Two convictions. One method for turning them into something that runs.
One is a decade old and about justice. The other came out of building the first one, and is about energy. They are not two hobbies — they are the same argument, made twice.
The argument is that public information does not become useful until somebody does the work of aiming it at a specific person. That work is a business.
I have carried the same idea for over a decade: that access to justice should not be a function of what you can pay for it. It has taken a different shape at every level of what I was actually capable of executing — a research question at TISS, a caseload at Actus and Naik Naik, a volunteer network across eight district legal authorities, an AI layer over thirty thousand regulations.
Every one of those was the same idea at the size I could build it that year. What it always wanted to be — what it now has to be — is the two-sided platform: a citizen who cannot name their problem on one side, an advocate with capacity nobody routes to them on the other, and a matching layer in between.
I have spent my life taking the best pieces of the people around me and trying to emulate them. That habit made me an open learner, but at some point I understood the other half of it: everything I consume, every pattern I notice, has to come back out as something made. Input is not a virtue on its own. It has to become product.
What Equalaw actually taught me is uncomfortable and useful. Access is not free — it is graded. A qualified reader gets information that is useful to them; everyone else gets a document. So ARAY does not apologise for that. It grades deliberately: one map of the global energy system, layered differently for the regulator, the generator, the trader, the lender and the buyer. The grading is the business model.
Equalaw says access should be free and proves how hard that is. ARAY accepts that access is graded and charges for the grades. Holding both at once is the whole point — you cannot price information honestly until you have tried to give it away.
Everything that actually runs.
5 of 6 are live and clickable from this page. The rest are named honestly as concepts.
Reading the room across languages and conversations. Named, scoped, and honestly not built yet.
Input has to become product.
An open approach to learning is only worth something if the consumption, the thinking and the pattern-recognition come back out as a thing that exists. That is the only rule I hold myself to, and it is why this site is a set of links rather than a set of claims.
01Inputs
Two years inside CERC reading the orders that move an energy market. Five years before that in courts and boardrooms. A habit of borrowing whatever works from whoever is doing it well.
02Processing
Pattern first, product second. Both companies started as the same observation — that the information exists, is public, and still reaches nobody who needs it in a form they can act on.
03Product
Nothing on this site is a deck. Every claim links to something running: a live map with a published method, a working intake API, five research dashboards, four shipped apps.
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Who is building this.
Shreyash — Research Officer (Law) at the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, and the founder of Equalaw since 2023.
