Developer Builds AI Tool to Assess Government Court Readiness for AI Adoption

A government employee built Verity Lex during OpenAI Build Week to evaluate whether public institutions are actually prepared to adopt AI, rather than assuming they are. The tool targets California superior courts, starting with Santa Barbara, reading publicly available court records and checking them against published legal standards. A key design principle separates AI perception from human-style judgment: GPT-5.6 and Tavily handle document discovery and extraction, while a deterministic TypeScript rule engine assigns the final readiness score with no model involvement. This ensures the score is fully reproducible and auditable, addressing a core concern that government procurement cannot rely on outputs that vary between AI runs. The developer argues that AI vendors currently sell to public institutions without first understanding them, and Verity Lex is designed to diagnose institutional readiness before any solution is pitched.