jhana

jhana is an AI-native legal research and drafting platform built specifically for the Indian legal market. Founded in 2022 and developed in Bengaluru, jhana combines a proprietary national legal archive — comprising 16 million or more judgments, statutes, and legal authorities — with AI agents trained on Indian law. 

Key features and functions include:

Searcher — Legal Research Agent
Searcher runs parallel semantic and boolean searches across jhana's national legal archive based on a user's client story or query. The AI handles prompt construction, keyword selection, and filtering, and auto-detects contradictions or outdated citations to surface the most relevant and current authorities.

Paralegal — Drafting and Analysis Agent
The Paralegal agent generates legal arguments, opinions, and document drafts, and provides briefings, propositions, chronologies, issue analyses, and risk assessments. It is designed for long-context tasks and produces output with precise, verifiable footnotes. The agent works iteratively and shows its reasoning throughout the process.

Suit — Bulk Document Review Agent
Suit supports bulk upload and extraction across documents of any file type or size, including photos, handwritten records, and financial data. It identifies contradictions, revision histories, claims, and compliance issues within uploaded document sets, and generates structured indexes and summaries from large volumes of material.

National Legal Archive
jhana maintains a proprietary corpus of 16 million or more Indian legal documents, including Supreme Court rulings, High Court decisions, appellate and special court orders, statutes, and legal references. The archive is updated continuously from hundreds of courts and features paragraph-level precision, cross-linked doctrine, authority-aware retrieval, and bilingual coverage in English and Hindi.

Citation Verification and Accuracy Controls
jhana's agents cite their work at the paragraph level and apply verifier models to detect hallucinated, contradicted, or overruled citations. The system is designed to flag outdated authority and ensure that references are traceable to specific holdings within the archive.

Courtroom by jhana — Judiciary and Public Sector Tools
jhana offers a separate suite of tools for courts, registries, and government bodies, including AI-assisted filing scrutiny, case metadata management, clerklike briefings to support judicial notes, and tools for publishing and communicating court events. These solutions are designed to be owned and hosted by courts and transacted via API.

Business and In-house Legal Tools
jhana provides tools tailored for founders and in-house operators, including plain-language translation of legal documents, negotiation position analysis, due diligence support, and assistance with transactions, compliance, and regulatory filings.

The platform is designed to support lawyers, law firms, in-house legal teams, tax professionals, compliance teams, and members of the judiciary with research, drafting, and document review tasks. jhana received the ALITA Award for Most Outstanding Legal Tech Entrant and has been adopted by more than 10,000 users, including over 150 judges and registrars across five or more courts.