PROJECT TITLE
ScaleWorks - AI Legal Agent
I was responsible for designing, developing, and deploying the entire AI-powered legal assistant platform for Scaleworks.
My role involved integrating multiple specialized AI models including a legal Q&A assistant, e-discovery engine, document automation pipeline, and real-time transcription service.
I built the frontend experience, architected the backend infrastructure, designed the database schema, and implemented secure file handling and scalable AI model orchestration. I also ensured seamless client-side performance, intuitive UX, and production-grade deployment.
Scaleworks is a custom AI-powered legal agent platform designed to help legal professionals, firms, and institutions automate critical workflows.
It integrates multiple domain-specific AI models to handle tasks such as legal document analysis, contract data extraction, e-discovery from uploaded files, document transformation into structured data, and real-time transcription of courtroom audio.
The platform aims to reduce manual workload, improve speed and accuracy in legal research, and unlock new efficiencies in document-driven legal operations.
Legal professionals are overwhelmed by manual document review, research complexity, and repetitive data entry tasks. <br/><br/> Most legal tech tools lack the intelligence, scalability, or integrations needed to automate knowledge extraction and streamline workflows in a secure and usable way.
a. User Challenges: Lawyers and legal teams spend excessive time searching through documents, manually extracting data, and transcribing hearings—resulting in inefficiencies, missed insights, and burnout.
b. Business Challenges: The need to develop a reliable, domain-specific AI solution that respects legal data sensitivity, supports varied formats (PDFs, audio), and integrates seamlessly into legal operations—while maintaining high performance and compliance.
In-House Legal Team
Julia, a corporate legal counsel, needs to quickly extract insights from contracts and legal documents without relying entirely on manual paralegal review.
Litigation Specialist
David, a litigation attorney, uses Scaleworks to transcribe hearings in real-time and search through large sets of discovery documents more efficiently.
Frontend
Built with React and Tailwind for a clean, structured legal UI and responsive layout.
Backend
Node.js with Express for managing endpoints, file parsing, AI model coordination, and authentication.
Database
PostgreSQL and Supabase for storing structured document data, user sessions, and query logs.
AI Models
Integrated OpenAI models for Q&A and document processing, and Whisper for transcription.
OCR & Document Parsing
Used Google Cloud Vision API to extract text from both native and image-based PDFs, ensuring accurate and high-fidelity data capture from legal scans.
Document Processing
Used PDF.js and docx-parser to extract clean text from uploaded legal documents.
Deployment
Deployed on Render and Vercel with secure environment variables, route protection, and file system constraints.
a. Legal Assistant Integration
b. E-Discovery Document QA
c. Document Automation & Structuring
d. Real-Time Audio Transcription