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Ibrahim Arief is building a legal AI startup from city detention

Ibrahim Arief did not set out to found a legal tech startup. He set out to stay out of prison. The former VP (Engineering) at Bukalapak, widely known as Ibam in the startup circle, is a defendant in Indonesia’s Chromebook procurement case, the graft prosecution that also ensnared former education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem […] The post Ibrahim Arief is building a legal AI startup from…

Ibrahim Arief is building a legal AI startup from city detention

Ibrahim Arief, a former VP at Bukalapak, is a defendant in Indonesia's Chromebook procurement case, which also involved former education minister Nadiem Makarim. Facing a case with approximately 5,000 documents and testimony from around 400 witnesses, Arief developed a tool called Vindica.ai to aid defense teams during live trials.

Vindica.ai uses AI-powered fact-finding to generate a chronological list of witnesses' meetings, cross-checking them against every other witness and tracing their link to thousands of items of evidence. The tool runs a swarm of heterogeneous agentic models, acting as an adversarial council, and an auxiliary auditor agent verifies every response against primary source pages.

Vindica's founder claims that the tool helps in cross-examining hostile witnesses in real time and can expose invented facts that could jeopardize a defense's credibility.

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