Research
Case briefing
Turn long judgments into structured briefs with grounded, traceable legal citations.
Solon, AI-native legal workspace.
Solon is a consolidated, legal-first workspace for legal practitioners and law students that replaces multiple paid AI tools. Search and analyze your client documents securely, brief case materials on your device, and draft pleadings with grounded proof.
The Company
Verantu Labs
Verantu Labs is a technology solutions company building AI-native products for high-stakes professional work. We design interfaces and systems that work collaboratively with professionals.
The Flagship Product
Solon
Solon is our flagship AI-native legal workspace. Crafted specifically for legal practitioners and law students, it brings secure context awareness straight to your local document pool.
Architecture
An AI-native legal workspace that sits over your folders.
Solon operates directly over your local folders. Search local precedents securely, run cross-matter search, and draft briefs with clear privacy boundaries.
Solon Matter Workspace
Solon Context Analysis
The court treated delay as fatal once the claimant failed to explain the gap between notice and filing.
Judgment.pdf, lines 142-156
Witness statement.pdf, lines 47-58
Limitation memo.docx, lines 18-31
Suggested Action
Draft response distinguishing adverse limitation cases based on local rules.The Problem
Legal work is document-heavy, high-stakes, and repetitive.
Generic AI models don't know your local directories, invent precedents, and expose confidential case files to cloud servers.
Cloud Exposure Risks
Uploading case files to cloud models risks client confidentiality and breaches data custody policies.
Hallucinated References
Generic AI models invent holdings and code provisions, creating high risks of citation errors.
Use Cases
Designed for the workflows legal professionals repeat daily.
Solon wraps advanced agent workflows in a calm, local-first interface, ensuring your case data stays fully synchronized.
Review
Document tables
Extract clauses, deadlines, limitation periods, and obligations into tabular sheets.
Drafting
Legal drafting
Generate first-pass pleadings and memo outlines directly from your local case folders.
Privacy
Hybrid architecture
Your documents stay on your device. Only precise text fragments are secure-processed.
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Jurisdiction context
Grounded in local statutes, judicial cases, and civil procedure rules out of the box.
Practice
Matter awareness
Track conflicts, critical filing deadlines, and relationships across complex matters.
Capabilities
High-fidelity capabilities for professional teams.
Local matter files
Keep contracts, pleadings, and judgments on your device. Solon searches and references them safely without uploading files.
Cited answers
Get answers with grounded, traceable line references and full original document context preserved.
Team workflow
Coordinate shared legal research and review securely from a common, local document pool.
Hybrid Architecture
Local where it matters. Fast where it counts.
Solon maintains strict data containment. Heavy folders stay fully local on your device, while standard conversation dialogs run through secure, stateless cloud pipelines that do not store files.
BoundarySolonGeneric AI
Heavy case filesStay on your deviceUsually uploaded
CitationsFile and line groundedOften missing
Legal workflowBuilt into the workspacePrompt dependent
Team filesShared folder readyManual copy/paste
Native Desktop Application
Solon runs as a lightweight, lightning-fast, local application for macOS and Windows. It reads directly from your folder structure, keeping files on your own device for all parsing, analysis, and grounding.
✓ macOS, Windows & Linux Ready
Early Access
Secure your spot on the waitlist today.
Solon is currently launching in private preview. Join the waitlist to receive priority access, product updates, and be the first to know when the native installers are available for download.
Private beta capacity37% Capacity
The Blog
Tech Dispatches & Updates
Dispatch #1By Verantu Labs Tech
Introducing Solon: The Lawgiver Behind the Workspace
Solon of Athens (c. 630 - c. 560 BC) was a lawmaker, merchant, and poet, revered as one of the Seven Sages of Greece. He laid the foundational principles of Athenian democracy by replacing the harsh, punitive statutes of Draco with a unified, balanced legal code. His reforms established a structured framework where justice and order applied to all.
When Verantu Labs set out to build an AI-native workspace for modern legal work, we chose the name Solon because it represents the codification of fair, structured, and accessible legal workflows. Solon runs locally on your machine, referencing your files and providing cited, grounded guidance - aiming to reduce daily administrative friction.
This introductory history is our first mock entry. Once we launch the product, our engineering and product teams will use this space to share the real story behind building Solon - our architectural choices, local context models, and document parsing pipelines.
FAQ
A few practical answers.
How is Solon different from ChatGPT or Claude?+
ChatGPT and Claude are general-purpose AI chat apps. Solon is a legal workspace. It is designed around legal documents, matters, citations, drafting, research, review, and local file context.
What is Solon?+
Solon is our first product: an AI-native legal workspace for lawyers, law firms, legal teams, and law students. It is designed for deep research, review, and drafting in a local-first desktop application.
What operating systems is Solon available on?+
Solon is built as a fast, lightweight desktop app with native support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Do my files leave my machine?+
Solon is designed around a hybrid model. Your files remain local on your device, while only the specific text fragments required for an immediate AI request are processed over secure, temporary connections.