Cofounded by Utkarsh Saxena and Arghya Bhattacharya, it joined Y Combinator's F26 batch in August 2026 and described itself as YC's first nonprofit in nearly five years. Courtroom audio and transcripts are claimed to stay in Indian data centers with no third-party inference APIs; the citizen WhatsApp helpline runs on public court records and uses Anthropic's Claude for summarization and translation. Adalat's site listed 11 partner states and 20–25% nationwide courtroom coverage as of August 2026.