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The Log
Notes on AI engineering, legal tech, pixel art, and whatever the cats allow. Written between deploys, coasters, and LEGO sorting sessions.
Why I Open-Sourced DepoAudio (and What Free Tools Do for Court Reporting)
I gave DepoAudio away. Free, open source, no account, no upsell. People in legal tech ask why — usually with the slight suspicion that there's a catch. There isn't. There's a reason, and it's worth saying out loud. DepoAudio does one unglamorous thing: it gets court recordings out of proprietary formats and into standard audio, on your machine. That's not a product so much as a fix for a problem that shouldn't exist — a problem created entirely by vendors…
An AI Reliability Checklist for Law Firms (One Page — Print It)
A printable checklist for legal AI reliability — model portability, data control, human-in-the-loop, and fallbacks. The one-pager an office manager can actually pin up.
Building DepoStack in Public: What Court Reporting Software Should Be
A build-log on the principles behind DepoStack — vendor-neutral, on-device, professional-first. What's broken in legacy court reporting software, and what I'm doing differently.
Digital Court Reporting in 2026: The Workflow Nobody Explains
There's a lot of fog around how digital court reporting actually works end to end. A clear, non-defensive walkthrough from capture to certified transcript — and where AI fits.
Page:Line or It Didn't Happen: Making AI Cite the Record
The biggest failure in legal AI is confident, uncited fabrication. Here's how to force a model to ground every claim in page:line — and admit when it can't.
Why Legal AI Should Run on Your Machine, Not Someone Else's Cloud
Sensitive testimony shouldn't be uploaded to a vendor just to be useful. The case for on-device legal AI — privacy, continuity, and cost — and where the line actually is.
The frontier comes back online
Eighteen days after the government ordered Fable 5 suspended, it's back. What the outage looked like from the seat of someone who builds on these tools — and what it taught me about wiring a stack to a single model.
The Paralegal's Guide to AI Deposition Summaries (What's Safe, What Isn't)
AI can draft a deposition summary in seconds — and fail in specific, avoidable ways. A field guide to using it without getting burned, and keeping every cite honest.
Love loudly — then make it legal
A Pride shout-out to my friends at Life Plan Law here in St. Pete, and why the paperwork — wills, directives, powers of attorney — is one of the most underrated forms of love there is.
What Happens to Legal AI Tools When the Government Pulls the Plug?
Legal teams now run on AI for depo summaries and transcript review. What's your contingency when a frontier model gets recalled? A calm reliability checklist.
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The trophy case
Little wins — built, ridden, shipped, and otherwise unlocked — shelved by the things I do off the clock.