Ai powered legal advisor

Home screen
mobile view
response display

Inspiration

Access to legal help is often out of reach for people in many countries due to high costs, limited availability, or complexity of laws. I wanted to build a tool that could bridge that gap and provide free, easy-to-understand legal guidance using AI — something that could empower people to understand their rights, anywhere in the world.

What it does

AI Legal Aid is a modern chatbot that provides general legal information using natural language. Users can:

Select a legal category (e.g. Tenant Rights, Labor Law, etc.)
Choose their country for relevant legal context
Ask legal questions in plain English
Receive helpful, concise answers generated by Google's Gemini AI

It’s fast, accessible, and designed to be used without any legal background.

How we built it

I built the frontend using:

React for UI
Vite for speedy local development
Tailwind CSS for styling and responsive layout
Gemini API to power the chatbot's AI-generated legal responses

The app is fully frontend-based with no database or server. Everything runs client-side, making it privacy-friendly and super lightweight.

Challenges we ran into

Jurisdiction differences: Legal systems vary across countries, which made prompting the AI tricky. I added a country selector to help guide the AI's responses while still keeping them general.
UI overload: Fitting category and country filters into a clean layout without cluttering the screen was a challenge, especially on mobile. I solved this with a compact tag-style layout and dropdowns.
Responsible AI use: Ensuring the chatbot didn’t "sound like a lawyer" was important — I built strong disclaimers and trained the prompt to emphasize it's not legal advice.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A smooth, production-ready AI chatbot with global scope and zero backend.
Supports 190+ countries and multiple legal categories.
Real-time, human-like legal info using Gemini — cleanly and responsibly delivered.