Why AI Detector Pro Exists
Built by someone who learned the hard way that AI lies with a straight face.
It Started with a Landlord
In 2024, we were dealing with a landlord dispute. Couldn't afford an attorney. Like a lot of people in that situation, we turned to AI for help drafting legal documents.
ChatGPT gave us citations that looked perfect. Real case names. Real reporters. Real volume and page numbers. They passed a surface-level check. Any reasonable person would have stopped there and filed.
But something didn't sit right. So we spent hours - hours - reading entire court opinions cover to cover, only to discover they had absolutely nothing to do with our case. A statute about serving corporations cited in a case involving an individual defendant. A landlord-tenant case from a completely different legal context. The citations were real. They were just wrong.
The concrete example: Florida Statute § 48.081 - service of process on domestic corporations - cited in a motion involving an individual defendant. The statute is real. It exists. It verified clean. It was completely wrong for our case. Most people would not have caught that. They would have filed it.
The System Is Rigged Against Regular People
Here's what we realized: the tools to catch these errors exist. Westlaw, LexisNexis, comprehensive legal databases that can tell you in seconds whether a citation is valid and relevant. But they cost thousands of dollars a month. They're built for law firms, not for the person sitting at their kitchen table at 2 AM trying to figure out how to fight an eviction.
The legal system is supposed to be accessible to everyone. In practice, it's a system where the side with more money gets better tools, better representation, and better outcomes. When a corporation or a well-funded opponent decides to drag you through the courts, they're betting that you can't keep up. That you'll make a mistake. That the cost of fighting will break you before the case is decided on its merits.
AI was supposed to level that playing field. Instead, it created a new trap. Now regular people are filing documents full of hallucinated citations - cases that don't exist, statutes that don't apply - and they don't even know it. Judges are sanctioning attorneys for it. Imagine what happens to a pro se litigant who doesn't have a bar card to protect them.
So We Built the Thing That Should Already Exist
AI Detector Pro does one thing and does it well: it tells you whether the legal citations in your document are real, and whether they actually apply to your case.
Upload a pleading. Every statute is checked against the complete Florida Statutes index - all 637 chapters, over 24,800 sections, scraped directly from the Florida Senate's website. Every rule is checked against the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Every case citation is verified through CourtListener, Google Scholar, and multiple search engines.
Then the system goes further: even if a citation is real, does it actually apply? Is it about the right subject matter? The right type of party? The right court? That's where most AI errors hide - not in fake citations, but in real ones used in the wrong context.
Then We Realized: It Works Both Ways
We built ADP to check our own documents. But then something happened that changed how we thought about the tool entirely.
During settlement negotiations, opposing counsel handed us printouts of individual cases she was citing - the case law she was using to pressure us into settling. Her arguments felt overwhelming. Stacks of citations. Confident language. The kind of thing that makes a pro se litigant think maybe I should just give up.
We ran them through ADP. Not a single one actually supported her argument. The cases were real. They existed. But when you actually read what they held, they had nothing to do with our situation. She was banking on the fact that we wouldn't check.
If you've ever faced a motion packed with citations and felt paralyzed because you couldn't possibly verify all of them - that's exactly why ADP lets you upload anyone's filing. Your documents. Their documents. AI-generated drafts. Every citation gets the same treatment: verified against real sources, checked for applicability.
Who This Is For
Pro se litigants who are representing themselves because they can't afford an attorney - or because no attorney would take their case. You're not a lawyer, but you're willing to do the work. You just need tools that don't lie to you.
Small business owners who are being bullied by bigger companies weaponizing the legal system. The ones who get served with a lawsuit designed to be so expensive to fight that you settle even when you're right. You need every document you file to be bulletproof.
Paralegals and small firm attorneys who are using AI to draft documents faster but need a verification layer before anything goes out the door. You know AI makes mistakes. You need a tool that catches them.
Accuracy Over Speed
We'd rather tell you we couldn't verify a citation than tell you it's fine when it's not. Every result is backed by real data from real sources.
Affordable Access
Legal verification shouldn't cost as much as legal representation. Our free tier shows you the problem. Our paid tiers help you fix it.
Not Legal Advice
We're a verification tool, not a law firm. We tell you what's real and what's not. What you do with that information is between you and your attorney - or your own judgment.
Florida First
We started with Florida because that's where we needed it. Every statute, every rule, every court - verified against authoritative Florida sources. Other states will come when we can do them right.
The Bottom Line
Nobody should lose a case because an AI made up a citation and they didn't have the tools to catch it. That's why ADP exists. Not because we wanted to build a tech company - because we needed this tool and it didn't exist.
If you've ever been in a situation where someone with more money tried to use the legal system to push you around, you know exactly why this matters. ADP is for you.