Yale Law School ’26
Jeremy Rodrigues
Founder, GideonGrand Prize, 2026 Miller Prize
https://startup.yale.edu/people/Jeremy Rodrigues (Yale Law ’26, Schwarzman ’23) is a founder, Air Force Reserve Captain, and Pokémon International Champion. Legal AI incumbents are competing over the sliver of legal claims that ever reach a lawyer; he’s building Gideon for the ~100% that never will — starting in prisons, where the gap is most extreme. Gideon is an AI voice agent that turns a phone call into a correctly filed grievance — one that reaches independent oversight and preserves a legal claim that would otherwise be quietly waived. It launches in September 2026 across every Connecticut state prison, serving over 10,000 people.