Sara Rayment
Founder and Managing Partner, Inkling Legal Design. FT Innovative Lawyers award-winning legal designer, profiled by the Financial Times among Asia-Pacific's most innovative legal practitioners, and AI-readiness expert.
Sara Rayment founded Inkling Legal Design in 2018 after more than a decade practising in top-tier firms, on a conviction that legal information should work for the people who rely on it. All of them. Trained at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) and an adjunct academic at the University of Newcastle, where she helped establish Australia's first dedicated law-school course in legal design thinking, Sara built Inkling around a discipline most of the industry skipped: testing. Her primary research on cognitive diversity, examining how neurodiverse and cognitively varied readers actually process legal information, underpins every Inkling redesign and the global user-testing portfolio the firm benchmarks against.
The Financial Times profiled Sara among Asia-Pacific's most innovative legal practitioners in 2021, before the AI wave, for showing that legal design helps organisations understand their business and their customers' experience better. That evidence base became the foundation of Inkling's AI work. Under Sara's leadership, Inkling won the FT Innovative Lawyers award for Legal Design in 2021 and again in 2024 for AI New Solutions, took Gold at the Australian Good Design Awards for its AI solutions and legal design contracts, and has been recognised in the FT's Innovative Lawyers report every year from 2021 to 2026, most recently for an AI-powered predictive drafting tool built on the firm's user-testing data. The FT has also quoted her definition of the field's missing discipline: “the meat is verifying the prototype.”
Sara has worked at the international policy level of the same problem: she sits on the International Chamber of Commerce's AI taskforce and served in 2025 as a delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group I on data and AI in decision-making, contributing to the global frameworks for how organisations rely on AI-assisted decisions. Her current focus is the field's next frontier: making legal and governance knowledge work through an AI intermediary, where machine bias meets human bias, without losing human understanding. Your knowledge now has two readers; Sara's work is making sure both of them get it right.
Speaking and media
Sara speaks internationally on legal design, AI readiness, cognitive diversity and human oversight of AI. For interviews, conference and podcast enquiries: info@inkling.how.
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