I spent three years
inside real litigation.
Then I built tools from that reality.

One mission. One architecture.

I founded Unbarred with one mission: increasing access to justice and ensuring everyone gets a fair fight on the merits of their complaints, within the confines of the law.

Today, we're building for lawyers. LawEngine is AI litigation tooling sold to state-approved, bar-licensed attorneys. We're increasing access and equality by helping lawyers help their clients — many solo and small-firm attorneys today don't use AI, or can't afford tools like Harvey. We're there for them.

But from day one, we're designing for everyone. Not just the big law firms paying hand over fist for simple RAG and document retrieval. When the time comes — and it will — we won't need a different product, a different value proposition, a different anything. Just a config variable.

I think about this every hour I'm building. The day when I open a config file, change one word — false to true — and the tools I built for lawyers become tools for everyone. That's the design goal. That's why every architectural decision matters now.

How I got here.

I moved to Chicago with mechanical engineering and mathematics training, then earned an MBA from Chicago Booth. I worked in healthcare analytics and AI product development, including a Google-sponsored Kaggle win building an edge AI system from scratch.

In 2023, I entered active litigation and had to learn legal workflow execution from the inside. After counsel turnover and outreach to 50+ law firms, I moved into pro se execution.

I self-funded multi-year litigation and product R&D while learning Illinois civil procedure, briefing, hearing preparation, and appellate practice.

Every filing cycle translated into product requirements: traceable citations, source-first drafting, and verification before output.

I now build through Unbarred with one standard: tools must work in real legal workflows, not demo environments.

I'm building as fast as I can. And I need a partner.

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