Contest It is a civic AI tool that tells NYC residents whether they should fight or pay a city summons in seconds. Upload a photo of your ticket (or type the violation code), and Gemini Vision OCR extracts the charge, cross-references it against 421,000+ real OATH hearing outcomes, and shows your actual dismissal probability with a ready-to-submit defense brief. It's built for the everyday New Yorker who gets a $300 sidewalk ticket and has no idea that historically, 45% of those get thrown out
“The biggest surprise was the data itself we found that for some of the most common NYC violations (noise, sidewalk snow, building maintenance), dismissal rates are shockingly high, yet almost nobody contests them because the process feels intimidating. The gap between "you'd probably win" and "people just pay" turned out to be the entire reason this project matters. On the technical side, we did”