Field notes.
What we're learning about Firm Memory, written down — in the voice we'd use at the table, not the voice we'd use on a deck.
№ 01 · 21 May 2026№ 02–03№ 04 · 22 August 2026
Also published
№ 01 – 03№ 03 · Published
Your archive knows things no single matter file knows.
Why the hardest knowledge questions are not document questions — and what a system has to do when the answer lives across the archive.
Read the note →№ 02 · Published
The most useful answer a legal AI can give is “the firm hasn't done this.”
Why refusal and gap detection matter more than fluent answers over a firm's own archive.
Read the note →№ 01 · Published
What we learned generating a 700-document synthetic legal corpus.
The trust-architecture argument, with the receipts.
Read the note →In preparation.
Notes drafted and scheduled. Windows shift only if the writing isn't ready — not if the calendar is.
Notes 05 – 07 · upcoming
№ 05
The gap between RAG demos and production legal knowledge systems.
Citation enforcement, gap detection, refusal discipline — the engineering substance behind a demo that doesn't lie.
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30 queries, 29 passes, one honest fail.
What the evaluation pack revealed about the system — and what we shipped anyway.
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№ 07
What Firm Memory will not do.
The negative claims as a manifesto.
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