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eosIQ

A legal AI platform for nonprofits, built on patterns users already trust.

eosIQ answers legal and governance questions for nonprofits, and most of the people asking aren't lawyers.

Client: eosIQ (For Purpose Law Group)
Scope: Product Design • UI Redesign • Feature Design
Year: 2026
Location: USA
Credits: Miew.io project (opens in a new tab)

Summary

Designing a legal AI that earns trust before it earns use

eosIQ gives nonprofit boards and staff answers on legal, governance, finance and people questions, drafted by AI and grounded in their own documents. The product already worked. The redesign had to make it feel safe to people who had never used a legal tool.

An audit of every surface, from login to Library, pointed to three principles: make it familiar, make it legible, and keep every answer tied to the documents behind it.

The Audit

A first screen carrying more than it needed.

The old first screen: a gradient behind the sidebar and prompt, a paragraph for the empty state and a token count under the prompt

A gradient under every surface
Sidebar and input sit on it at 50% opacity, so readability shifts with the background.
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An empty state explained in a paragraph
Four lines of text to say there are no chats yet.
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A token count on the main task
“50.000 tokens” under the prompt, an account metric on the screen meant for asking.
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Missing what makes a tool feel finished.

The old conversation screen: dark only, no actions under the answer and Library at the bottom of the sidebar

No light mode
Dark only, whatever the setting or the time of day.
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No way to rate or copy an answer
Replies end with nothing to act on.
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A menu split in two
Library sits at the bottom, next to the profile, far from New chat and the other actions it belongs with.
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A Library that only existed on top of a conversation.

The old Library overlay over a conversation: six category labels and no files until one is picked

Two buttons, one overlay
The Library link in the sidebar and the attach button in the prompt opened the same panel.
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Documents one step away
The panel opened on six category labels. Files only appeared after picking one.
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Nowhere to manage documents
No dedicated place to see, organise or remove files. Every change went through the chat.
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The Decisions

First screen

Patterns people already know, from the first screen

Nonprofit staff already use AI assistants at work. eosIQ follows the conventions those tools made familiar: a centred prompt on an otherwise quiet first screen, recent chats in the sidebar, and rate and copy actions under every answer.

There is nothing new to learn before the first question, which matters most for people who aren't sure their question is legal at all.

A quiet first screen, centred on the prompt

Readability

Readable on the gradient, in light and dark.

The gradient stayed, as the client asked. What changed is what sits on it: the sidebar, message bubbles and input became solid, opaque surfaces, so text no longer depends on where the gradient falls.

Light mode arrived as a preference, not a restyle. A toggle in the sidebar switches the same components between the two themes.

Before · translucent

2.7:1Fails AA

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After · solid, dark

6.5:1Passes AA

Ask anything

Move the glow

Documents

One place to manage documents, one button to use them.

The Library link in the sidebar now opens a page of its own. Files come first, each with its type, size, date and status, with search, upload and the six categories on top.

In a conversation, the + in the prompt opens Context, a panel built only for attaching: search, pick, and the file joins the question as a chip, so it's clear what the answer is based on.