For anyone working in the Indian legal system, the pursuit of justice is often hidden behind an exhausting reality. Brilliant lawyers and paralegals spend the vast majority of their days lost in a mountain of paperwork. They spend hours searching for a single precedent, manually reviewing hundreds of pages for a tiny detail, and wrestling with disconnected files. It is a slow, quiet grind that drains the intellectual energy out of people who just want to focus on deep legal strategy and actually helping their clients.
jhana is stepping in to bring clarity and momentum back to the legal profession.
Founded by Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarthy and Anya Batra, jhana is an intelligent AI paralegal built specifically to serve the Indian legal ecosystem.
Hemanth, Anya, and their team understood that Indian law is incredibly nuanced. So, they did the hard work of building a sophisticated system grounded in deep, proprietary legal datasets. The platform sits quietly alongside the lawyer. A legal professional can ask it to analyze complex case files, run deep precedent research, or generate accurate redlines on a contract. It reads, understands the local context, and drafts a precise, reliable response in seconds.
What makes jhana so special is its profound empathy for the people within our legal institutions. It completely removes the soul-sapping “needle in a haystack” research from a lawyer’s day. By taking on the heavy, manual discovery process, it gives legal teams their time and dignity back. It replaces overwhelming operational fatigue with a quiet, reliable sense of focus.
The market? Law firms, in-house corporate teams, and ultimately, an ecosystem that desperately needs to clear massive backlogs and make legal intelligence more accessible to everyone.
Hemanth and Anya are true change agents. They looked at a deeply stubborn, foundational pillar of our country and chose to solve its biggest friction point with grace. Watching our homegrown founders build tools that respect the professional and democratize access to legal knowledge is a beautiful reminder of the larger, unfinished agenda we are all part of.
Let’s celebrate the builders.
w/ Jay Ingle & Dikshant Joshi
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