NoCamels — the English-language publication covering Israeli innovation for a global audience — published one of the earliest and most detailed profiles of Darrow, tracing the company's founding through the personal experiences of its three co-founders and Ben Artzi's articulation of what it actually means to democratize the justice system.
The origin story is told through Ben Artzi and Spiegelman's time as law clerks at the Israeli Supreme Court, where they encountered a legal system that was dismissing cases not because the underlying violations didn't exist, but because no one could find them. Doom-scrolling on their phones after work, they saw violation after violation — privacy breaches, consumer fraud, air pollution, overcharges — that never made it to a courtroom. When they shared the problem with Gila Hayat, she reframed it immediately: this wasn't a legal problem, it was an intelligence problem. Information existed, but no one had the tools to find it, connect it, and turn it into a coherent legal story.
Ben Artzi's explanation of what Darrow actually does is one of the clearest in any publication: the machine detects harmful events in real-world data, assigns them legal meaning, and puzzles together obscure data points from different sources into a single coherent narrative — one that tells attorneys not only that something happened, but what it means legally, how many people were harmed, what the case is worth, and how likely it is to succeed.
The piece also draws out the bigger ambition. Darrow doesn't call itself a legal tech company — it's a justice intelligence platform, because it's not trying to make the legal profession more efficient. It's trying to fix what the legal system was built to do but consistently fails to accomplish: hold corporations accountable for the harm they cause. Ben Artzi's framing is direct: injustice has a price, and the system needs to be able to see it.
