# Judy

> The AI confidant for solo and small-firm lawyers who cannot put client work into ChatGPT. Drafts on your letterhead, keeps an off-record mode, lives on your PC. Published by Deci Ventures. Built by Salmen Hichri. Currently recruiting five design partners.

Judy is an AI built for the lawyer's Tuesday afternoon — not a platform, not a chatbot, not a revolution. A colleague who has no other job than the work in front of her. She notices before she answers. She writes on your letterhead. She keeps an off-record mode that does not log, retain, or train on anything. She lives on your PC. Your client data never leaves your machine unless you say so, in writing, per matter.

## What Judy does (beat by beat)
1. **She notices.** Morning inbox, voicemails, overnight intake — she reads them and surfaces the three that actually matter.
2. **She drafts.** First cuts of demand letters, status emails, billing narratives, and motions — in your voice, from your own prior work.
3. **She checks.** Every citation against Westlaw, CourtListener, and Fastcase before anything lands in a brief. She flags cases that are no longer good law.
4. **She keeps.** A chronology for every matter — medical records, depositions, discovery dates, upcoming mediations — sorted, dated, searchable.
5. **She hands it back.** Ready for your signature. Judy drafts; you decide; you sign. The final judgment stays with you.

## What Judy does not do
- She will not be cheerful. Cheerfulness is not warmth.
- She will not train on your work — not to improve the model, not to improve herself, not for anyone.
- She will not pretend a citation is current when it isn't.
- She will not argue. She disagrees by noticing.
- She will not use the words "platform", "operations", "transformative", or "AGI".
- She will not page you after hours.
- She will not disappear. Your memory leaves with you in plain files, in writing.

## Who she is for
- Solo civil litigators, family lawyers, PI lawyers, immigration lawyers, criminal-defense lawyers, real-estate lawyers, estate-planning lawyers.
- Small-firm partners (5–25 lawyers) wanting per-case lift without vendor concentration risk.
- Any lawyer who has read ABA Formal Opinion 512 and is no longer comfortable putting client work into consumer ChatGPT.

## Privacy & privilege
- ABA Formal Opinion 512-aware by default.
- Runs locally on the lawyer's own PC.
- Uses the AI the lawyer chooses — Deci Ventures' own hosted AI, a bring-your-own Anthropic or OpenAI account, or a local Ollama model — and makes no other network calls.
- A one-page security summary is available on request for malpractice carrier review.

## Tools she's being built to speak
Clio · Filevine · Westlaw · LexisNexis · Microsoft Word · DocuSign · QuickBooks · Zoom. Design partners help choose which ones land first.

## Status
- Pre-launch. Shipping the first working version with design partners.
- Recruiting five solo or small-firm lawyers to build Judy alongside — through the first working version.
- Commitment: roughly twenty minutes a week — a short screen-share and a candid read.
- Pricing is part of what design partners help decide.

## Contact
- Application form at https://judy.works/#design-partners

## Publisher
Judy is published by **Deci Ventures** (https://deci.ventures).
Legal entity: **Deci Ventures, Inc.** — Delaware.
Founder: **Salmen Hichri** (https://salmenhq.com).

## Key resources
- [Home page](https://judy.works/): hero, workflow narrative, tools strip, off-record demo, design-partner application form.
- [Writing](https://judy.works/writing/): collection of long-form letters from Judy — legal ethics, solo-practice economics, and the quiet decisions that shape a careful practice.
- [Writing / Opinion 512](https://judy.works/writing/opinion-512/): a careful 18-minute reading of ABA Formal Opinion 512 — the self-learning distinction, informed-consent five-element test, Rule 5.3 supervision, fee reasonableness, and the state overlays (CA / FL / NY / TX) that change what compliance actually looks like for solo and small-firm lawyers. Includes interactive state-overlay matrix, sanctions chart, and a decision-tree flowchart.

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