An AI study companion for law

Built for how law is really learned.

An AI companion that reads alongside you, grounded in real authority and accurate enough to trust with your degree.

The companion

What the companion does

IRAC, the way your marker reads it

Ask a problem question and ashlo lays the answer out in clean IRAC: issue, rule, application, conclusion. Structured for marks, not a wall of text.

“Café Aroma serves Ms Tran scalding coffee. Advise on negligence.”

IRAC

Issue

Does Café Aroma owe Ms Tran a duty of care, and did serving scalding coffee breach it?

Rule

A duty is owed to one’s “neighbour” — those so closely affected you ought to have them in contemplation. The standard is that of a reasonable occupier.

Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562

Application

Ms Tran is a paying patron and plainly foreseeable. Coffee served near boiling, with no lid or warning, falls below the standard a reasonable café would meet.

Conclusion

A duty is owed and likely breached. Café Aroma is prima facie liable; consider contributory negligence in mitigation.

1928

The snail in the bottle

Mrs Donoghue falls ill after a ginger beer in a Paisley café.

1929

Writ issued

Proceedings begin against the manufacturer, Stevenson.

1931

Up to the Lords

The appeal reaches the House of Lords on a point of law.

1932

Duty established

The neighbour principle is born; modern negligence begins.

Chronology from any judgment

Feed ashlo a case and it pulls the facts into a clean timeline, so you can see exactly how the dispute unfolded.

Whole readings, summarised on drop

Drag in a week's readings and ashlo breaks every case down into issue, rule, held, ratio and chronology.

Donoghue v Stevenson

[1932] AC 562

HeldManufacturer owes a duty to the ultimate consumer.

Grant v Australian Knitting Mills

[1936] AC 85

HeldDuty extends to defective goods; reliance shown.

Caparo Industries v Dickman

[1990] 2 AC 605

HeldThree-stage test for a novel duty of care.

A manufacturer owes a duty of care to the ultimate consumer, where the goods reach them in the form they left the factory. No contractual relationship is required, a rule later codified by statute.

Verification node · checking every citation

Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562

UKHL

Grant v Australian Knitting Mills [1936] AC 85

Authority

Sappideen, Torts Commentary ch. 7

Outside source

Consumer Harmony Act 2019 (Cth) s 12

Unverified

Grounded, with the receipts

Every claim is cited to real authority and each source is checked. If something can't be verified, ashlo flags it instead of inventing it.

Integrity, by design

A study partner, not a ghostwriter.

ashlo teaches the reasoning and cites the authority behind every answer instead of handing you prose to paste in. Your words stay yours — built so you don’t get flagged.

Three founders, one quiet obsession with getting the law right.

Engineers and a markets mind who met at the University of Queensland, and decided law students deserved a study tool that could actually be trusted.

Co-founder · AI & Research

Zain Al-Saffi

A combined Bachelor and Master of Engineering student at UQ, where he works as a research assistant, tutors machine learning, and serves as president of the Computing Society. He is the first person in the history of Optiver's FutureFocus program to be offered both streams at once, joining as an incoming quantitative research intern, and was selected for Jane Street's SEE program in Hong Kong. Zain builds the systems that keep ashlo accurate, and cares enough about the law to read case law in his own time.

Co-founder · Growth & Strategy

Zac Kienzle

Studying a Bachelor of Advanced Finance and Economics, and someone who does his sharpest thinking under pressure: 9th in Australia at the IMC Prosperity Competition and a national finalist in the CBA Markets Competition. Zac shapes how ashlo reaches the students who need it, and how it earns their trust once it gets there.

Co-founder · Engineering

Abhinav Pradeep

A compilers and AI researcher at Oracle, flown out by Google for his contributions to LLVM and to present his work in Dublin. Abhinav makes ashlo fast and rigorous, the kind of system that holds up under the weight of real legal reasoning.

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