The policy memo said "use AI responsibly." I'm building what comes next.
I work in a courthouse. Nine years in, three roles deep, and I still get asked questions every week that boil down to the same thing: "is it okay if I use AI for this?" The honest answer is "I don't know, and neither does anyone in this building, and the policy memo doesn't help." That's the problem I'm building around for the next four weeks.
Themis Lex is a tool that takes a court employee's role, their workflow, and how sensitive their data is, and tries to tell them where AI can actually help and where it should never go. Not generic advice. Role-specific guidance that knows the difference between a Judicial Assistant at the front counter and a courtroom clerk taking official minutes. The output is a PDF you can hand to your supervisor.
I'm building it as part of the Build Club Women in AI Accelerator, four weeks alongside 150+ women builders from around the world, organized by Annie Liao and Caroline Ciaramitaro. Week one is the part where you don't write any code. I wrote a PRD, a prompt spec, an architecture doc, and a build brief for Kiro. I confirmed the public job description PDFs I'm grounding the tool in have clean text layers. I scoped what's in v1 and what's not. I picked a model. None of it was glamorous. All of it was necessary.
What I'm excited about is that I get to build for the people I work with. I'm not a trained engineer. I'm self-taught, and I started this kind of work in July with no idea what I was doing. The fact that I can sit down on a Saturday and direct an AI coding agent through a build like this is something I would not have believed nine months ago. That's the part that keeps me at the keyboard at 11pm on a school night.
Week two starts on Monday. The build officially begins. I'll post again when there's something to show.
Building alongside Build Club in the Women in AI Accelerator. Tagging Annie Liao and Caroline Ciaramitaro who run a thoughtful, generous community.
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