About Us

Justis AI is a small team building legal infrastructure for India. Sumit founded the company after spending months talking to the people who do this work every day, first as an outsider to the profession and then as someone who had heard the same complaint from every corner of it. He has a BTech from NIT and worked in industry as a product designer before starting this.

Utkarsh Singh joined as co-founder and CTO to lead engineering, and Prakhar Mishra came on as founding engineer, building the backend. We are deliberately small. Everyone here talks to the lawyers who use the product.

In November 2025, Sumit watched a relative lose days to legal research that should have taken hours. The obvious response was to build something for legal research. The more useful response, as it turned out, was to find out how far the problem actually went.

So he started asking. First law students, who described their own version of it. Then litigators and advocates practising in the High Courts and the Supreme Court. Then legal teams inside law firms, and inside large corporate firms. Every conversation pushed the problem outward. It was never one broken workflow. Research, drafting, review and matter management were all carrying the same weight, and all still being done by hand.

Work began in January 2026. By the end of February there was enough of a product to show, and in early March we pitched it at Startup Bihar. The response there was the first real signal that this was worth building at full speed.

Utkarsh Singh joined as CTO soon after, and Prakhar Mishra followed as founding engineer on the backend. Since then the work has been steady and largely unglamorous: shipping, listening to the lawyers using it, and fixing whatever does not hold up in practice.

We want legal help in India to be within reach of the people who need it, and we want the people who practise law to have a system that works the way they already do.

That means building toward agentic AI that can carry a matter from first instruction to final filing, and toward what a law firm looks like when that capability is assumed rather than bolted on.