Aewita exists because I kept watching lawyers paste privileged memos into tools built by AI companies that have nothing to do with the law. The industry accepted that as the price of admission. I didn't.
The architecture came first. We host our own frontier reasoning model — no OpenAI, no Anthropic, no Google. The retrieval layer covers all U.S. case law and court opinions from 1665 to today, plus all current federal and state statutes across 50 states and D.C. The citation verifier was the third piece: every claim the model makes is checked against the retrieved text before it reaches you.
None of this is marketing language. These are the things I wrote.
The name.
ǣwita is Old English. It meant a counselor of the law — someone who held and spoke the rules of a people. We chose it because the job hasn't changed in a thousand years. The tools should be worthy of it.
The company.
Scrivly, Inc. d/b/a Aewita. Delaware C-corp. Headquartered in the United States. Sam Anderson (CEO) and Hanish Reddy (Co-Founder).
What we're not.
We are not a wrapper. We are not pivoting from something else. We are not promising an enterprise agreement will fix the privacy problem.
Every other legal AI tool asks you to trust a subprocessor. Aewita doesn't have one.