Fractional legal for B2B SaaS and AI companies. Lives in your Slack. Contracts, employment, IP, pre-litigation — all covered.
Previously product & privacy at Dropbox.
Now → Advising a major AI lab and a high-growth SaaS startup.
Earlier → Kirkland & Ellis, Ninth Circuit clerkship, Williams & Connolly. Software developer at IBM before law. Substack → LinkedIn →
Founded Playbird (Word add-in for AI contract negotiation) and PreVend.ai before this practice. Both shipped, neither scaled — and that's the point. My current stack is built on what I learned. Open-source tools →
AI runs on every contract and deal — first-pass review, clause extraction, redline generation. My judgment goes on top, and client-confidential data stays out of tools that lack appropriate security and data-use protections. That's why vendor reviews are $500 instead of $2,000.
I've been the first lawyer at four companies and a founder twice. I make pragmatic decisions about risk because I've sat in the seat where legal costs money and slows things down. I write about this →