What Building Legal AI Actually Teaches You
Six essays from the workbench, written while turning a real legal AI platform into something a partner would put their name under.
Experiments from the Lab
Numbers-driven research on financial markets, the economy and legal AI, plus the experiments we run. Most of it is open; one paper needs a password.
Maybe We Are Looking at the Wrong Part of the AI Story
An AI agent cancelled a stranger's gym booking to move its user up a waitlist. The interesting part isn't that the agent found a way to do it. It's that the booking system let it. The vulnerability was there long before anyone connected an AI to it.
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09:04Where the ETF money is flowing
Mark Monfort joins ausbiz TV to talk ETFs, markets and digital assets.
An Office of AI could help. But only if it becomes a place to talk
A Foundry Labs perspective on Australia's proposed AI framework. The new Office of AI could become a place where real examples are examined before positions harden,…
The Legal AI Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Problem
The legal industry is debating which AI model will win. After a year of building and testing legal AI systems, we think that is the wrong question. The firms that su…
From Chat to Action: What the Agentic AI Shift Means for Enterprise Operations
AI systems that take actions rather than generate responses represent a fundamentally different risk model. Here is what that shift demands of enterprise implementat…
Rethinking the Document: Why HTML Might Be the Most Underrated Output Format in AI
We still expect AI systems to produce Word documents and static PDFs. But what if the most useful output format isn't a document at all, it's a self-contained, porta…
Rethinking How We Build AI
There is a growing assumption in the AI world that progress is primarily a function of model quality. Bigger models. Newer models. Faster models. Each release framed…
Why AI Will Force Companies to Rediscover Operations
The moment organisations attempt to integrate AI into real workflows, all of the hidden operational problems start surfacing at once. AI is becoming one of the faste…
The Real Skill in AI Isn't Prompting
Prompting is only a small part of the equation. What actually determines whether an AI system is useful inside a real organisation has far more to do with context, w…
Introducing Foundry Labs
Building practical AI, data and technology systems that turn organisational complexity into action.