The name sounds like illicit.
transitive verb
1: to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) her remarks elicited cheers
2: to draw forth or bring out (something latent or potential) hypnotism elicited his hidden fears
We do use LLMs, but the secret sauce is an approach we call Factored Cognition which we wrote about here: https://ought.org/research/factored-cognition
(Elicit the company and app was spun out from Ought the research lab).
We do joke internally about the homophone (in fact, IIRC we did a little joke on our CEO by rebranding for his birthday in 2022) but I'm sorry to report that we're all careful, ethical, and well-behaved people :(