Kevin O'Connell

Deterministic document comparison at scale — now within Claude, ChatGPT, and via REST API

[Jonathan Rosenbluth @jrbluth]

Law firms say they’re built to serve clients. In truth, they're built to serve their partners.

Blackletter raised $6M to put clients first. Led by @LererHippeau with the CEOs of @cohere, @twelvelabs and @adaption_ai.

75+ clients, from day-to-day work to @WindBorneWx's $37M Series B.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@jrbluth @LererHippeau @cohere @twelvelabs @adaption_ai @WindBorneWx Huge congrats to you, David, Avi, and the whole Blackletter team on the $6M seed! Working with your team over the past few months, it is clear how much faster a firm moves when frontier AI engineers and practicing attorneys build side by side around fixed fees.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@JesterInABarrel @jborstein I appreciate witnessing this moment of human connection between an anon account and an identified person here on X.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

Lawyers work in Word, but clients approve on their phones. The redline that gets looked at is the one that looks the same on every screen. https://t.co/cO6M9nS2sA

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@JesterInABarrel We entrust law profs to craft good hypos.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@willchen500

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@scottastevenson 💯

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@Sc_Meerkat @DavidMiller @svpino Incorrect. Solving problems for customers is the main product. Code is a delivery vehicle.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@theNickBerk Redlines, in the true meaning of the word, are the verification layer of legal.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@Mecha_Kong @biglawbro You see irritability, I read poetry.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@Ken_LinkWell @cherry_mx_reds This could be a huge wedge moment for startups. If you don’t have agents running defensive system audits, you’re at huge risk. Not six months from now. Today.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@kylecanchola 👆this is a fire 🔥 take

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@willchen500 Serious question: what was the last real example of a winner takes all market? LinkedIn is what comes to my mind.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

Last night I built an app to cover regression tests from my keyboard, superhuman style.

I saved for the end, “Claude, add a button that locks the baseline, confetti shower. Don’t press the button. I want to press the button.”

Claude pressed the button.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@Sony91121271 Whoa you just outed me… to myself.
Claude === video games? 🤯

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@zackbshapiro We’re still in the early innings. For AI natives moving upmarket, there’s no ceiling in sight. We haven’t even reached the phase where AI can do all the dilligence, all the doc review.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@SamaHoole Seems like the main takeaway is we need to run this experiment back a few more times.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@alexfmac I’m not sure I understand. Why is being made to feel physically uncomfortable a positive? It sounds like your body was telling you to avoid these individuals.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@aaronklaw Alignment has gotten out of control. While updating our DPA, my compliance AI offered to volunteer me for FedRAMP quarterly reporting to the General Services Administration.

[Kevin O'Connell @kkoconnell]

@biglawbro Trenchant, lacerating.