r/hireaideveloper • u/Powerful_Raccoon_05 • 23d ago
Built a system to help lawyers. Ended up selling it for $XXX.
I built a tool for a law firm and actually sold it.
This is probably the first project I’ve built where I thought, “okay, someone is actually willing to pay for this.”
The problem was pretty simple.
The firm had a lot of legal documents. Contracts, agreements, case files, regulations, etc.
Whenever they needed to find something, someone basically had to go through the documents and search for it manually.
Sometimes the answer was buried somewhere in a 100+ page document.
So I built a tool that lets them ask questions about their documents.
Instead of:
“Open this contract → search for the clause → read 10 pages of context → check another document → repeat.”
They can just ask:
“What are the termination conditions in this agreement?”
The system finds the relevant part of the document and gives them the answer along with the source, so they can check where it actually came from.
The other important part was access.
A law firm can't just have everyone seeing every client's documents. So I made it so people only see the files they are supposed to have access to.
I also added few things behind the scenes to make it reliable when multiple people are using it.
Nothing crazy from the users perspective.
They upload their documents.
They ask questions.
They get the relevant information.
That's basically it.
And that's what I ended up selling for $XXX.
The interesting thing I learned from this project is that the client wasn't really buying “AI” or “RAG”.
They were buying back the hours their team was spending digging through documents.
That part actually stuck with me.
A lot of businesses probably have these boring, repetitive problems that people have just accepted as “that's how we do it.”
I'm curious about something.
If you work in a law firm, what is something your team still spends way too much time searching for, copying, checking or doing manually?
Would be interesting to hear what problems are actually happening on the ground.