In the most recent episode of the Technically Legal Podcast, Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona, the co-founding team behind legal research platform Descrybe, talk about the app they built to “democratize access to the law.” The discussion explores the unique dynamics of married cofounders and how they are taking advantage of the power of Generative AI to disrupt an area long dominated by high-cost legacy providers: legal research and case law.
Richard, a software engineer, and Kara, a marketing expert, share the Descrybe origin story stemming from a personal legal issue to building a platform that processes over 100 billion tokens of legal data. They explain why they chose to build an AI-native system from the ground up rather than simply layering a “wrapper” over existing models—a decision that allows them to offer professional-grade tools at a fraction of the traditional cost.
