AI & Software Projects
Builder of AI tools for real-world legal practice.
80,000+ lines of production code · 1,500+ commits · 7 systems in production or active development · First commit: 2023
Stack:
Python · JavaScript · Direct LLM API integration (Claude, Gemini, GPT) · Custom prompt orchestration · Full deployment pipelines
Python · JavaScript · Direct LLM API integration (Claude, Gemini, GPT) · Custom prompt orchestration · Full deployment pipelines
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Translation Pipeline:
Fully automated translation system for long-form legal and regulatory documents across English-hub ASEAN language pairs — Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Malay. Handles PDF and web ingestion, structure-aware preprocessing, review-aware correction, and export to business-ready formats. Built for documents where precision matters more than fluency: statutes, regulations, and technical guidance.
Legal Knowledge Base:
Ingestion and chunking pipeline for primary legal regulations, secondary resources, templates, and practice notes — designed as the foundation for a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system. Handles structured storage and document processing for downstream knowledge retrieval.
OpenClaw Harness:
LLM-to-OS bridge connecting LLM reasoning to a local execution runtime — filesystem operations, shell commands, application control, and network requests. Multi-model routing: lightweight models for routine operations, capable models for complex reasoning. Includes an operational dashboard for managing mini-apps, scheduled jobs, and system analytics.
Automated Research Pipelines:
A set of autonomous pipelines running on cron schedules via OpenClaw. Each pipeline spawns an isolated agent session, performs targeted web research, produces LLM-generated summaries, and distributes results to Discord channels and dashboards. Currently runs daily news briefings and an AI legal tech tracker.
Fee Proposal Generator:
Generates structured fee proposals from intake parameters — scope, personnel, billing and deposit requirements. Reduces a 2–3 hour manual drafting process to minutes while maintaining firm-specific formatting and compliance with engagement standards.
Docx Styler:
AI-driven paragraph styling for legal Word documents. Applies consistent formatting using AI classification across documents that pass through multiple authors — associates, partners, clients, and opposing counsel — before final production.
SHA-SG:
Singapore venture capital template agreements (shareholders’ agreement, subscription agreement, constitution) placed under structured version control. Tracks clause-level changes across template revisions and enables diffing between versions.
Prior Legal Projects
Venture Capital and Company Financings:
Company counsel for a Series A (raising USD $3.5M) and a Series B (raising USD $10M) for a biotech company
Company counsel for USD $20M of private placements for a manufacturing and materials-science company
Counsel for a Silicon Valley angel investor who has made numerous startup investments
Corporate Compliance:
Served as a securities and corporate compliance counsel for several NASDAQ-traded companies
Blockchain/DLT Projects:
Company counsel for a biomedical blockchain project
Company counsel for a Token Generation Event (ICO) involving over USD $22M of digital tokens
Other Projects:
Counsel for a software development firm, a digital marketing firm, and for numerous real estate investment projects
Articles Written
You can find a list of my recent articles here (requires you to be logged into LinkedIn).
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“Ripple Labs Decision: 3 Big Takeaways”
This article discusses a U.S. federal court decision that was impactful for the crypto sector.
“Contagion, Crypto and Venture Capital”
This was an article about a string of U.S. bank failures that occurred in Q1 2023. It discusses how depositors are insured by the FDIC, and how the bank failures should affect venture capital.
“Publishing A.I. Art: What Could Go Wrong?”
This article discusses the risk of using AI art for your website, posters, marketing materials—publishing it in general. It discusses the state of copyright for AI art, and touches upon how AI models are trained.
“No Copyright on A.I. Art (But How to Argue for It)”
This article discusses how copyright law and AI art intersect. Although an AI model cannot be considered an author of copyrighted material, the article discusses how there’s at least a reasonable argument for that a prompt writer should be considered an author eligible for copyright protection.
“FinCEN: 4 Ways it’s Changing and Expanding”
This article discusses FinCEN, a United States agency that acts like the “world financial police.” An action in Q1 2023 showed that the agency was expanding its policing powers.
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