Why nearby camera evidence disappears in 72 hours.
The forensic crisis nobody talks about — and the engineering response we've been building.
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Field Notes from a LegalTech Company
The Appalanche Field Notes.
Essays on evidence integrity, AI safety in law, patent strategy, and the gap between consumers and counsel — from the team building the platform.
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The latest from our desk.
The "no client-facing legal advice" line, and why it's load-bearing.
How we drew the boundary between augmenting attorney judgment and crossing into UPL territory — and why getting this wrong kills the company.
Read article →14 patent filings before a single dollar of revenue.
Most early-stage founders skip patents. We did the opposite — and here's the framework we used to decide what to file, when, and why.
Read article →Designing for impaired cognition.
What we changed in IncidentApp's UX after watching real users try to navigate the app under the cognitive load of an actual crash.
Read article →The $53B market that nobody owns.
Why personal injury and auto claim adjudication is structurally underserved by software — and what an opinionated platform looks like.
Read article →PHI in, PHI never out: a tokenization architecture.
How we architected the PHI-Tokenizer + PHI-Proxy stack so AI models can reason about medical context without ever seeing protected information in the clear.
Read article →SHA-256 at the camera: integrity sealing on iOS.
Notes from implementing cryptographic sealing at the moment of capture, including the platform constraints that kept us up at night.
Read article →The case for free forever (and the unit economics behind it).
Why IncidentApp is free for consumers — and how the B2B SaaS engine on the other side makes the math work.
Read article →SB 37 and the future of attorney-AI in California.
What California's most ambitious AI-in-law bill means for technology vendors — and the design choices that survive contact with regulation.
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