Minds Behind Real-time Intelligence Agent (RIA) – Gunjan Paharia & Jasminder Singh Gulati

In this episode of the LawWiser’s Special Podcast, we sit down with Gunjan Paharia, and Jasminder Singh Gulat, the AI architect behind RIA (Real-time Intelligence Agent) – a purpose-built AI tool reshaping how trademark and IP law firms manage decades of client data.

Gunjan shares the founding philosophy of Zeus IP (started in 2004), why intellectual property work is fundamentally different from other legal practice areas because trademarks can outlive the lawyer, the firm, and even the client, and how that reality created the need for AI-driven docketing, evidence compilation, and portfolio management.

Jasminder breaks down how RIA moves beyond simple keyword search to understand intent across millions of documents, the small language model architecture built for data privacy, and how the system was layered onto Zeus IP’s two decades of structured internal data.

We also dig into how AI is changing the day-to-day workflow of IP lawyers, freeing up time from “grunge work” so junior lawyers can focus on critical thinking and strategy, and why Gunjan believes RIA accelerates the work that precedes a lawyer’s decision without ever replacing the decision itself.