AI is being marketed to law firms as either transformative or dangerous. Depending on the headline, it will replace associates or expose firms to malpractice risk. I find both narratives unhelpful.
If I were designing an AI assistant for a small, local law firm, perhaps a 3–10 attorney practice handling personal injury or family law, I wouldn…
Category: AI Lab
Can AI Reduce Administrative Overhead by 40%? Modeling the Math for a Solo Founder
1. The Baseline: Where the Time Actually Goes
AI’s promise is leverage. For large companies, that often means reducing headcount or headcount growth. For a solo founder, it means something much simpler and more urgent: reclaiming time.
This question is not abstract for me. As I build Seattle App Studio, developing a portfolio of small bus…
Before You Automate Anything: How I Evaluate an AI Workflow for a Small Business
Artificial intelligence tools are improving quickly. Every week, a new platform promises to automate customer service, replace administrative work, or “10x productivity.”
For a small business owner, that creates pressure. You start to wonder: Are we falling behind? Should we be using this?
But in my experience, the right question isn’t…
Why Measuring AI’s Ability to Complete Long Tasks Matters — and What It Means for Businesses
When most people think about AI progress, they think about big, flashy moments: an AI winning a chess match, generating a song, or answering a complicated trivia question in seconds. But if you run a business, you know real success doesn’t come from a single clever move. It comes from sticking with a project — handling complexity over days, ev…
Claude’s Moral Code: What Anthropic’s New AI Study Means for Business Values
Artificial intelligence isn’t just about speed and efficiency anymore — it’s starting to express values. And that shift matters, especially for small businesses trying to lead with authenticity in an increasingly digital world.
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, just dropped a fascinating study analyzing over 700,000 real-world conv…