Sovereign AI legal agent for the Pro Se Network. 80 phases built. 62 API endpoints. 22 tools. 4-guard governance. Trained on 5,196 legal Q&A pairs across 12 areas of law. Total build cost: $0.00. LIVE at prosenetwork.org — Alpha.
Built in 80 phases. Zero shortcuts. Zero dollars.
100 million Americans cannot afford legal representation. The system doesn't pause for them.
LegalZoom, Rocket Lawyer. Fill in blanks. No procedural guidance. No risk assessment. No deadlines.
ChatGPT hallucinates case law. No jurisdiction awareness. No guardrails. No consequences when it's wrong.
Underfunded. Months-long waitlists. Limited areas of law. Not enough attorneys for 100M people.
The gap isn't information — it's navigation. People don't need to read the law. They need someone to walk them through it.
Five layers. Deterministic first, AI second. The LLM cannot override the rules.
Every case flows through defined states with deterministic transitions only. No LLM decides transitions. Skip a state? InvalidTransition.
This is the moat. Not templates — rules. Prerequisites with blocking flags. Deadlines with strict enforcement. Causes of action with elements.
Three-tier fallback. Free first. Always.
| Tier | Model | Cost | Tokens | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | $0.00 | 1,000 | Simple chat, quick answers |
| Tier 2 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.00 | 1,500 | Tool sessions, medium complexity |
| Tier 3 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | ~$0.01 | 2,000 | Complex legal structured tasks |
Jeremy also has a purpose-built Phi-3 Mini 3.8B on HuggingFace. 32 attention heads. 3,072 hidden dimensions. Trained on 5,196 legal Q&A pairs. Proof that fully local, zero-cost legal AI is possible.
Five signals. One composite score. When it hits CRITICAL, Jeremy stops himself.
| Signal | Impact |
|---|---|
| Custody Detection | Instant CRITICAL (score: 100) |
| Area-of-Law Default | 5 – 50 points |
| Deadline Urgency Triggers | +10 per trigger |
| Prerequisite Gaps | +5 per missing |
| Aggravating Factors | +10 – 20 per factor (minor, DV, deportation, foreclosure) |
Jeremy doesn't just talk — he acts. 22 tools. 4 risk levels.
Jeremy doesn't govern himself. Four guards. One vote.
Financial & Risk
GeminiPhysical & Safety
KimiAdvisory
GPTTechnical
ClaudeJeremy speaks through Carter — warm, charismatic, New York edge. His voice is alive — a 32-bar KITT equalizer pulses gold with every word.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | ElevenLabs |
| Voice | Carter |
| Model | eleven_flash_v2_5 |
| Plan | Starter ($5/mo) |
| Quota | 30,000 chars/mo |
| Delivery | /api/tts (500 char cap) |
32 gold bars react to Jeremy's actual voice via Web Audio API FFT analysis. Center bars glow brighter gold, edge bars fade to brass. Active bars emit gold box-shadow glow. Idle state breathes with a slow pulse.
Markdown is rendered as styled HTML in chat (headings, bold, lists). Before voice synthesis, cleanForTTS() strips all markdown, HTML tags, and formatting — so Carter speaks clean English, never "hashtag hashtag hashtag."
Jeremy is not theoretical. He is supporting real cases in real courts.
Section 1983 — False Arrest + Excessive Force by NYPD
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | NY Supreme Court, Bronx County |
| Complaint | 90 paragraphs, 4 causes of action |
| Valuation | $450,000 – $650,000 |
| Evidence | 32 exhibits catalogued |
| Key Finding | Officers changed charge from Theft of Services to Resisting Arrest to cover assault |
| Proof | Transit card shows 2 fare payments — irrefutable electronic evidence |
| Medical | Bellevue CT confirmed concussion |
$66.88 per year. That's it. That's the whole thing.
| Component | Choice | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Development (80 phases) | Blood, sweat, code | $0.00 |
| Training (GPU) | Kaggle free quota | $0.00 |
| Primary VM | Oracle Micro 2 (free tier) | $0.00 |
| Backup VM | GCP (free tier) | $0.00 |
| AI Models | Gemini free tier + Phi-3 open-source | $0.00 |
| Legal Data | CourtListener (open source) | $0.00 |
| SSL Certificate | Let's Encrypt (auto-renew) | $0.00 |
| Domain | prosenetwork.org (Porkbun) | $6.88/yr |
| Voice | ElevenLabs Starter | $60/yr |
| TOTAL ANNUAL COST | $66.88 | |
Not another chatbot with a legal prompt.
| Feature | Generic Legal AI | Jeremy |
|---|---|---|
| Core Engine | LLM with legal prompt | Deterministic state machine + LLM interface |
| Hallucination Control | "Please don't hallucinate" | LLM cannot override rule engine |
| Risk Management | None | 5-signal composite scoring + circuit breakers |
| Cost | $20-100+/mo | $0 to build, ~$0.01 per case |
| Governance | None | 4-guard Quadrant Guard consensus voting |
| Memory | Conversation context only | Persistent FTS5-indexed knowledge base |
| Voice | Text only | ElevenLabs Carter + KITT equalizer |
| Data Flywheel | No learning | Conversation logging (JSONL) for retraining |
| Deployment | Demo / localhost | LIVE at prosenetwork.org (SSL, Oracle VM) |
| Real Cases | Demos only | Active cases, real clients, real courts |
Phase 1 is done. Here's where we're going.
80-phase legal engine. 62 endpoints. 22 tools. Quadrant Guard. Fine-tuned model. Voice. Memory. Active case support. Attorney referral network. Divorce module.
Completed: Live deployment (prosenetwork.org + Let's Encrypt SSL), unified dark-gold UI across all pages, KITT 32-bar audio equalizer, conversation data logging (JSONL) for retraining, markdown rendering, clean TTS pipeline, divorce guided workflow. Next: Additional jurisdictions, inference optimization, 10,000+ training pairs, mobile app.
50-state coverage. Multi-LLM hallucination detection. Real-time court rule updates. Immigration deep module. Criminal defense deep module. Third-party API.
Multilingual expansion. Attorney marketplace. White-label for legal aid organizations. Jeremy as a platform.
Jeremy is not just software. He is an access-to-justice infrastructure capable of reshaping how ordinary people navigate the law. The deterministic rule engine ensures reliability. The AI layer adds understanding. The attorney network provides human oversight. The $0 infrastructure model ensures sustainability.
Built by Israel "Ace" Burns & Esco Obong
Esuk Atu — Calabar — New York