Elahi: System is more accurate than a human
A 25-year-old solicitor apprentice has described using artificial intelligence (AI) to build a medical report reviewing tool for personal injury lawyers which he has already sold to five law firms.
Amir Elahi, founder of Reawoken [1], said law firms had tested the AI-based tool for free before signing up for between £350 and £650 a month, depending on their size.
Mr Elahi, who works for Kinetic Law in Blackburn, left school at 16 and said he had to take to a special exam to become a solicitor apprentice because he had no A Levels.
He said the five law firms and one orthopaedic surgeon who have signed up came to him through word of mouth or internet searches. Later this month he plans to launch a marketing campaign.
Mr Elahi said it was a “no-brainer” for them because Reawoken was “more accurate than a human”.
Law firms had tested this on a free two-week subscription, comparing the AI tools’ results to medical records they had reviewed by hand.
“They always see that our results are more accurate and that’s why they convert.”
Having reviewed personal injury medical reports for eight years, he said they posed a number of problems for law firms.
They came in different sizes, from 100 to 1,000 pages, and the problem was time, as lawyers had to review each page.
The next problem was the quality of the review, as medical reports were often given to junior staff with very little experience or were badly reviewed by more experienced lawyers.
Mr Elahi said the arrival of ChatGPT inspired him to build his own AI-based tool. “I was fascinated by it and I thought it was amazing.”
The first thing he built was a legal chatbot to answer questions about personal injury cases, but “the issue was compliance” and his concern that if the chatbot answered questions incorrectly, people might be able to sue him.
After that, he “sat back for a bit and watched AI grow” until it got to the point where it could be relied on.
He began working on Reawoken in March last year, built it with the help of AI assistant Claude and launched it in September.
“I knew I could build a solution for medical reports. Sheer confidence led me to it.”
The challenge he found was employing tech people to help design Reawoken. Having paid a few of them them for “half a job or a rubbish job”, he taught himself to code, though most of the tool was built by AI.
“I wanted to build a copy of myself and the way I review medical records. That might sound cocky but I know I’m really good at my job. It’s like me reviewing 1,000 pages in under three minutes.”
Mr Elahi said he was on course to qualify as a solicitor at Kinetic Law in 2029.
“My passion is building systems and AI. I will continue with the law, but that may not be as a solicitor but as an innovator.”
He said other law firms had offered him jobs. “I’m not after another job. I’m trying to build a business.” Nor, at the moment, did he need external investment in Reawoken.