About
Software for legal work, and the awkward gap between a source, a system, and a decision.
I'm Cooper. I build software for legal work, usually somewhere between a messy source document and the point where someone needs to make a call.
Work
I'm a co-founder and CTO at Tilt Legal. I spend most of my time on the engineering and product work: figuring out the real constraints, building the useful path through them, and making sure the system leaves enough behind for someone else to check the work.
A lot of that has gone into Mobius, where we're working on agents for difficult legal tasks. The aim isn't a convincing chat response. It's a system that can find the relevant material, use tools when it needs to, show its working, and leave the actual call with the lawyer.
Background
I studied law and computer science, with a focus on AI and data science, at Monash. Before Tilt, I worked in Herbert Smith Freehills' Digital Law Group and legal-operations teams. That was where I learnt how quickly a neat rule turns messy when it reaches an actual workflow.
The thread through all of it is fairly simple: make the useful thing, make its limits visible, and don't pretend every legal question can be solved with a technical answer. I also like working on structured legal information and the interfaces that make it easier for people and machines to use.