Tark.AI: An AI-Guided Reasoning Platform for Legal Education: A Large Learning Model

Tark.AI

Krisha Mankarmi, Heysha Zaveri, Amogh Atwe, O.P. Jindal Global University

Training / education / pedagogy

Tark.AI is a multilingual, reasoning-first AI platform for legal and higher education designed to move from large language models to large learning models. It addresses a growing failure in AI-assisted learning: students are increasingly producing answers without developing the reasoning those answers require. Instead of offering one-click outputs, Tark.AI uses a Socratic logic-tree interface and productive pedagogical friction to guide learners through issue identification, fact classification, justification, and conclusion-building step by step. Its use case is especially strong in the Indian context, where generative AI not only bypasses critical thinking but also reproduces language inequality and leaves institutions with little visibility into what students are actually learning. Tark.AI gives students a way to think with AI rather than be replaced by it, and gives institutions a more accountable model for integrating AI into education.

Tark.AI matters because it addresses a core gap in AI-assisted education: institutions can measure submissions, plagiarism, and satisfaction, but they still cannot tell whether students are actually building independent reasoning or simply outsourcing it to AI. This is important for budding lawyers who must learn how to think and apply the law rather than summarising and arranging case briefs. In the Indian context, that gap is even more urgent. The National Education Policy 2020 calls for higher-order cognitive skills, critical thinking, assessment reform, multilingual inclusion, and equitable access, yet most generative AI tools do the opposite as they funnel the reasoning process into instant outputs, privilege English-dominant and Western cognitive frames, ignore different learning pathways, and make it harder for educators to observe real analytical growth. Tark.AI responds not only with a Socratic, multilingual learning model, but with TRIM - the Tark Reasoning and Intervention Manual, a diagnostic framework that classifies where reasoning is breaking down in AI-assisted learning and enables targeted intervention. This makes Tark.AI not just a study tool, but a pedagogically aligned, cognitively protective, and institutionally accountable framework for preserving learning integrity.

Our team is motivated by a growing contradiction at the heart of education today: while generative AI has become fast, accessible, and deeply embedded in how students learn, there is still no meaningful framework for understanding whether it is strengthening reasoning or quietly replacing it. Through Tark.AI, we want to explore the transition from large language models to large learning models, from systems that simply generate fluent answers to systems that actively cultivate critical thinking, judgment, and independent analysis. We are especially interested in building this in a way that is aligned with NEP 2020, grounded in learning science, and responsive to India’s need for multilingual, equitable access. Our objective is to test whether a combination of Socratic logic trees, productive friction, structured reasoning, and adaptive intervention through TRIM can make AI pedagogically accountable rather than cognitively substitutive. We already have a functioning prototype, a live Hindi translation layer, and a built Socratic interface. In doing so, we hope to create not just a tool for legal education, but a broader framework for how AI can support deeper learning without displacing the learner across law schools in the world.