As a company that has always prided itself on innovation and staying ahead of the curve, Syntheia recognizes the need to adapt to changing market conditions. While our existing products were groundbreaking in their time, the rapid development of generative AI technology has rendered database and search technologies obsolete. (happy April Fool’s)

Bespoke classification models need training in order to work. Training models costs the time of lawyers and experts, and that is the most valuable resource a law firm can deploy. To help law firms decide how to best allocate time, we look at the impact of three key levers - (1) picking the best model (or vendor), (2) collecting more training data, and (3) improve the quality of the training data.

As a startup serving lawyers, we have to work very hard to build trust with our prospective customers. We chat with Quintra Rijnders about how she ventured into running a startup from her career in professional services, and her philosophy for identifying the real value our products can provide to prospective customers.

There has been a lot of hype in the media around the capabilities of GPT and its likely impact on a number of sectors, including the legal sector. We decided to record a conversation about what it means to have an intelligent machine with our friend, Dr Stephen Enright-Ward, the CTO of a regtech / fintech company, Bilby.

With the holiday season in full swing and Mariah Carey playing on loop over Spotify, Ben Wightwick of Autologyx took time before Christmas to have a candid conversation with us about what the legal tech companies actually do over the holidays. We hope this blog will share an interesting insider view on how our company operates, and will be the first of many exposés.

Is it a good idea to be creating and pushing a proprietary file format?

Our view is “generally, no”. There are a raft of challenges with this endeavor.

Watch this video chat with Dr. Cain Elliott to understand what Filevine wants to achieve with their new document format.

Front Foot Academy offers pragmatic and principled advice on how to improve legal operations. We think this type of educational courses is an integral part of the innovation ecosystem that helps lawyers perform their jobs better. We chat with David to find out how the old adage - “people, process, product” - combine to solve problems for lawyers.

The legal profession has become better at understand what data science can do and where it can apply to the practice of law, but there is still an air of mystique around how lawyers talk about data science. Some still speak of data science as a black box process that can answer difficult questions with a wave of their hand. We had a conversation with the very humble Aquib Javed Khan about this…

Back in March this year, the brilliant Colin Lachance and I had a conversation about his joint venture, Jurisage, knowledge graphs, and legal data. For those interested in using data to solve legal problems, it would be worth your while to take a look at this video for our in-depth discussion.

We are delighted to announce that we have acquired Motionize, which also offers a Word Add-In that improves access to knowledge and provides drafting guidance to transactional lawyers.

Joshua Schoen, Co-Founder and CEO of Motionize, says, “We believe this combination will ultimately bring forth a category defining drafting product...”