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At the age of 19, Joshua Browder began studying at Stanford University. After being hit with a barrage of parking tickets, Browder realized that the "formulaic nature" of the parking tickets called for a relatively straight forward appeals process of those tickets. After going through the process himself, Browder launched DoNotPay as a chat bot to assist drivers in the UK and New York in appealing their parking tickets. Browder came from a background of civic technology and human rights. At 16, he created the mobile application for Freedom House and also worked with Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, David J. Kramer, to make the Freedom of the World Report available in 155 countries.

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DoNotPay has quickly expanded to create a leveled playing field and to reduce the barrier for people to take legal action against unjust practices. This expansion has come most recently in the form of assisting defrauded investors on the cryptocurrency lending platform, Celsius. In July of 2022, Celsius paused withdrawals of assets by users on the platform and subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. DoNot pay quickly took action and is helping individual investors in Celsius sue to get their money back in small claims court (up to $10,000). Joshua Browder said about the lawsuits that "Celsius has more significant problems than worrying about 'if a consumer sues for $5,000 in a rural Colorado town, in their local small claims court.' He added that it is important to get the smallest investors to the front line so they can be paid faster."

In 2020, after the passage of the Freedom of Information Act, DoNotPay launched a product to help anyone request information from the government. Although the Freedom of Information Act made this possible, doing so included the tedious task of filling out forms and ensuring that the requested data was not too broad. DoNotPay guides users through how to file a request for information along with doing so in an affordable and expedited manner. Joshua Browder said that with the launch of the new feature, Do NotPay hopes that they can help consumers "beat bureaucracy".

Further product offerings include the ability to automatically apply for refunds, cancel subscriptions, get hassle free free trials, fight spam in people's in boxes, combat volatile airline prices, and file damage claims with city offices.

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In 2021, DoNotPay raised $10 million by investors including Andreesen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Tribe Capital and more reaching a valuation of $210 million.

There have been some well documented critiques of DoNotPay and its legal standing. any have pointed to the company's founder, Joshua Browser, not being a lawyer as a key flaw and reason to mistrust the company's services. Others have pointed to the fact that the chatbot is not recognized as a lawyer in any code of the law.

Article Evaluation: DoNotPay
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 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * There is some information about DoNotPay that is not in the right place. Things like the founder's backstory should be in a separate section, not the introduction to the whole article itself.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article is neutral as it includes information both about the company's products and controversies with the company. There is still room to flesh out the controversies/reception section.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * The viewpoint that is critically underrepresented is the legality of the robot lawyer. Legally, they are not lawyers, they just provide legal advice however cannot actually be considered a lawyer. This is not touched upon in the article.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * All citation links work.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * The biasness of sources against DoNotPay's product offering are not mentioned. For examples, a few legal newspapers have spoken out against the company. This is a clear conflict of interest as it is in traditional lawyers best interest to avoid DoNotPay's growth.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * There is some information that is out of date regarding how much funding the company has raised.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * The founder's page was merged with the company's page one year ago

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- Convert citations to full citations to ensure verifiability of the article

- Make the article less of an advertisement

- Adding more recent information about suing Celsius, parking tickets, data privacy insurance (freedom of information act), Malaysia Govt. Test, and their founding story.

Response to Peer Review
The only peer review I received was largely positive. They had two specific grammar updates that I should make. I have updated those edits. I think after further review of my own work, there is room to add more specific information about the trials of DoNotPay in its early days. There is also very recent information as of last week about the company's profitability that has shocked many people in Silicon Valley. Adding this information may add a lot of value to the article.