Season 2 is here.
In our opener, we sit down with Anson Lai — commercial counsel by day, relentless tinkerer by night — who walks us through how he built and published a document review tool as a Microsoft Word add-in that rivals offerings from legal AI startups raising hundreds of millions.
The kicker? He did it in weeks. And he's giving it away.
This isn't theoretical. Anson shares his screen, shows us the tool live, and opens the hood on what makes it work. No mystique. No black box. Just a lawyer who got tired of copy-pasting contracts into ChatGPT tabs and decided to do something about it.
What You'll Learn:
- "Vibe Coding" — How conversing with AI tools (not just instructing them) shaped better technical decisions
- "Bring Your Own Key" Architecture — Why your documents going straight to Google's API (with no middleman) actually matters
- Where the Real Moat Lives — If building software now takes hours not months, differentiation lies in the refinements — the nested lists, tables, and edge cases where most AI tools quietly fall apart
Connect with Anson: LinkedIn | GitHub (Open Source Project)
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