Legal AI built from inside the profession.
Kellys builds Kellys SQE Examiner — AI grading for SQE2 candidates, anchored on the SRA Performance Indicators. Built by someone who sat SQE2 and couldn’t find the feedback infrastructure he needed. Built to hold itself to the standard the profession holds its own work to.
Arvind, founder.
Arvind founded Kellys in 2026 to build serious legal AI for the UK market. He came at the work having sat SQE1 and SQE2 the same year — the assessments passed, currently undertaking the qualifying work experience required for admission as a solicitor of England and Wales. The conviction: the legal profession isn’t using AI anywhere near its capability. The work the profession actually does is structured enough to automate honestly — to give lawyers and candidates more output for less of the effort that doesn’t matter — and nobody was treating it that way.
When I sat SQE2 in 2025, the provider I’d paid couldn’t give me what I believe I needed. The timetable, the volume of students — the maths just didn’t work for enough graded mocks, especially the orals. I was lucky: I had friends who’d already sat SQE2 and could practise the orals with me. Most candidates don’t have that luxury. They practise alone, with no honest feedback, and that’s compounded by how small SQE2 cohorts are to begin with — the pass rate keeps them that way. Kellys SQE Examiner is the thing that didn’t exist. Built so the practice and the feedback are available to every candidate, the same way.
What Kellys stands for.
Three standards. One product. Every release.
Practitioner-side
Kellys SQE Examiner is built from inside the work the profession does, not pointed at it from the outside. The Performance Indicators, the conventions, the procedural detail — all come from the source the profession itself works from.
Anchored on published standards
Kellys judgement is anchored on criteria the regulator has already published — whether that is the SRA Performance Indicators, the Code of Conduct, or the procedural rules of the courts. No invented criteria, no outcome promises.
UK-first
Designed around the SRA Code of Conduct, UK GDPR, and the realities of English & Welsh practice from the first commit. Not a US product retrofitted with British spellings.