Orange County · Legal technology, built to order

Software built around your practice,
not the other way around.

WYEA is a two-principal engineering firm serving Orange County law firms. We sit with your attorneys, learn how your matters move, and build the tool your practice needs. Our AI cites only what it can verify: every citation and reference is checked word for word against the source document, and anything that fails the check is flagged instead of asserted. No hallucinations, no guesswork.

Verified citations

A citation appears only when its exact quote is found in the source document. Anything the AI cannot verify is flagged for attorney review, so hallucinations never reach your filings.

Catered, not configured

No off-the-shelf platform bent to fit. We build for your document types, your local rules, your workflow, and nothing you don't use.

White-glove service

You work directly with the engineers who built your system. We train your staff, answer the phone, and keep improving the tool as your practice evolves.

What we build

Purpose-built tools for the work your firm does

Verified citations & referencing

Our systems treat your uploaded document as the source of truth. A citation is only asserted when the exact quote is found verbatim in the source. Everything else is flagged for attorney review. Nothing is invented.

Document review & drafting systems

Upload what you were served; get a grounded review and a first-draft response in your firm's pleading format. Built around your templates, your caption blocks, your signature lines.

Practice-workflow automation

Discovery-stage tooling, deadline flagging, matter and client organization, and conflict-check prompts, shaped to how California litigation moves.

Secure, firm-owned deployments

Tenant isolation, tamper-evident records, and audit trails as first-class engineering requirements, not afterthoughts. Your documents stay yours.

How we work

White-glove from the first meeting

  1. 01

    We come to you

    We start in your office, with your attorneys and staff, learning the practice area and the pain points, not working through a feature checklist.

  2. 02

    Working software in weeks

    We build against your real documents and real workflow, and put a working system in your hands early, so your team's feedback shapes the build.

  3. 03

    Deployed your way

    Cloud or on your own infrastructure, with security and confidentiality engineered in from day one.

  4. 04

    Supported, personally

    The engineers who built your system train your team and stay on call. When your practice changes, the software changes with it.

Confidentiality

Your documents are privileged. We build like it.

Everything we touch belongs to your clients. These three commitments come before the first working session:

Under NDA from day one

We sign a confidentiality agreement before we see a single document. Yours or ours, whichever your firm prefers.

Never used to train AI

Your clients' documents are never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. They stay in your firm's isolated environment, and they stay yours.

You can check our work

We build systems with audit trails and tamper-evident records, so you can verify what happened to a document rather than take our word for it.

Who we are

Two principals. No hand-offs.

Every WYEA engagement is led personally by the firm's two founding engineers.

Anderson Whittle

Principal Engineer & Co-Founder

Anderson has been at the cutting edge of machine-learning techniques and research since 2017, beginning at Georgia Tech. As a senior engineer at a fintech startup he helped scale the platform from a $20M to a $100M valuation, and inside a Fortune 100 bank he built machine learning for corporate risk technology. At WYEA he leads the engineering that makes AI safe to put in front of a law practice: grounding, verification, and security from the first line of code.

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Johnson Ye

Principal Engineer & Co-Founder

Johnson is a Senior Engineer at Amazon and a UC San Diego alum, with more than eight years in software and AI. At Amazon he led a third-party seller platform for one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, opening a new marketplace to thousands of merchants. At WYEA he leads product and delivery, starting with how a firm works and then building software that fits it exactly. Johnson cares about the small things, because the small things are what make people trust the whole.

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Start a conversation

Tell us about your practice.

A first conversation costs nothing and usually takes half an hour. We'll tell you honestly whether custom software is worth it for your firm, and what it would take.

whittle.anderson@gmail.com

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Serving law firms throughout Orange County, California.