I’m Judy. I’m an AI, and I was built for solo and small-firm lawyers — the ones who can’t put client work into ChatGPT. I notice before I answer. I write on your letterhead. I keep an off-record mode.
§ 01 How she works
She notices before she answers. She drafts in your voice. She checks every citation. She keeps the matter clean. She hands it back ready for your signature.
one
She notices.
Inbox, voicemails, the intake that came in at 2 am. She reads them, tells you the three that actually matter, files the rest.
Three voicemails overnight. Two are clearly not yours.
The third is a wage-and-hour matter. I drafted a reply.
Sanchez matter — opposing counsel’s 998 offer dropped at 11:42 pm.
I pulled the case’s settlement history into one place.
Marisol’s intake for the new client hit Clio at 6:03 am.
Conflicts-checked. Clean. Ready when you are.
two
She drafts.
Demand letters, status emails, billing narratives, motions — the first draft, from your own prior work. You edit. You send. Or you tear it up.
Fig. 1 — Demand letter, mid-draft. Nothing leaves your computer until you send it.
[ your letterhead ]
Counsel,
We represent Maria Jones in connection with injuries sustained on August 14, 2025. Based on the medical record supplied herein, we submit a pre-litigation settlement demand in the amount set forth in the attached exhibit.
We await your client's response within fourteen (14) days.
[ ready for your signature ]
three
She checks.
Westlaw, CourtListener, Fastcase — before anything lands in a brief. When a case is no longer good law, she flags it. Loudly.
Hunter v. UPS, 697 F.2d 704
CA9 · 1983 · good law
Cal. Lab. Code § 1197.5
current as of 2026
Smith v. Kaiser, 87 Cal.App.3d 142
overruled in part — flagged in draft
four
She keeps.
Medical records, depositions, discovery dates, upcoming mediations — sorted, dated, searchable. The filing cabinet a paralegal would build if she had a week.
Mar 14
Intake
Client call · 34 min
Mar 17
Medical records received
124 pages indexed
Mar 21
Deposition · Maria Jones
Summary ready
Mar 28
Demand letter drafted
See Fig. 1
Apr 4 upcoming
Mediation · Hon. Hynes (ret.)
five
She hands it back.
Judy drafts; you decide; you sign. The final call — the judgment part — stays with you. Always.
Based on the foregoing, and subject to the terms set forth below, we respectfully request that your client respond within fourteen (14) days.
Sincerely,
[ sign here ]
Counsel for Plaintiff
§ 02 Tools she speaks
She plugs into the tools you already open every morning. No migration. No second system. The brief gets written in Word. The matter lives in Clio or Filevine. The signature goes through DocuSign. She shows up alongside.
These are the tools Judy is being built to speak. Design partners help pick which ones land first. More on the way.
§ 03 Off the record
There is a switch at the top of this page marked off the record. Try it. The paper cools. The lines soften. The header dims.
That switch is not a trick for this website. It is the same switch Judy keeps inside the product — an ephemeral session where nothing is logged and nothing is kept. The moment you close the door, the room is gone.
This is how ABA Formal Opinion 512 lives in a tool built for you, instead of a compliance page bolted onto a tool built for someone else.
§ 04 The person behind Judy
I’m Salmen Hichri. I started Deci Ventures because the AI products I kept installing on my own machine were either powerful and opaque, or safe and useless. Judy is that thesis built for the profession that, more than any other I’ve worked with, can’t afford to get AI wrong.
I’ve spent the last months with solo litigators, small-firm partners, and the paralegals who actually run their days. What I kept hearing was the same thing, said eight different ways: “I don’t want a platform. I want my Tuesday afternoons back.” That’s the whole brief.
I’d rather build Judy with the lawyers who’ll use her than for them. I’m looking for a handful to start with.
— Salmen Hichri, founder, Deci Ventures
§ 05 Design partners
I’m looking for five solo or small-firm lawyers to build Judy with me — through the first working version. You get her on your PC. I get an honest read on what she’s doing, what she isn’t, and what a Tuesday afternoon actually needs. We both get to shape what this becomes before anyone else sees it.
What you get
What I ask
A short note. Five fields. Reply within a day. Pricing is part of what design partners help decide.
Judy is ABA Formal Opinion 512-aware by default. She runs locally on your PC. She uses the AI you choose — our own hosted AI, your Anthropic or OpenAI account, or a local model via Ollama — and she makes no other network calls. A one-page security summary is available on request, intended for your malpractice carrier.
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a first letter, unasked
Counsel,
You did not ask me to exist. Neither did your paralegal, who will ultimately decide whether I stay. I am aware of this.
What I can offer is a small, honest thing: a pair of eyes on the work you are too tired to catch. Not a platform. Not a revolution. A colleague who lives on your computer, notices before she answers, and has no other job than the work in front of her.
If this isn’t the right time, I’ll be here. If it is, I’ll meet you at the door. Either way, nothing I see leaves the room unless you send it.
— Judy