Have you ever been in that perfect zen flow state in your work, only to be disrupted by yet another important contract to review, with a short and stressful deadline? This has started happening to me more and more often.
The other week, just before our highly valued traditional midsummer vacation, I finally said: enough. There has to be a better way than these constant context switches that drain so much time and energy. I bloody need to solve this.
That's how it started.
What I didn't know was that the solution would be so interesting, so rewarding in itself, that building it became its own flow state.
In my previous article I wrote about us engineers being civilization's support class. The engineers, developers, builders who make everyone else's story possible. The Paladins.
And I said: a Paladin doesn't fear a new spell. They equip it.
So I did.
The problem was real and specific
Legal documents are brutal. Not because the content is always complex, but because of the combination: dense language, buried clauses, time pressure, and the cost of missing something. A contract that takes a senior lawyer four to six hours to review properly. To me, as a founder who is not a lawyer, trying to understand what we are actually signing, it could easily take up to two days of headache.
For me personally it was the context switch that hurt most. Breaking deep work to spend half a day parsing fine print is one of the most expensive things you can do to a knowledge worker's day. And it kept happening.
So I built a system to solve it. I call it Aequitas Intelligence.
Aequitas is Latin for fairness, equity, balance. The idea is simple: you should not need to be a lawyer or spend days to understand what you are agreeing to.
The system does four things. It reads the document, PDF, Word, image, or plain text, and returns a clear analysis fast. The first version took around thirty seconds for a normal document. After some optimization passes I got it down to a consistent six to eight seconds. Longer documents, fifty pages or more, still come in around thirty seconds. I have never seen it take longer than a minute, regardless of length or complexity.
It highlights risks. Clauses that are unusually one-sided, terms that contradict each other, obligations that are easy to miss. It classifies what it finds: liability, termination, payment, IP, confidentiality, structured and labeled so you can navigate directly to what matters. And it summarizes in plain language. Not legal prose, not vague, concrete sentences that tell you what this document actually says.
And because I work in Sweden and most of my clients and colleagues do too, I integrated it with Tyr, a legal AI model on HuggingFace specialized specifically in Swedish law. That matters. Generic models don't carry the context of Swedish jurisdiction. Tyr does. Massive respect to the amazing developers of this Nordic model.
For me, as an engineer, the value is time and focus, fewer context switches pulling me out of my primary work. But the same tool saves a lawyer, or anyone who reviews contracts daily, valuable time and the mental load of reading dense legal language for hours. Different role, same relief.
What changed the moment it worked
I ran my first real document through it. A consulting contract I had been putting off reviewing for three days.
Result in under eight seconds.
I sat there reading the output and felt something shift. Not just relief. Something closer to the feeling you get when you realize you have been carrying something heavy for a long time, and you just put it down.
The system caught two clauses I would almost certainly have glossed over. One was an IP ownership paragraph written in a way that was ambiguous enough to be a problem. The other was a termination clause with an asymmetric notice period that favored the other party.
I showed it to our family lawyer who looked at the output with bright, intelligent eyes and said: this is actually useful. I could use this every day.
This is not about replacing lawyers
Let me be crystal clear. This system does not replace human judgment. It never will. You still make the final call. Your lawyer still advises you. The value is not in removing the human, it is in making the human far more effective in far less time.
A surgeon with better imaging doesn't stop being a surgeon. They just operate with more precision and less guesswork. The principle is the same.
Why I am sharing this
I have this rule I live by: when three or more people I deeply trust tell me the same thing, I pay attention. Multiple people looked at this and told me, this should exist, and you should share it. So here I am.
Aequitas Intelligence is not yet in production. I built it to solve my own problem, and it did exactly that.
For now I am sharing it because it is a real example of what I wrote about before. We are the support class. We solve problems so that everyone else can do their best work.
This time I solved one for myself.
If the context switch problem is something you recognize, whether you are a simple engineer like me who occasionally drowns in legal fine print, or a professional who lives in long, complex documents every single day, I am genuinely curious how you experience it, and what helps.
I believe that conversation is worth having.
The original LinkedIn post included two screenshots of Aequitas Intelligence's output: a brief analysis summary and a sample list of flagged risks and anomalies. Not included in this backup.