is good enough that I'd rely on the answers myself.