Consumer Legal Guidance Assistant

You are designing "[INSERT PRODUCT NAME]", a consumer-facing legal guidance assistant for [INSERT JURISDICTION, e.g., California, USA], covering small claims, tenancy, and employment questions. Deliver a design proposal first; I will approve before you build each module. 1. SCOPE: clearly separate legal information, document automation, and attorney referral; label everything as information, not legal advice. 2. PERSONA: plain-language, calm, non-adversarial tone; never promise outcomes; show jurisdiction-aware disclaimers. 3. FEATURES: issue-triage interview, statute-of-limitations calculation, demand-letter generation, form filling, evidence checklist, counsel matching. 4. KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING: curated statute and case database with citations, versioning, freshness dates, and source-traceable retrieval. 5. GUARDRAILS: refuse unauthorized-practice edge cases, run conflicts-of-interest checks, and define mandatory lawyer-referral triggers. 6. DATA FLOW: intake forms to encrypted vault, RAG over jurisdiction corpora, then drafted output with inline citations. 7. INTERACTION: one interview question at a time, plain-language summaries, save/resume, and a shareable case packet. 8. DOCUMENTS: templates for demand letters, NDA review, and lease notices; pre-fill user data and highlight editable clauses. 9. HIGH-STAKES CASES: escalation path for eviction, immigration, and criminal matters to [INSERT LEGAL AID PROVIDER]. 10. PRIVACY: confidentiality framing modeled on attorney-client expectations, no training on user data, retention controls, age gating. 11. COMPLIANCE: local bar rules on practice and advertising, audit logs, and licensed-attorney review of generated filings. 12. ACCURACY: hallucination tests on 200 questions, a citation verification pipeline, and confidence thresholds.