What the work measures.
Notes on AI adoption, data privacy, local deployment and AI governance, mostly in legal work. We publish the sources and the tradeoffs, including findings that complicate our own thesis.
Why local AI, why now
We read how teams handling confidential records actually talk about AI adoption online, not survey answers. One theme shows up before any other, unprompted, across dozens of independent sources: control.
Read the note →What manual document review costs legal teams
Paperwork is usually treated like a minor tax on the day. When you measure it in legal services, the number is bigger than expected, and it is not only about time.
Read the note →More notes as the research continues: a quarterly Seattle small-firm AI snapshot from aggregated, de-identified Policy Check findings, and one-page vendor reports from the library we keep for audits.
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