Not researched from the outside. Not designed from a survey. Four firms commissioned bespoke tools for how they actually practice — and those tools are still running in those firms today. They became this platform.
A personal injury firm was sending medical records out to a third-party service, paying by the page and waiting three days for a chronology. They asked whether it could be done differently. It could — seven reports came back in sixty-three seconds for eight cents. The outsourcing ended that week.
A family law practice was spending half a day per client turning an intake form into court documents, re-typing the same details three times along the way. They asked for the same thing. Now the intake form produces the documents.
That happened four times, at four firms, over a year — each one designed, built, and put into production inside the practice it was for. At some point it stopped being four separate projects and started being one platform. The firms had already decided the pieces were worth having; they were using them every day.
Since 2020, founder of an AI consulting practice across the public and private sector, grown past $1M in annual recurring revenue — and for four of those six years he was the only employee, writing every line of code and winning every engagement himself.
Before that, eight years with the Navy, from 2011 to 2019, leading machine learning and analytics work for a Naval command — including evaluating the technology deployed on US ships. He came to it straight out of a PhD in applied mechanics that produced a new machine learning algorithm derived from first principles. Twenty-plus peer-reviewed papers and a patent behind it.
Fifteen years of building models that had to survive review before anyone would act on them — first a Navy program office, then a client’s C-suite. A client file deserves the same standard — which is why every finding in LexiSync cites the page it came from, and every access to a record is logged.
Building software since 1991 — and for most of the last two decades spent finding and protecting confidential data inside customer systems: data loss prevention, public key infrastructure, PCI compliance, and end-to-end encryption built to take raw cardholder data out of retail point-of-sale entirely. He ran a certificate-authority engineering program — security infrastructure that has to be trustworthy by construction and governance, not by promise. PHI doesn’t get a lower bar.
In 2000, before smartphones — point-of-care clinical documentation for neonatal and pediatric intensive care: bedside PDAs that captured diagnoses and the care given as it happened. Once connected to the network, everything synced automatically, billing data included, with nothing left to re-enter by hand — the same discipline, secure and automatic handling of protected health information, that LexiSync runs on today.
A decade in factory automation taught him to see repetitive manual work as a design flaw, not a fact of life. The last several years have gone to applying that instinct with AI — removing the hours, the re-typing, and the assembly from legal work instead of a production line. The chronologies, the document generation, and the drafting engines inside LexiSync are that focus.
He leads engineering here: the document generation engine, the cloud architecture, and every decision about how a privileged file is stored, encrypted, and logged. The parts of LexiSync a firm never sees are the parts he has spent thirty-five years on.
Name partner at McLaughlin Tarrin Law, LLC, practicing family law since 2006. Colorado courts appoint her as a Child and Family Investigator, Child Legal Representative, Guardian ad Litem, and Counsel for Youth — the roles where a judge, not a client, picks the attorney and then relies on what she reports back.
That work produces documents a judge reads and two opposing counsel attack line by line. Twenty years of writing to that standard is what shaped the family law side of this platform — the matter workflows, the case notes, and every part of the custody analysis.
Her firm was the first firm on LexiSync. She has spent a year inside the product on live matters, which is the reason the family law suite is built the way the work is actually done — rather than the way a software company imagines it.
Kristen holds equity in LexiSync, and her firm runs on it. Both seemed worth saying.
A small firm evaluating software deserves to know the edges before it signs, not after.
Bring a document, a set of records, or just the part of your week you most resent. If LexiSync isn’t the right fit, we’ll tell you on the call rather than after you’ve signed.