Legal information service

WhatLaw.ai

What law applies to me? AI-powered answers across federal, state, and 254 Florida municipalities.

whatlaw.aiFree tier; paid tiers in development.

What it is

WhatLaw.ai answers a question that the legal industry has historically refused to answer in plain English: what law actually applies to me right now? Four inputs — ZIP code, age, sex, and activity — produce a personalized legal report with red flags, green lights, and citations. The reports stitch together three jurisdictional layers (federal, state, municipal) into a single readable narrative.

The corpus, as of launch, contains 239,030 law sections across 254 Florida municipalities, plus federal statutes from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and Florida statutes scraped from the legislature site. National expansion is on the roadmap.

Who it’s for

Florida residents trying to understand what they can or cannot do at a specific address. Pro se litigants navigating courts without a lawyer. Small business owners checking municipal compliance. Journalists and researchers needing fast, citation-anchored legal context. Lawyers using it as a research scaffold.

The problem it addresses

The American legal system is functionally unsearchable for ordinary people. Federal codes are on one site. State statutes are on another. Municipal codes — the layer that actually governs most daily life — are scattered across reverse-engineered county-by-county portals. WhatLaw.ai unifies the three layers, applies AI for retrieval and summarization, and refuses to give legal advice. The product gives information; the citizen still decides what to do with it.

Stack

Next.js 15 frontend on Vercel; FastAPI backend on Fly.io. SQLite (2.5GB, FTS5 indexes) houses the corpus. Claude Sonnet handles report analysis; Claude Haiku handles query expansion. The site uses a dark-theme, amber-accent design language; the mascot, Cappy, is a Capitol-dome character shared with the children’s book series.

Press & partnership

Press inquiries about the corpus, the methodology, or the broader access-to-justice thesis should be routed through the press page. Partnership and licensing inquiries (legal-aid organizations, bar associations, law schools) through the partnerships page.

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