Some of the most interesting problems in legal technology sit where contracts and data intersect with the business reality. I've been the person trying to connect what the lawyers are saying, what the technologists are building, and what the business actually needs to know.
To work through those ideas more freely and more frequently, I've launched a new Substack called Jack of Domains. The name is a nod to writing from the overlap of law, technology, and business rather than from any one domain.
I'll be applying a cross-domain perspective to several themes that in my view don't get enough thoughtful discussion:
Why contracts may actually be the most structured data in business, despite often being labeled “unstructured”
The gap between what legal tech promises and what it delivers
How generative AI is reshaping the legal tech landscape, and the risks that come with it
Why contract data may be the “golden source” of information about how organizations actually operate
What makes contract intelligence and data extraction projects succeed and why many struggle to deliver value
I'll also share the occasional war story, poker bad beat, and Dad joke for anyone who likes their legal tech less dry.
Company updates and product-focused pieces will still live here on the Catylex blog. For readers who care about contracts and legal tech beyond any one product, plus the occasional tangent, I hope you'll follow along on Substack.
You can read my first post here.