The honest version of the origin story: we were engineers who got tired of watching routine legal work priced out of
reach of the people who needed it most. So we went and got licensed. We did not, however, stop being engineers — we
started applying the discipline of one craft to the other. A pull request and a contract are closer than either
profession likes to admit: both are reviewed line by line, both fail in the edge cases, both are worse when a single
person is the only one who understands them.
Navigator is what fell out of that conviction. It is a harness — a deterministic checklist applied every time — that
grounds an LLM's output in a shared, database-backed vocabulary so the routine parts of legal drafting come out correct
and cheap. The lawyer still signs. The machine just makes it faster and more correct to be the lawyer who signs.