From Foundry LabsAI
How well AI tools do real work, and what the evidence says about how Australia should approach AI: evaluations on real Australian law, and AI policy.
Foundry Labs builds AI for law firms, and Mark co-chairs the AI Working Group of the Digital Economy Council of Australia.
Legal AI
How well do AI tools do legal research, and how do you check their work? Evaluations on real Australian law.
Foundry Labs works with the law firm Madison Marcus on innovation in legal AI, and builds AI for law firms.
Name-Swapping and Redaction for Offshore Legal AI
Swapping names before a document goes to an offshore model cost one to two points of accuracy. Redacting them cost more than twenty.
Can a Fast Decision Model Check Legal Citations?
A fast, typed decision model matched a frontier model on citation errors a lawyer catches at a glance, five times faster.
Beyond the Citation Check
76% of failures identified would pass a citation check. Password-gated: it names two commercial systems directly.
AI policy
What the evidence says about how Australia should approach AI, from Parliament’s inquiry: sovereignty, compute, agents and who is accountable.
Mark co-chairs the AI Working Group of the Digital Economy Council of Australia, which prepared DECA’s submission to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, and gave evidence at its 16 October 2026 hearing.
Australia, We Need to Talk About AI
AI capability is rising and cost is falling, yet only about 12% of Australian businesses use AI. Why the figures differ, who is building, and where policy should focus.
Parliament’s AI Inquiry: What You Missed
The Joint Select Committee on AI in one read: who spoke, the words that came up most, five themes, and the full hearings to watch.