In our two-quarter class, we had 5 student teams partnered with 3 different legal aid teams, all working on different, highly scoped versions of the same challenge: whether and how AI could assist a legal team in scaling up a much-needed, hard-to-provide service to more people. Each student team, in close consultation with their legal team partner, went through a design, prototype, and evaluation cycle to see — if between January and June — they could get a solution that was effective, responsible, and closer to pilot.

As of Summer 2026, the tools are not ready for immediate, public-facing deployment. But we are working with partners and students to plan out how the current prototypes can move towards a controlled pilot within the legal teams.