I never planned to build legal software. I was a software engineer, deeply involved in community work as a volunteer and trustee of a local community centre here in Croydon, UK. Then everything changed. In 2014, internal disputes exploded into police complaints, emergency meetings, and multiple court hearings. What started as community service became a legal battle that would consume the next several years of my life. From mid-2015 to November 2017, two and a half years, I wrote my witness statement. Not because I was slow. Not because I lacked dedication. But because I didn't know how. I was learning the language of the court from scratch, piecing together minutes, emails, accounts, and correspondence, trying to structure it all into something a judge would accept. At the beginning, I didn't even know what an affidavit was. We won the case in March 2018. The court removed the opposing trustee and confirmed control to the proper trustees. It should have felt like victory. Instead, it left a question I couldn't shake: "If it took me, an educated, English-speaking software engineer, two and a half years to write one usable statement, what happens to people who don't have my advantages?" That question haunted me. I went back to my career in machine learning, but I couldn't let it go. The injustice of it kept surfacing: ordinary people shouldn't need years and thousands of pounds just to tell their story in court. In early 2022, I started building the tool I wish I'd had. Not as a business idea, but as an answer to that question. A way to guide normal people through the same structuring work that had consumed my life, but in hours instead of years. From 2022 through 2024, the weekend prototype evolved into myAffidavit.ai: a cross-platform desktop application that uses local AI to help people build court-ready affidavits and witness statements. Everything stays on their computer. No uploads. No subscriptions. No ongoing costs. Just a tool that does what I needed back in 2015. Today, myAffidavit.ai is my attempt to turn two and a half years of struggle into something useful: a practical, affordable way for ordinary people to access justice without suffering through what I did. Because if the legal system is going to demand formal statements from everyone, the least we can do is give everyone the tools to create them.

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Draft. Verify. File.

Draft. Verify. File.