CEO @MinuteBox | AI for corporate and transactional legal teams #legaltech
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This is going to look real silly when the GPU guys start buying lawyers
We’re not aware of any law firm going to this extreme.
For example Latham is buying GPUs but is also firm-wide on Harvey and we announced a deeper partnership today.
We think that’s the right strategy and what matters more than build vs buy is how heavily a firm is investing in AI.
The best way to invest is a portfolio approach of working closely with vertical vendors and the labs and cloud providers while also self-building with open source and the frontier ecosystem.
Everything is moving too fast and law firms are too complex for a single binary approach like this post suggests.
Law firms will not rely on a single vendor nor will they build the entire stack themselves.
My view is that longer term the labs and clouds will build general intelligence infrastructure and vertical players will help customize it for each industry.
Then individual firms will leverage their unique data, human expertise and workflows to build differentiated AI to better compete against their peers and serve their clients.
Our goal is to build the trusted vertical layer and open it up through APIs so firms can build everything from custom models and context layers to agents and products with us.
And most importantly do it in a way they can trust that their data and their clients’ data is safe and only used for their benefit.
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#BREAKING: Olivia Chow has been re-elected as mayor of Toronto, the CP24-CTV Election Desk is projecting.
cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/…
And here’s our other 50 announcements. 🇺🇸
Today at @goclio ClioCon we expanded one of our most-loved features to the US.
More below 👇
New in MinuteBox this week: Automated Compliance expands to the United States. MinuteBox 2026.28 automatically tracks deadlines for corporations and LLCs in every US state and territory, and trusts, nonprofits and partnerships for the first time for US entities.
minutebox.com/blog/automated…
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New in MinuteBox this week: Automated Compliance expands to the United States. MinuteBox 2026.28 automatically tracks deadlines for corporations and LLCs in every US state and territory, and trusts, nonprofits and partnerships for the first time for US entities.
minutebox.com/blog/automated…
Daniel Levine retweeted
Today at ClioCon we are announcing our official integration with Clio Manage. Send registry searches, corporate documents, share registers and registry invoices from MinuteBox to the right Clio matter.
minutebox.com/blog/minutebox…
#ClioCon2026
Our first of 51 big announcements today.
Proud of the team on this one. We’re at ClioCon this week, drop by and say hello!
Today at ClioCon we are announcing our official integration with Clio Manage. Send registry searches, corporate documents, share registers and registry invoices from MinuteBox to the right Clio matter.
minutebox.com/blog/minutebox…
#ClioCon2026
Saving? They’re piloting Harvey, Legora and Spellbook in parallel plus on a $1,000,000 monthly token run rate with Claude.
Rates are going up and law firms are evaluating how to disburse token costs to matters.
If you’re a law firm trialling different Registry Services products for due diligence searches let me know. I’ll personally buy a search product on a competitive platform for you and then you can try ours.
Also, take your time to decide, it’s no rush. We’ll be here for you when you’re ready.
I’m going to offer a discount to anyone trialing MinuteBox if they also trial a competitor.
We want fully informed customers.
Also, we tend to close faster once someone has spent time with our more transactional competitors.
Cancelling my iPhone Duo pre-order today after reading some of the tech reviews and learning that the screen is half the size when folded.
Interestingly, new Apple CEO @johnternus was leading iPad hardware engineering at the time.
It's been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I've gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I'd want to buy and carry.
daringfireball.net/2026/10/t…
Very common experience across many domains but particularly painful in law due to the billable hour making it hurt twice. Once when you get the conflicting advice and again when you get billed for both.
I had a lawyer say he was traveling and his associate would meet with me.
The associate met with me and very confidently gave me advice for half an hour.
Later, I got an email from the partner and the associate giving me complete opposite advice.
I got billed for the associate call, the associate partner call, and the email exchange where I asked them “WTF is going on? Which advice is true?”
The greatest minds in AI are busy debating the ethics of this scene from Office Space.
gifdb.com/images/branded/hig…
There has always been great open source software.
People actually prefer using opinionated and well-crafted software.
That’s why “shareware” always won with end-users.
The euphemism here is calling this “de facto open source,” which is another way of saying all software will be quickly copied and ripped off by swarms of agents like we saw this week with Adobe.
The difference is that the swarms of agents and those using them don’t have the craft or opinions that make the software they are copying great in the first place and so they will always be following and not leading.
The leaders with great craft will still win.
AI maximalism is rooted in the unprecedented rate of improvement, not the current state.*
*though I disagree about the current state. Astounds me every day.
the thing i don't get about the AI maximalist story is I continually find that LLMs are just not very creative at all in any domain
every time I give Astra some task to hill climb over night, I come back the next morning and it is basically stuck in a local minimum
then i'm like "try this obvious thing" and it improves by 50% in 15 minutes
Who is working on this for the legal vertical?
Your next meeting comes with a note-taker who can help with the follow-up.
The Meetings plugin takes notes for you and saves a personalized summary and next steps in ChatGPT Space, based on what ChatGPT knows about you and the work you’ve done together.
Keep notes private or share them with your team, then ask ChatGPT to update a project plan or draft a follow-up.
Available in beta for Pro and Business users in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS. Enterprise is coming soon.
Download the desktop app, then search for “Meetings” in the plugin directory.
chatgpt.com/download/
