Designing and shipping an AI product in under 24 hours, solo.
Built for the Replit 10 Year Hackathon on 2-3 May 2026: Replit's anniversary build sprint, where teams ship a working AI product in 24 hours using Replit Agent. I shipped three products in one. A free AI lease reader that reads any US lease in 15 seconds and cites the actual state law. A curated 50-state legal-aid directory. And a built-in AI chatbot that knows every state's tenant rules.
Replit gave 24 free hours of their AI Agent. I gave myself a tighter brief.
Ship a real product for real people. Live URL by the deadline. Brand from scratch. Two audiences from day one. A tool that protects renters who sign and landlords who issue, with one product working both jobs.
"Both sides deserve a fair read."
Brand came before product. Editorial register, hand-built character.
Cream, sage, clay, Fraunces italic. An editorial register that reads like a thoughtful magazine. 32 hand-coded SVG icons and 6 big illustrations. A renter signing a 35-page contract has to feel the tool is on their side before they'll trust the analysis.
Reads any US lease in 15 seconds. Cites the actual statute.
Returns a state-tagged action plan with the red flags, the missing tenant protections, and the exact questions to ask before signing. Every flag links to the live state code on the public legislature page.
Two databases underneath. 50-state tenant law and a curated legal-aid directory.
The interactive state map
The visual entry point on the homepage. Click any state to see the tenant laws that apply, the protections renters get, and the local legal-aid services that exist there. Covers all 50 states, DC, and 6 US territories.
The 50-state legal-aid directory
The other database. A curated directory of free legal-aid services for every state, DC, and territory. Built because the renters most likely to get burned by a bad lease are the ones least likely to have a lawyer on call.
Ask the Lease. State-aware, streaming, no transcripts stored.
A floating chatbot that answers state-specific tenant questions in plain English: notice required for entry in California, deposit caps in Texas, eviction timelines in New York. Streams responses, never stores transcripts. Built for the renter who reads the analysis and has one more question.
In 24 hours.
Built on familiar tools. Held to a standard.
What 24 hours of solo shipping taught me.
Brand decides trust before the AI runs. People judge a tool in the first three seconds, before any analysis happens. Data quality beats model quality. A citation only works if the source is real.
Next: a custom domain, a non-profit partnership for the resources hub, and a voice mode so a renter can call the chatbot from the doorstep of a viewing.
I'm Ishmael. London-born, Black British, designer who ships.
Seven years shipping client websites, the last two running CoverTurn, the studio I founded in 2024. Brand, interface, production code, deploy. I own delivery end to end.
Available for one embedded partner. One agency or product team, 20 hours a week, shipped under your brand. Also open to founding-designer and design-engineer roles.
Background: A View at Hampstead with Stormy Weather, John Constable, ca. 1830. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public Domain · CC0.