Starting a company

AI is inevitably taking over our lives. In this age, anyone—especially young people—must adopt new tools or fall behind. It has turned out to be of great help in my own occupations and interests.

To paraphrase Sabeer Bhatia, “entrepreneurship” in the 21st century is about solving problems using technology. I started my entrepreneurial journey and launched a company, EdTeX Technologies, to solve three problems I have been working on for some time.

Two of these problems involve structured technical writing (legal documents and IPO prospectuses). The third is the crisis in high school education.

AI and Notion

People are using AI for help with writing, but usually in an ad hoc manner, using one-line prompts. However, my work is focused on long, complex documents—especially writing legal documents and drafting a full IPO prospectus.

I developed two systems on Notion, the world’s best AI-based productivity platform. They go beyond one-line prompts by using databases and scaffolds to organize information and to draft long documents in a structured way.

Legal writing

Writing legal documents is both time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it also requires a high level of knowledge and skill. Finding and inserting the correct dates, references, amounts, rules and regulations, and so on takes time—and takes the pleasure out of real brain work. Then one has to write and rewrite using the right legal language and tone, and make tables and lists.

Researching and keeping track of recent judgments also requires time and effort. AI now handles much of this, so I do not have to.

I use AI tools to reduce the workload by about 80%. I created a platform on Notion that almost automates:

• organizing case documents
• legal research
• drafting and revising documents
• keeping track of meetings, appearances, billing, and other essential law-firm tasks

It is more than just a tool; it is a response to a larger systemic problem. In India, judges/adjudicators often do not read the tons of legal pleadings that get submitted. The documents are poorly written (often deliberately so), full of unnecessary, repetitive, and irrelevant arguments. Usually, both sides are stretching the truth, and there is no point reading line by line. The courtroom scene becomes a yelling match between big-name lawyers.

The platform I developed is also an ideal tool for arbitrators (and for judges and other government adjudicators, if they choose to use it) to analyze submissions and write decisions. AI can handle everything, including transcribing and summarizing hearings.

The paid version is available for $100, called Legal Eagle. I also have a free version, Legal Junior, which is sufficient for young advocates working on a small number of cases. Both are built so that a single person, with basic discipline, can do the work of a small team.

Stock Market prospectus

To file an IPO requires a prospectus—about 200 pages in fine print, with all kinds of technical information about the company. To write such a document, one needs technical knowledge, good writing skills, and patience for repetitive work—not to mention the formatting required to publish a large technical book.

It is time-consuming and expensive to train young people, especially in India, where useful education in colleges is sorely lacking.

The process of producing prospectuses is a logistical nightmare. A firm may be handling multiple prospectuses at once, coordinating with different companies, and constantly collecting and revising documents and information. As a result, the quality of many prospectuses for SME companies is poor. If a document gets past regulators, it is treated as “good enough”.

Again, AI can do around 80% of the work. I designed a platform on Notion to handle both the logistics and the writing. This has reduced to days what would otherwise take months.

The benefits are not hard to see: preparing a prospectus, especially for large companies, is expensive. What is clear is that this platform makes the process far more efficient—and can make high-quality work affordable for smaller companies as well.

No more exams

Everyone agrees that exam-based learning in schools and colleges has ruined Indian education. High-stakes competitive exams have caused the mushrooming of coaching centers, forcing students to memorize information they will never need—while depriving them of essential skills like critical thinking, hands-on learning, and even basic speaking and writing.

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A solution lies in a system of continuous evaluation for high school students, together with a platform that shows progress without the need for high-stakes exams. The goal is to allow students to learn from mistakes rather than be penalized once a year.

The proposed system of Xchool is:

• vastly scalable
• suitable for individual self-study and homeschooling
• usable by fully fledged schools that want to move beyond rote learning

If fully implemented, it would greatly reduce the need for coaching and high-stakes exams, which have crippled Indian education.

While this is a sizable project and must be implemented in stages, the basic system can be used immediately for:

• self-study for school board and competitive exams
• homeschooling
• traditional schools that want to simplify grading and evaluation using AI

In all these cases, AI takes over repetitive checking and record-keeping, leaving teachers with more time to meaningfully engage with students.

India cannot afford the dysfunctional old system anymore. The proposed system would benefit not only India, but also China and any other country that depends on competitive exams.

Objects of the company

The above are my initial proposals for the company’s objectives.

EdTeX Technologies will produce practical technologies and workflow solutions for professional use in three areas to begin with:

• legal practice
• IPO and capital-markets documentation
• school and exam-level education

In each of these areas, the idea is the same: adopt AI-based systems and structured workflows to replace outdated manual processes. Adoption of such technologies is becoming necessary for productivity—and for survival—in the modern professional and corporate environment.

Stay tuned for further developments.