Amauta.Pro — Peru's AI Assistant for Drafting Domestic-Violence Protection Orders

The Superior Court of Justice of Lima Norte, part of Peru's Poder Judicial, handles a heavy domestic-violence caseload — in 2022 its jurisdiction issued 23,000 protection measures, about 80% classified as mild or moderate risk under a severity-triage model the court built with the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI). Building on that model, judges and engineers at the court's in-house AI laboratory spent about a year developing Amauta.Pro, an AI assistant that reads a domestic-violence complaint and the documents submitted through family police stations, organises the case file, applies the applicable legal norms, and drafts a protection-order resolution.

The goal, as described by court president Lorenzo Castope Cerquín, was to automate classification and drafting for the large share of simple, lower-severity cases so judges could concentrate on severe and very-severe ones, targeting a four-hour turnaround for issuing protection measures.

Amauta.Pro was presented on 5–6 September 2024 at the II International Congress on Artificial Intelligence in the Justice System, under Judicial Power president Javier Arévalo. Drafts produced by the tool are reviewed and signed by the presiding judge before issuance — the system assists rather than replaces judicial decision-making.

According to the Poder Judicial's own figures, reported independently by Infobae and other Peruvian outlets, generating a draft resolution now takes about 40 seconds versus more than three hours previously, and the tool produced more than 1,000 resolutions in its first weeks of use. The same court's separate 'Panic Button' app for domestic-violence victims logged 545 activations across 199 devices between January and June 2024.

No independent audit of Amauta.Pro's resolution quality, error rate or bias has been published — all figures to date originate from the Judicial Power's own announcements as covered by Peruvian press, not a peer-reviewed evaluation. Court officials have described the tool as replicable to other case types, but no documented expansion beyond Lima Norte's family-violence courts had been reported as of mid-2026.