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Anthropic released open-source legal plugins for its AI desktop tool. Markets panicked, wiping $300 billion in value from software stocks. The plugin itself is early. But the signal is clear: foundation model companies are coming for your vendors’ lunch. If your firm still bills by the hour for work AI can do in minutes, the revenue model question matters more than the tool question.
February 23, 2026
February 23, 2026
Anthropic released open-source legal plugins for its AI desktop tool. Markets panicked, wiping $300 billion in value from software stocks. The plugin itself is early. But the signal is clear: foundation model companies are coming for your vendors’ lunch. If your firm still bills by the hour for work AI can do in minutes, the revenue model question matters more than the tool question.
Anthropic released open-source legal plugins for its AI desktop tool. Markets panicked, wiping $300 billion in value from software stocks. The plugin itself is early. But the signal is clear: foundation model companies are coming for your vendors’ lunch. If your firm still bills by the hour for work AI can do in minutes, the revenue model question matters more than the tool question.
February 19, 2026
After hitting the limits of what even state-of-the-art AI can do with 20,000+ documents, we built a hierarchical summarization pipeline that breaks the problem into manageable pieces. Three passes. Progressive compression. The result: comprehensive analysis that would have taken a legal team months, delivered in days.
After hitting the limits of what even state-of-the-art AI can do with 20,000+ documents, we built a hierarchical summarization pipeline that breaks the problem into manageable pieces. Three passes. Progressive compression. The result: comprehensive analysis that would have taken a legal team months, delivered in days.
February 16, 2026
I helped a law firm inherit a massive, seven-year-old case with 20,000+ documents and hundreds of motions. We built an AI-powered system on Google Cloud Platform to make sense of it all. The setup worked. Getting the deep analysis we actually needed? That’s where things got interesting. This is Part 1 of what we learned.
I helped a law firm inherit a massive, seven-year-old case with 20,000+ documents and hundreds of motions. We built an AI-powered system on Google Cloud Platform to make sense of it all. The setup worked. Getting the deep analysis we actually needed? That’s where things got interesting. This is Part 1 of what we learned.