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The EU AI Act Doesn’t Need US Law to Reach You
On August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act’s high-risk obligations became fully enforceable. Organizations running AI systems in employment decisions, credit scoring, insurance underwriting, and other regulated domains are now legally required to prove, not just claim, that those systems are documented, monitored, and subject to human oversight. If you operate using AI in the […]
Add AI Hallucination Sanctions to Your Risk Horizon
The AI governance conversation usually runs on hypotheticals.  A menagerie of projected risk, theoretical exposure, and “what could go wrong.” The legal industry doesn’t have that luxury anymore. It has a body count. Court sanctions for AI-generated fake citations have now topped 1,031 cases globally, and the pace is accelerating: 30 to 50 new cases […]
PAGA Reform Didn’t Fix Anything. It Just Changed What You Have to Prove.
Two years ago, California struck a deal to save employers from themselves, or so the press releases said. AB 2288 and SB 92 were sold as a truce: tiered penalties, cure processes, an end to the free-for-all. The reform didn’t fail; it succeeded at something other than what the press releases promised. The sales pitch […]
Two Centuries of Land Records, Distilled Into a 3-D Jury Presentation
LITIGATION SUPPORT & DATA ANALYSIS Commercial — Oil & Gas Litigation Support [Client confidential] Plaintiffs alleged the gas company had defaulted on royalty payments across specific county sections. The outcome of this dispute demanded data extraction and analysis of land records, mineral rights claims dating to the 1800s, and the physical path the gas actually […]
Zero-Downtime Cloud Migration, 15x Return on Investment
CLOUD MIGRATION & MODERNIZATION Commercial — Property Management [Client name confidential] The company’s hosted Exchange system wasn’t working, and executive leadership wanted to move fully to the Cloud — but the standard path to get there put up to $310,000 in downtime and troubleshooting costs on the table before a single mailbox moved.   15x […]
The Next Governance Challenge is not AI. It is Human Intent.
Introduction In my opinion, we’re asking the wrong questions about AI governance. Most organizations are investing significant time and resources in governing AI models, approving tools, and strengthening security controls. Those are important foundations, but they don’t address where every AI-assisted decision truly begins, with human intent. Before AI generates an answer, someone has already […]
649,533 Images Spanning a Century and a Half of County History
OFFICIAL RECORDS DIGITIZATION & INDEXING Snohomish County, Washington From 1862 to 2002, Snohomish County’s Deeds, Marriage Certificates, Mining Claims, and dozens of other statutory records were retrievable only by physically pulling bound volumes off a shelf.   649,533 IMAGES CAPTURED 1,387 BOOKS DIGITIZED 46 PRODUCTION DAYS THE SITUATION The Snohomish County Auditor’s Office needed 1,387 […]
6.1 Million Images Across Nine Phases and Eight Years
MULTI-PHASE RECORDS MODERNIZATION Pierce County, Washington More than a century of Pierce County deeds, mortgages, liens, and vital records sat across bound volumes, microfilm, and loose paper — too large a backlog for the Auditor’s Office to convert without a partner built for scale.   6.1M IMAGES CAPTURED 6,978 BOOKS, ROLLS & BOXES 9 PHASES, […]
Nearly a Century of Kitsap County Records, Unified in One Program
OFFICIAL RECORDS DIGITIZATION & INDEXING Kitsap County, Washington Kitsap County’s land and public records lived in two very different worlds — bound and mechanical index books, and 269 rolls of 16mm rollfilm — and both needed to become one searchable digital record. 442,537 IMAGES CAPTURED 99.99% VERIFIED ACCURACY 38 PRODUCTION DAYS THE SITUATION Under a […]