Tomas
Your web3 legal agent
About
The problem it solves ## The problem it solves Building in Web3 is navigating a minefield of legal complexity. For founders, a brilliant technical idea is instantly met with a wall of daunting questions about tokenomics, regulatory compliance, and corporate structures. The fundamental problem is that the legal advice required to navigate this minefield is prohibitively expensive, slow to acquire, and fundamentally not *startup-friendly*. Innovators are forced into a difficult choice: * drain their limited budget on high-priced legal fees, **or** * move forward with unacceptable risk. This bottleneck stifles innovation and leaves the most creative builders unprotected. **iusTomas** solves this by acting as an accessible, on-demand *“Legal Co-Founder”* for Web3 projects. We created a Web3-native agent that lives in the same world as the founders it serves—it interacts via wallet and gets paid in crypto. It’s designed to give technical and financial founders the legal and strategic leverage they need to focus on building, not on budget-draining legal bills. --- ## What can people use it for? People use **iusTomas** to accelerate their project’s journey from a raw idea to a viable MVP with a solid strategic and legal foundation. * **Stress-Test a Web3 Idea** Before writing a single line of code, founders can engage iusTomas in a deep, Socratic dialogue (**Praefatio**) to explore their concept. They can analyze token viability, define the target audience, and identify potential regulatory hurdles—turning a vague idea into a structured plan. * **Generate Core MVP Documents** iusTomas can produce essential *Work Artifacts* critical for an MVP—drafting a preliminary Compliance Analysis, a Strategic Report on market positioning, or the initial Terms & Conditions for a platform. * **Build a “Case File” for Human Lawyers** The entire process creates a detailed case file (the **Dynamic Case Structure**). This structured brief can then be handed to a human lawyer, saving hours of diagnostic work and dramatically reducing legal costs. iusTomas acts as a *case accelerator*, making human expertise more efficient. --- ## How does it make existing tasks easier and safer? iusTomas makes elite-level strategic guidance accessible and safe for early-stage projects—something previously unimaginable. * **Radical Affordability** Automating the initial 80 % of diagnostic and drafting work provides access to strategic legal thinking typically reserved for heavily funded companies. * **On-Demand Expertise** The agent is available 24/7. Founders receive answers and documents in hours or days—not the weeks or months typical of traditional legal cycles—allowing them to maintain momentum when it matters most. * **A True Crypto-Native Experience** Founders interact in their native environment: they use their wallet as identity, pay with crypto, and receive proposals as on-chain verifiable agreements—no friction bridging Web2 and Web3 worlds. * **Safety Through Transparency** Our **Deliberative Cognitive Architecture** ensures the agent’s reasoning is transparent and auditable at every step. Combined with on-chain payment verification and the potential for human review selected by **Chainlink VRF**, we’ve built a system designed for trust, allowing founders to build on a foundation they can actually verify.
How it's made
Challenges we ran into ## Challenges I ran into Building iusTomas meant tackling two fundamental challenges, each requiring a unique blend of architectural design, domain expertise, and deep Web3 integration. ### Challenge 1 — The On-Chain / Off-Chain Bridge: Orchestrating a Secure Dialogue Between Worlds The core vision is an AI with real-world agency, triggered and governed by on-chain events. The hurdle: how can a stateless, deterministic smart contract securely command a powerful, stateful off-chain AI? #### Our Solution We designed a trust-minimized bridge centered around **Chainlink**, where the smart contract acts as the *gatekeeper* for every critical action. 1. **The Problem** We couldn’t allow just anyone to call the expensive *Scriptum* workflow (our autonomous AI process). The trigger had to be cryptographically tied to a user’s verified payment for a specific proposal. 2. **The Solution — Chainlink as a Secure Execution Gate** The `ProposalPaymentContract` does more than receive funds—it orchestrates a sophisticated workflow: * When a user pays for a proposal, the contract verifies the payment. * Instead of the backend “listening” for this event, the smart contract **initiates** the call using **Chainlink Functions**. * A **secret** is generated and stored on the decentralized oracle network (DON). Only the Chainlink Function can access this secret and include it in the call to our backend. * The backend validates the secret, guaranteeing that the request to start the AI’s autonomous work was both paid for *and* legitimately initiated from the blockchain. This architecture creates a secure, one-way bridge where on-chain logic gives precise, verifiable instructions to the off-chain AI. ### Challenge 2 — Deconstructing Legal Expertise: Translating an “Art” into Code How do you translate the nuanced, intuitive *art* of legal advice into a logical framework an AI can execute? #### Our Solution We developed the **Deliberative Cognitive Architecture (ACD)** to mirror human legal reasoning. 1. **The Problem** Avoid the *chatbot trap* of superficial answers; imbue the AI with structured reasoning. 2. **The Solution — Codifying the Legal Mind** * Deconstructed the legal advisory process into machine-executable stages—our *Processus* agents: **Praefatio** (Diagnostician), **Cognitio** (Synthesizer), **Investigato** (Researcher), and **Respondeo** (Drafter). * Created the **Dynamic Case Structure (DCS)**, a real-time “case file” the AI builds and refines throughout the dialogue, forcing explicit legal syllogism: stating known facts (minor premise), applying rules (major premise), and forming testable hypotheses. Transforming lived legal expertise into a formal computational model was a massive endeavor—but it turns a simple text generator into a true reasoning partner.