Exploring Future Vision and Maniac VC Origins
my interview with @ti_morse on @relentless. we touch on @flexpa, @rossintel, the roots of @maniacvc and my vision of the future. https://t.co/OFZGvkV9U7
Execution, Not Complexity, Is the New Moat
$11B product… rebuilt in 2 weeks. Harvey is valued at $11B. Legora at $5.5B. But their core experience isn’t magic it’s execution. A developer tested this idea and rebuilt a similar app in just two weeks using Claude. Assistant, projects, tabular reviews, workflows...
SMBs Need Legal Support Multiple Times Annually, AI Helps
Do SMBs really need legal help that often? Turns out: yes. 👉 ~4 legal needs per year 👉 From tax to compliance to contracts And AI is already drafting thousands of custom agreements. Episode 248 is live 👇 https://t.co/NXvJ9ucWeW #SaaS #Startups #AI https://t.co/IyaSFBjv1g
Fair Use Essential for Scalable AI Training
going to need fair use to apply to training AI for this to become reality at scale
AI‑First GRC Turns Risk Assessments Into Immediate Action
Working on launching a new GRC platform, Cygnal. AI first, risk first. The interesting part is not the technology, it’s how quickly we can turn assessment into action. Super excited about what we are building and the value this is already...
Legal AI Takes Over Compliance Talk, Becomes Actionable
'Regulatory Compliance' is fading as noise. AI for analyzing legal documents? One of the strongest signals this week. That's not a contradiction. Companies stopped talking about compliance in the abstract. They started doing the actual legal AI work. The field moved on. https://t.co/errCvnaxmW
Banks Must Audit Geographic Clauses After Goldman Blocks Claude
Goldman Blocked Claude in Hong Kong After Contract Geography Reinterpretation Anthropic: never officially supported there. Other models remain. Despite lockout, still building agents together. Risk: banks must audit geographic clauses - DOJ/BIS enforcement threat https://t.co/5uz3V5sbt7
AI-Driven Dispute Resolution Slashes Costs and Errors
This is the type of thing we are building directly into https://t.co/WOLV3nIGgk - disputes should be done automatically by AI which collects evidence from both sides and evaluates impartially. This can dramatically lower cost of analyzing disputes and number of wrongful...
AI Slashes Audit Costs, Big Four Resist Price Cuts
We all know with certainty that AI will drastically reduce the costs of corporate auditing. This cost-reduction already widespread in legal. One problem - the big 4 are holding the line, telling clients despite AI, we are not lowering rates....
Consumers Still Prefer Lawyers Over AI for Estate Planning
Interesting debate for estate planning attorneys playing out in #AdvisorTech - to what extent will consumers trust AI-driven tools to draft most/all of their estate documents? Current state of affairs, per Trust & Will survey: - Only 30% trust AI more than...
Unified Employee Data Makes SOC 2 Compliance Effortless
Hot take: compliance feels complex because of how it gets handled. SOC 2 turns painful when teams try to recreate reality inside a compliance tool using integrations, exports, and manual checks. That’s what turns it into a second job. @Rippling takes a different...
Law Firms Employ AI to Argue Against AI
some law firms have clearly used AI to draft arguments against the use of AI
ChatGPT Now Offers Real‑time Global Compliance Data
GPT-5.5 just dropped. So did the Deel App for ChatGPT. Because a smarter model still needs accurate data. Powered by the world's largest proprietary compliance knowledge base, covering 150+ countries, maintained by hundreds of local legal experts, and updated as laws change. Whether...
Most Lawyers Already Rely on AI Tools
I’d say that most lawyers are using at least one AI tool in their practice.
Demand Grows for Comprehensive, Citable Law API
people really want the law to be available by API. historical, current, up to date. published cases, unpublished cases. citable.
AI-Driven Solo Lawyer Cuts Fees, Boosts Productivity
Lawyers: it's not AI that will get you fired by clients. It's @MikeJShowalter that will get you fired. Talking to him right now. He's a lawyer. He's a litigator, worked in major law firms his career before starting his own firm....
Dynasty Teams with Ester for AI‑Powered Estate Tax Insights
Dynasty Embeds https://t.co/33aR1yzWFH's Ester to Deliver AI Estate and Tax Intelligence to Advisors First external partner contributing dedicated agent to Dynasty's AI suite. Ester analyzes estate plans, accounts, documents, notes, emails, CRM data → generates tax + trust insights for advisors....
AI Unlocks Data to Fuel Smarter AI Cycles
Great chat with John Newton at Hyland on the essential role that #AI plays in freeing up more useful information to then use for ever better AI. Rinse and repeat. EM360Tech https://t.co/aKGrMTj1qf
LLM Outperforms Expectations Finding AML/KYC Guidelines
An anecdote for you from LLM land: I sent Opus 4.7 out to do a literature survey of various government law enforcement internal guidelines w/r/t AML and KYC usage in prosecutions. It was much more successful at finding these docs...
AI Boosts Self‑Representation, Yet Courts Face Overload
AI is augmenting the ability of people to represent themselves in court. That's great from the perspective of access to justice. It also poses challenges for the courts. Speaking to judges in one court system recently, it was clear that...
Paywalls Threaten Legal Transparency; Open Access Essential
if the content is all behind paywalls this will be a continuous problem. it’s ripping apart legal filings right now and highlighting the absolute need to have open digital access to primary law
Denial of AI Risks Lawsuits for Professionals
Now we frequently see lawyers cited for using hallucinated citations in filings. Meanwhile malpractice suits are surely brewing that will ding professionals for not using AI tools to prevent their mistakes. Professionals in denial about AI tools will regret...
Laniakea Standardizes Governance, Boosting Security for Sky and Partners
Laniakea is a project in Sky to bring all structures of governance and collateral exposure into standardized formats, with strict standardization and best practice optimization across 4 critical dimensions: Smart contracts, risk management, data infrastructure and legal recourse. With Laniakea...
AI Reshapes Legal Tech: 2026 Trends to Watch
Legal #Tech In 2026: #AI's Impact And Other Trends To Look Out For by Dan Hauck @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/BtB3aFa6ac #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/LubYlh6vXL
Lawyers Want Product, VCs Want Pivot—Different Priorities
Me as Lawyer & LegalTech Founder talking to.. VCs: “Yeah, okay, but I don’t understand your wedge, you should do X differnt, but have you thought about Y?” Other Attorneys: *cuts me off* ..”yep, I get it. How do I sign...
Upload Updated Contract, AI Amends It Instantly
Renegotiated a contract? In JustPaid, upload the updated version to amend it in seconds AI handles the rest. https://t.co/Fl423xNbMo
E‑commerce Brands Face Aggressive Multi‑state Tax Enforcement
Five years ago, you could sell in 30 states, and nobody came looking. That era is over. States have figured out that ecommerce brands are sitting on millions in uncollected sales tax, and they finally have the tools to go collect...
Anthropic Aims Claude at $1 Trillion Legal Market
Anthropic Targets Lawyers With Claude For Word “it’s surely not lost on Anthropic that legal is a global $1 Trillion industry, with about half of that in the US alone.” https://t.co/G5bAlKdUU2 https://t.co/58SA2Dcm4M
Claude AI Integrates Into Word, First Major Use: Contract Review
🔺 Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases https://t.co/GctEPgSwER https://t.co/lhdW45z7l1
AI's Biggest Legacy: Ending the Billable Hour Forever
When the history books are written*, the death of the billable hour might very well be AI's greatest contribution to humanity *Written by AI, obvs https://t.co/s3t8cvnoht
AI Hallucinations Threaten Courts; Humans Must Own the Risk
Prosecutors are citing AI-generated case law that doesn't exist. Meanwhile 60% of federal judges say they're using AI tools. Nobody is checking the robots and the robots are making things up. This is not a tech problem. This is a "who owns the...
AI Targets Highest-Cost Jobs First, Not All Workers
AI won’t replace everyone. It will replace what’s most expensive first. Legal teams, documentation-heavy roles, and non-complex work are already in the line of fire. #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #JobAutomation #AIRevolution #TechDisruption https://t.co/kdlcj7tSIk
AI Legal Chats: Should They Get Attorney‑client Privilege?
Should legal chats with an AI be protected by attorney-client privilege or something like it? I have some bias towards yes. But also good to see this person trying to commit fraud with ChatGPT's help lose.
Ross Intelligence Secures Strong Fair Use Precedent Pre‑Argument
“ROSS Intelligence could not have asked for a better fair use precedent handed down before its oral argument.” 👀
AI‑crafted Briefs Look Flawless; Handmade Ones Signal Authenticity
Using AI to make extremely polished brief with no typos and AI assisted legal argument citing cases you didn’t read. -weak -cowering -privileged -ineffectual -soft-penised Filing unpolished brief with argument you though of yourself and case law I actually read, with a typo in...
Hinton’s 2015 Forecast Proven Absolutely True
so…get this…this forecast from professor hinton in 2015 turned out to be absolutely, unequivocally true. https://t.co/tJnhLVqQPh
AI Enables Affordable, High‑Quality Legal Services for Everyone
the world needs more lawyers, not less. the key is that the lawyers must be affordable AND high quality. AI helps make this a reality. imagine everyone being able to have the same legal services of a large corporation. the...
Lack of Comprehensive Legal API Raises Serious Concerns
that the full breadth and depth of citable, current law is not available by API is profoundly concerning
AI to Rank Judges by Sentencing Impact
Feel like I want to build an AI agent to scrape every Judge’s sentencing history, then cross reference that with court records and arrest records to calculate recidivism rates, then rank the recipients crimes by level of severity/violence, then rank...
AI Set to Overhaul Legal Practice Within Three Years
“Holy shit this is going to change the business and practice of law as we have known it for decades in less than 3 years.” 👀 https://t.co/Qe988vxjSs
AI Judges Could Bridge Small Claims‑Arbitration Gap
Problem: The large gap in commercial dispute resolution between small claims court (capped at like $10k damages in CA) and arbitration (where you're going to spend $20k+ on legal, which you may or may not get back). Proposed solution: A neutral AI...
Background Agents Will Power Nonstop Workflow Automation
Right now the main paradigm that we think of agents in is chatting back and forth, but the biggest use of tokens will come from agents that are just always on running in the background doing work for us, or...
AI Revolutionizes Legal Practice: Key Findings Unveiled
1/ Very interesting paper about the use of #AI in the #legal sector, by @Dschwarcz et al.👇
Audit First, Build Later: Counterintuitive Path to 8‑Figure ARR
Would you pay auditors to audit you 10 times before building your product? This founder did. His startup hit 8-figure ARR. @grease_ is the co-founder of @sprintoHQ, a compliance automation platform that's now at 8-figure ARR with 3,000+ customers....
Seeking User Priorities for New AI‑Native GRC Platform
What is the most important thing you want in a GRC platform? We are building something new, AI-native from the ground up. Would value input from people actually using these systems day to day.
AI Now Drafts Policies Reliably with Peer Review
And instead of having to hand-craft these policies, we now have magical thinking machines that can do it for us, reliably, and with peer review.
Audit AI Outputs Now to Avoid $145K Fines
$145K in AI citation fines. Q1 2026. Already billed. Courts are not warning anymore. 4 things to audit: Map AI output exposure Test compliance flexibility Check association risk Reframe automation language Who verifies before it goes out? https://t.co/jiDxZhf68S
AI Can’t Capture Legal Nuance Behind Simple Decisions
Even “simple” legal decisions are more complex than they appear. Using AI in court risks overlooking context, nuance and fairness, especially in cases where human judgment and interpretation matter most. What seems routine can still carry significant consequences. In law, consistency is...
Titan's Banking AI Makes Compliance Auditable, Not Optional
Domain-Led AI for Banks: Titan's SLMs Aim to Make Compliance Auditable, Not Optional Titan launched banking-native small language models (SLMs) embedding banking logic + regulatory frameworks. Proprietary Banker Trust Index (BTI) + RAGAS benchmarks claim higher safety, reliability, supervisory alignment vs...
Law Firms May Turn Into Fully Automated Dark Factories
In less than three years parts of your law firm could become Dark Factories. Places where the work is so automated, that there are no people there to need the lights turned on in the room. https://t.co/d4nG54H0e5 https://t.co/I8Oe8dCJya