Ariadni is software that helps you see what your outside counsel is actually delivering: how fast they respond, who really did the work, how good it is, and whether the fee matches the value. She reads from your own inbox, so the picture is built from evidence, not impressions.
Most people who hire a lawyer have no way to judge what they get back. The work looks finished, the invoice looks reasonable, and unless you are a lawyer yourself you cannot easily tell whether the draft was strong, who actually wrote it, or whether the fee fit the effort. Even lawyers hire other lawyers for work they cannot do alone. Ariadni exists to close that gap, so the person paying for legal work can finally ask informed questions about it.
Ariadni was built by Damian Guzman, a corporate-commercial lawyer, after he ran an entire mergers-and-acquisitions deal, start to finish, solo, with AI doing the heavy lifting. When it was over, he could measure his own work in a way clients never see: how quickly he replied, how long a draft took to turn, how many instruments he produced. The realization was simple. If he could measure all of that about himself, any client could measure it about any lawyer they hire. So he built the tool that does it.
Damian also practices law through FTE Legal, a Social Purpose Corporation, an independent law firm. Ariadni is a separate company, Ariadni LLC, and the two are kept structurally apart: nothing Ariadni learns benefits the firm, and nothing about the firm reaches into Ariadni’s data or scoring. That wall runs both ways and is documented in Ariadni’s Conflicts and Data-Firewall Policy.
You connect your email account and tell Ariadni who your lawyer is, what they charge, and what you hired them for. From that moment forward, and only forward, Ariadni watches for new mail from your counsel. When a document arrives, she produces four reads: responsiveness, who did the work, work-product quality, and fee versus expectation. She emails the results to you, in plain English, and stages polite questions for your lawyer in your own drafts folder, for you to review and send.
Ariadni does not store your mail or your documents. Before any document text is analyzed, continuously learning best-effort de-identification runs first; it is not a guarantee, so you should assume the text is processed by the AI interface. The analysis runs on the Anthropic API. Your results are private to you, and are never shown to the lawyer being assessed unless you choose to share them.
You could paste one email into ChatGPT or Claude and ask what to make of it. Ariadni is built for the parts a one-off question misses. She runs on her own, from your own inbox: once you connect Gmail, she watches for new mail from your counsel and reads each document as it arrives, so she catches what you would not have known to ask, on every deliverable, without you doing anything.
The analysis is configured to your engagement, not generic. Ariadni knows the matter, your side, your leverage, the fee arrangement, who your lawyers are, and their respective qualifications and credentials (from publicly available sources), and she weighs the four measures by the priorities you set. Every document is scored against the same documented rubric, applied identically to every lawyer and every firm, including the one who built her. The rubric does improve over time, from published sources rather than anyone's opinion, so each version is numbered: your matter is scored on the version it started on, you are told when a newer one exists and can re-run against it, and a past score is never quietly restated. Every observation is tied to specific text in the document, and she assesses the work rather than the lawyer, so she stays useful without drifting into legal advice or verdicts.
She is also built with your confidentiality in mind. Pasting a lawyer’s draft into a public chatbot puts your confidential material, and potentially any attorney-client privilege, into a tool you have not vetted. Ariadni de-identifies the document text before it is sent for analysis (best effort, not a guarantee), encrypts the little she retains, and does not store your mail or your documents. And she closes the loop: when something is worth raising, she drafts a polite question to your lawyer in your own drafts folder, ready for you to review and send.
Ariadni is informational software, not a law firm, and nothing she produces is legal advice. Using her creates no attorney-client relationship. Her reads are observations supported by evidence and anchored to the document in front of her, never verdicts about a lawyer’s character and never a public ranking. The analysis is provisional and best-effort, and it can be wrong, so treat it as a starting point for a conversation with your counsel, not a conclusion.
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Ariadni LLC is a technology company, not a law firm. Informational only, not legal advice; no attorney-client relationship. Results are private to you and are never shown to the assessed lawyer unless you choose to share them.