Last updated: June 2026
MyDefenderFellow is an AI-powered thinking partner for people facing the legal system, whether you are defending others or defending yourself. It is not a law firm, not legal advice, and not a substitute for a licensed lawyer.
MyDefenderFellow is a thinking partner powered by the Anthropic Claude large language model. It is a place to think through what you are facing, organize the facts, understand the situation, and prepare. It works alongside the people who carry defence work: public defenders and advocates, and the person sitting at the kitchen table trying to defend themselves without a lawyer.
For a legal professional, it is a sounding board for thinking through strategy, reasoning out research, and carrying the weight of the work. For a person defending themselves, it translates what is happening into plain language and helps you walk in more prepared and less alone.
MyDefenderFellow can only work from what you share. Nothing here is signed or binding, so its read rests on your honesty about the facts. If details are left out, unclear, or inaccurate, its understanding is limited accordingly, and a confident or complete determination is not possible. We cannot be responsible for a read built on anything withheld or misstated.
MyDefenderFellow is powered by Anthropic's Claude, an AI trained with Constitutional AI, an approach designed to make a system helpful, honest, and genuinely useful to the person in front of it, rather than a black box optimized to keep you engaged.
That distinction is the whole point of your Fellow. It is not here to replace your lawyer, your own judgment, or the people who stand with you. It is here to make you more capable: to help you understand what you are facing, get your facts in order, and walk into the room more prepared and less alone.
The legal system can make people feel small, outmatched, and out of their depth, and it can grind down the professionals who work inside it. A Fellow exists to put some footing back under you, so that you meet what is in front of you as the most prepared version of yourself. The goal is more confidence to connect with the people who can actually help, not more dependence on an app.
Because it is built to be honest, your Fellow tells you plainly what it is and is not: not a law firm, not a substitute for a licensed lawyer, and only as accurate as the facts you give it.
MyDefenderFellow and Resonant Catalyst accept no liability for decisions or actions taken based on AI-generated content, or for outcomes based on incomplete, inaccurate, or withheld information. Content is for thinking and preparation only. Consult a licensed lawyer for legal decisions.
By using MyDefenderFellow, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this disclaimer.