In 2020 the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy asked advocates at eight High Courts whether they subscribed to a law reporter or an online database. At the Gujarat High Court, 61.7% said no. At Madras, 54.8%. An advocate argues from precedent for a living, and in those courts most had no way of their own to look it up. The judgment that wins a case was found in a senior’s library, or paid for, or missed.
We founded jhana at Harvard in 2022 and built India’s first AI paralegal: deep doc intelligence, research, and drafting agents atop our 16M+ live index of Indian case law and statute, the National Legal Archive. Any advocate could open a free account, and the bench paid nothing: Analytics India Magazine found it “free for judges and judicial officers.” In September 2024 ALITA named jhana the Asia-Pacific’s most outstanding legal tech entrant. A month later Bar & Bench wrote of three Harvard graduates “attempting to usher in a new era in legal tech by launching jhana.ai, a generative AI paralegal or legal assistant.” “jhana is India’s first AI paralegal,” co-founder Ben Hoffner-Brodsky told the paper. Em McGlone told it why: “if lawyers are using better tools for research, it can improve the quality of justice everywhere.”
We were India’s first and biggest legal AI for over three years. By September 2026 that meant 15,121 accounts, 63,483 agent tasks, and 6,999,784 document pages processed, with active users in 2,506 towns and cities; the same data is open to explore. Customers wrote up the results themselves: a handwritten 1998 seizure list indexed in 15 minutes, a reassessment limitation check in under 10. A later entrant can copy a product. It cannot copy three years of real legal work, and that record is what verified AI for claims defense is built and evaluated on.
“Suit generated the index in a few minutes — the handwritten list became accurate typed data, searchable and verifiable.”
Teja Boggaram, Associate, Transcorporate Legal Services LLP, in his article on our blog, 14 November 2025
“It instantly generated a table contrasting the performance across different portfolios as well as highlighting the best quarter and the growth over time.”
Sunil Nahar, Founder, Common Wealth Advisors, in his article on our blog, 18 November 2025
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