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Andrew Mayes

ai engineer · legal-tech leader

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I lead technology at Executive Reporting Service, a 45-year-old court reporting firm, and founded DepoStack to build independent legal software for the people who produce the record. Proudly supervised by Sushi the tuxedo, the memory of Obiwan, and the CJ Paws rescue mission.

Andrew Mayes holding Sushi, his tuxedo cat, against warm golden light
sushi.exe & me
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building

$ ls ~/building

The day job and the independent work

I lead technology at a 45-year-old court reporting firm and build DepoStack, an independent software company for the people who produce the record. These are the roles and projects featured here.

01 · Current role

Technology leadership inside the institution that produces the record.

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THE DAY JOB · EST. 1981

Executive Reporting Service

Leading technology across a Florida court reporting firm founded in 1981 — transcript security, digital delivery, client platforms, statewide infrastructure. Founded by Diane Emery; Alexandra Emery has driven its growth since 2007. The work: modernize those systems without discarding 45 years of institutional knowledge.

record / encrypted custody path / secure delivery
status running since 2020
reviewed
role Director of Technology
since October 2020
focus technology, innovation & digital delivery
reach statewide, multi-office
→ read the inside view → executivereporting.com

02 · Founded company

The independent home for the software I build beyond the day job.

depostack.com
THE COMPANY · BUILDING IN PUBLIC

DepoStack

The company behind the night work — independent software for the legal industry. DepoAudio is available and open source. CasePrompts has free prompt tools and a planned Workbench. Exhibits, Review, and Video are developing separately.

independent modules / one local-first stack
status product waitlist open
reviewed
what independent legal-tech software
principles vendor-neutral · status-visible · pro-first
featured DepoAudio · CasePrompts
developing Exhibits · Review · Video
→ read the case study → building in public→ the inside view → depostack.com

03 · Products under DepoStack

One shipped utility and one public-preview prompt library, held to the same standard.

depoaudio.exe
THE SHIPPED ONE · FREE & OPEN SOURCE

DepoAudio

Court recordings shouldn't be held hostage by proprietary formats. A desktop app that converts supported SGMCA, BWF, and standard media to standard audio entirely on your machine; FTR/TRM handling remains experimental because variants differ.

supported inputs / on-device conversion / open audio
status v1.0.2 · win + mac
reviewed
converts supported SGMCA · BWF · standard media
experimental FTR/TRM — verify each result
stack Tauri, Rust, React, FFmpeg
runs on Windows 10/11 x64 · macOS 13.3+ universal
price free — no account or subscription
→ read the case study → open court-audio formats→ why it is open source → depoaudio.com→ release & install requirements→ source
caseprompts.com
THE PROMPT TOOLS · FREE TO USE

CasePrompts

A free browser prompt builder and library for litigation, built on the CITE method. Templates require source references suited to the record and instruct the model to flag unsupported claims; outputs still need professional review. A separate Workbench is planned.

scan the record / land on page:line
status free tools live · Workbench planned
reviewed
method CITE — Context · Instructions · Template · Evidence
covers depositions, medical records, discovery, experts
discipline source references · flag unsupported claims
public tools free builder & library — no signup
→ read the case study → page:line discipline→ the CITE method → build a free prompt→ planned Workbench
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the log

$ tail -3 ~/blog

Recent writing

Applied AI, legal tech, and independent software — written between deploys, usually under cat supervision.

Read The Log →
03
off the clock

$ cat ~/off-the-clock.md

Life, supervised by cats

When I’m not building software, I’m building LEGO sets Sushi will inevitably dismantle, riding front-row on the latest coasters, or tracking flights from a window seat.

~/lego.md

LEGO Builder

Disney Castle centerpiece, Hulkbuster, Architecture series — the cats helped sort. Currently eyeing the UCS Millennium Falcon while Sushi supervises from the display shelf.

→ read the story
~/coasters.md

Coaster Enthusiast

Front row, hands up, every time — and a proud Disney adult. More Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, and Universal Orlando weekends than I'll admit; Iron Gwazi and Busch Gardens when the Tampa drive's shorter. If it inverts, or it's opening day, I'm in line.

→ read the story
~/flights.md

Aviation Nerd

Born in Key West, grew up in St. Pete, and somehow I still haven't caught a launch in person. FlightRadar24 regular. Window seat, no exceptions. Travel wishlist: Japan, Iceland, Portugal.

→ read the story

$ open ~/photos --selected → all photos

Sushi, a black-and-white tuxedo cat, curled in a wicker egg chair in warm evening light
Sushi, in the good chair.2026-08
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White Waymo test vehicle parked at a charging space beside delivery vans and palm trees
A Waymo field sighting.2026-06
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Pastel watercolor-style view of the Universal globe under a blue sky
Universal, through a softer lens.2026-06
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Red and yellow Cars Land roadsters among cacti and desert rockwork at dusk
Life’s a highway. 🏜️🏁2026-06
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🐾 Save cats with CJ Paws

A volunteer-run 501(c)(3) rescue in St. Pete — no paid staff, no storefront, just foster families and people who care. They pull cats from overcrowded shelters and place them into forever homes.

fig 06 — foster → forever
🧡 donate 🐾 adopt 🔍 find your match
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the parks

$ open ~/parks/field-guide

The park field guide

Pixel maps, field notes, and live queue context for rides, shows, walkthroughs, play areas, exhibits, parades, live music, and nighttime spectaculars — rosters checked , status updates through , and live waits where queueable.

landmark · Magic Kingdom One map, then the whole atlas. 18 parks · 696 mapped experiences · live waits where queueable open the field guide →
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field guides

$ ls ~/guides

Visual field guides

Diagrams, checklists, and decision paths for systems that make more sense when you can see them. Each guide has a canonical HTML page, a text explanation, and a clean print view.

AI Reliability Checklist for Law Firms visual motif AM/
Checklist Applied AI

AI Reliability Checklist for Law Firms

Eight practical checks for data control, model portability, record citations, human review, tested fallbacks, and continuity.

updated Sep 4, 2026 open guide →
Court-Audio File Format Decoder visual motif AM/
Decision tree Court reporting

Court-Audio File Format Decoder

Identify SGMCA, FTR/TRM, BWF, and standard audio packages, preserve the source, convert a working copy locally, and verify the result.

updated Sep 4, 2026 open guide →
Court-Audio Preservation Chain visual motif 1 2 3 4 5 AM/
Workflow Court reporting

Court-Audio Preservation Chain

A five-stage visual workflow for documenting intake, preserving the complete source, working from a verified copy, checking results, and recording handoff and retention.

updated Sep 4, 2026 open guide →
→ explore all visual guides
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the lab

$ ps aux | grep side-project

Experiments with somewhere to live

Prototypes, open-source utilities, and side projects that may become something larger. Live work stays useful; concepts stay honest about where they are.

Park Field Guide project motif LIVE / AM
Maps + live context Live

Status reviewed

Park Field Guide

Pixel maps, field notes, and live queue context for major theme parks.

Open the field guide →
Purrfect Match project motif LIVE / AM
Community + open source Live

Status reviewed

Purrfect Match

A free WordPress plugin that turns a rescue's public Petfinder listings into its own filterable, branded adoption page.

See the build → View source →
Visual Guide Engine project motif PROTOTYPE / AM
Publishing system Prototype

Status reviewed

Visual Guide Engine

The reusable content and rendering system behind the visual guides.

Explore the guides →
→ enter the lab
07
toolkit

$ man andrew

The daily stack

The tools, grouped the way I actually reach for them.

man andrew — section 1

BUILD

  • TypeScript / React
  • Next.js / Astro
  • Python
  • Node.js · Tailwind
  • PostgreSQL · Docker

AI

  • Claude / Claude Code
  • Multi-agent systems
  • RAG pipelines
  • Local LLMs
  • Prompt engineering

SHIP

  • Cloudflare · AWS
  • Supabase
  • Git / GitHub
  • UniFi · VPN
  • O365 admin

LEGAL

  • AutoScript
  • Real-time transcription
  • E-transcript delivery
  • Exhibit delivery
  • Zoom depositions
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contact

$ ./contact.sh

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