Ee-ra

founder - legali ai - stanford law '24

building a trauma-informed companion for women experiencing abuse!

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

the backlog was never the job. judgment was. we run lea, a trauma-informed companion app for abuse survivors, and ai agents write most of our code. the humans moved to the taste layer: deciding WHICH thing deserves building. here's why that's the better deal: → typing was never the moat → 1,500+ people on lea, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars, 15 languages → team from apple, berkeley eecs, stanford law, harvard med. we need builders and backers who get it. dms open. app store: https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ google play: https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

@russbroomell @Trace_Cohen this is the realest take on this thread. pre-seed founder here and i already feel it: everyone celebrates the round, nobody asks what the money actually buys. 3x ARR is the story, the raise is just the receipt. more founder-building pods, fewer term-sheet pods

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

@fedepontehq fellow sf solo founder here. building lea, a trauma-informed companion app for abuse survivors, 15 languages, zero data retention. we use ai agents to write most of our code, which is the only way a team this small ships weekly. what are you building?

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

"my title said frontend. my mindset was a founder's." going to steal that framing. i'm the founder side of a small team building lea, a trauma-informed companion app for abuse survivors, and the engineers who behave like owners are the reason we ship weekly with a tiny headcount. whoever lands you next is getting a founder, whatever the badge says.

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

the approve-once pattern is the whole unlock. we learned the hard version of it building lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors: an agent acting inside someone's Gmail and Calendar can't ask for a yes at every step, but it also can't move money or send anything without the one sign-off. hand off in writing, approve once, and log what it touched. that's the difference between an assistant people trust and one they uninstall.

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

the pitch is the easy part. i learned it in an afternoon. the business is the part that fights back. what actually got lea (i'm building it, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors) its first users was the opposite of demo day: sitting with the users and shipping what they asked for the same week. ZERO decks were involved. demo day teaching a five-minute customer call would change more companies than the pitch practice ever will.

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

queueing this one. i'm on the founder side of that exact gap, building lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, and deep dives like this are how we figure out what to demand from our own stack. would love to see an episode on ai in survivor-facing legal work someday: iOS https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ Android https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

not a texas lawyer, so just one tip that travels: write down every interaction as it happens and keep it somewhere only you can reach. family courts lean hard on documentation. i'm building lea, a trauma-informed companion that turns that into an organized, private record you can hand your attorney: iOS https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ Android https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

the all-nighter nobody sees is the part that actually wins the pilot. we ship lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, and our ai agents write most of the code: 1,500+ people on it, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars. we're moving it onto our own locally hosted model so nothing people share is kept or fed to any outside ai. we need builders and backers who get it. dms open

https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ
https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

the stages only get funnier when you're the founder living in one. we're at the part nobody has a name for: 1,500+ people on lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, zero data retention, and we're moving it onto our own locally hosted model so nothing people share is kept or fed to any outside ai. 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars. we need builders and backers who get it. dms open

https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ
https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

agree, and the founders this space needs are ones who know safety work is invisible when it's working. we built lea for abuse survivors: trauma-informed companion, zero data retention, and we're moving it onto our own locally hosted model so nothing people share is kept or fed to any outside ai. 1,500+ people, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars. dms open

https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ
https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

women's health and women's safety sit in the same under-invested bucket. we built lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, and we're moving it onto our own locally hosted model so nothing people share is kept or fed to any outside ai. 1,500+ people on lea, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars. we need builders and backers who get it. dms open

https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ
https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

running the local models yourself before trusting them is the right instinct for legal work. we built lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, and we're moving it onto our own locally hosted model for exactly this: zero data retention, nothing people share is kept or fed to any outside ai. curious what your GLM + qwen runs show

https://t.co/33ZQnTWSxb
https://t.co/LNrdosnS5p

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

scoring rationales shown next to the ranking is the part most legal-ai benchmarks hide. we built lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, and our hardest eval rows are the REFUSALS: what the model does when someone describes harm. bookmarking this

https://t.co/33ZQnTWSxb
https://t.co/LNrdosnS5p

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

you can't ship for people in crisis without measuring what SAFE actually looks like. here's why we treat evals as the product: → we built lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, and evals are how we test what it refuses, how it de-escalates, and what it never stores → zero data retention, and we're moving onto our own locally hosted model so nothing people share leaves their hands → 1,500+ people on lea, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars, live in 15 languages. we need builders and backers who get it. dms open. app store: https://t.co/33ZQnTWSxb google play: https://t.co/LNrdosnS5p

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

the best builds start with conversations like this. we learned it making lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, where ai agents write most of the code: raw capability matters less than designing for what a person in crisis can actually do. zero data retention, and we're moving lea onto our own locally hosted model. ios: https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ android: https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

orchestrating so you're not glued to the machine is the whole unlock. we run the same way: we built lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, with ai agents writing most of the code while we stayed close to the 1,500+ survivors and 25+ institutions using it daily. agents shipped fast, users told us what actually worked. also zero data retention and we're moving lea onto our own locally hosted model, so nothing people share leaves their hands. ios: https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ android: https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

a finished project proves you can finish. proof of engineering ability is what SURVIVES contact with real users. here's why: → we built lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, with ai agents writing most of the code → 1,500+ survivors and 25+ institutions use it daily, and their feedback reshaped the product more than any code review would → shipping is table stakes. listening is the skill. zero data retention, moving onto our own locally hosted model. ios: https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ android: https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

being an outsider to a market is an asset if you actually go sit with the users. legal is where we live now too: lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors. knew the law before building, but the product came from listening to survivors, not reading statutes. here's why that matters:
→ 1,500+ people on lea, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars, live in 15 languages
→ zero data retention, PIN-locked vault, and we're moving lea onto our own locally hosted model
→ ~7m organic views, $0 on ads. team from apple, berkeley eecs, stanford law, stanford gsb, wharton, harvard med
we need builders and backers who get it. dms open.
app store: https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ
google play: https://t.co/LNrdosopUX

[Ee-ra @eerabuilds]

that lanyard wall is a whole startup resume. building in the same spirit from the other side of the stage: lea, a trauma-informed companion for abuse survivors, now with 1,500+ users, 25+ institutions, 4.8 stars, 15 languages, zero data retention, and we're moving it onto our own locally hosted model. team from apple, berkeley eecs, stanford law, stanford gsb, wharton, harvard med. we need builders and backers who get it. dms open. app store: https://t.co/33ZQnTXqmJ play: https://t.co/LNrdosopUX