A reading desk for law students who still read the case.
Scriba started with a small frustration. Every study tool aimed at law students either handed you a pre-written brief or offered a general chatbot that would happily invent citations. Neither taught you to read a case.
We built the tool we wanted in law school — a plain reader, a FIRAC editor that assembles itself from what you highlighted, an outline builder that stitches a semester of briefs into an exam-ready scaffold, and an AI assistant that can only cite passages you have actually read.
Why a notebook, not a chatbot
The best law students we knew all did the same three things: they read slowly, they wrote their briefs by hand, and they rewrote their outlines the week before the exam. None of that is faster with a chatbot. It is faster with better paper — a reader that keeps your highlights in one place, a brief that fills in the boilerplate so you can spend your time on the reasoning, and an outline that already knows what you covered.
So Scriba is quiet. There are no streaks, no XP, no "AI tutor" that pretends to know your professor. Just a page, your highlights, and the thinking that comes from doing the work.
What we believe
- The outline is the artifact of the study. Skip the study, and the outline is worthless.
- AI belongs in law school — but only in ways that leave the reasoning with the student.
- Honor codes deserve tools that make disclosure the easy path, not the awkward one.
- Quiet software beats loud software. No streaks that guilt-trip you, no notifications you have to mute.
- If a feature can't survive an academic-integrity review, it shouldn't ship.
Who we are
A small team of former law students and software engineers, working with input from current 1Ls, 2Ls, and clinical faculty. We are independent — no publisher, no bar-prep company, no VC pressure to bolt on features you didn't ask for. When you write to hello@scriba.live, one of us reads it.