I advise law firms on technology: what to focus on, where AI fits into the practice, and the broader knowledge management picture. I map the real workflows, test what the tools actually do, and design the adoption and governance so the thing you buy gets used.
Most firms are being sold AI they have no way to evaluate. A pilot gets launched, it stalls, and six months are gone. I come in before that happens. I spent fifteen years building software, including the kind of AI systems firms are now being sold, so I can usually tell what a tool actually does from what the demo promises.
The work runs in two lanes: advising law firms directly, and helping mid-market consulting firms shape technology engagements with large enterprises, including an AmLaw 10 law firm.
I started my career in aerospace, then was a founding engineer at startups, building in regulated industries: fintech and healthcare. That includes Growth Intelligence, Kliqed, and Credit Suisse's innovation lab, working on ML pipelines, fraud detection, and classification systems.
For four years at AWS, I led a technology transformation and AI integration program, including an 18-month platform migration across four teams and more than fifteen stakeholders. Six weeks before launch I caught a network access gap that would have blocked the deployment. I caught it because I was the one reading both the frontend and backend specs.
At Semana, I took two founders from an idea to paying customers in three months. I did the design and the implementation, then hired my replacement and ran a six-week handoff. The design was still in place four years later, after Deskbird acquired the company.
If you are working out what to do with AI at your firm, get in touch.
This site has my profile and my writing. Over time I want to turn it into a knowledge base about software and AI.