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MTS · 3 min · Nov 5, 2026
FluxCap plans to expand its legal AI one practice area at a time
FluxCap spent over a year building with former DOJ lawyers and Palantir engineers, then expanded from antitrust one practice area at a time.
In this episode
Full episode- 2:11High-stakes litigation needs more than basic legal tech3 min
- 5:23Concentrated AI markets can lock out new competitors4 min
- 13:13Prosecutors will need to interrogate algorithms3 min
- 9:49Tech companies should build for the long game in Washington4 min
- 16:17FluxCap plans to expand its legal AI one practice area at a time3 min
“we have to go domain by domain the way you would with the practice area inside of a law firm.”
Takeaways
- The team combined former DOJ lawyers with Palantir engineers.
- FluxCap says legal AI needs expertise in each practice area.
- Antitrust launched first; another area was nearing beta testing.
About this segment
FluxCap spent over a year building with former DOJ lawyers and Palantir engineers, then expanded from antitrust one practice area at a time. The approach reflects its view that legal AI needs deep domain expertise.
FluxCap
Theo Jaffee, Host · Co-founder & host, MTS
One of the first members of a16z's new media team; earlier hosted the Emergent Ventures-backed Theo Jaffee Podcast.
Sophia Dew, Host · Host, MTS
From “Why Basic Legal Software Fails High-Stakes Trials | FluxCap”, Nov 5, 2026. Watch the full episode
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Transcript
Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.
- 16:21
expect to use this every day it's there we weren't we were building this for uh over a year and so we were in stealth mode. We had to test and retest it. Just a little bit of background. We had a no compromises team. So we took a bunch of our former colleagues from the Department of Justice, some of the finest lawyers we've ever had the privilege and honor of working with. And then we had a team of former Palantir engineers who came together with a vision.
- 16:44
And we worked together really in a fully integrated way from the outset. And we've been building and testing. And part of our, unlike the BLT, our view is we need deep legal tech understands domain, understands the precise area of law and go area by area. You wouldn't hire a tax lawyer to litigate an antitrust case and you wouldn't hire an antitrust lawyer to do a labor and employment discrimination. So that domain expertise in a high trust, high stakes environment is going to require that deep legal technology, which is what we've built. And it's out in the wild. People are using it already. We've been in stealth mode, invite only, and it's extraordinary.
- 17:19
It just, you know, we can talk about how it's built, but ultimately it works better than anything else on the market. It's smarter. The results that it produces are far more professional. It's more precise. And it gives lawyers the tools that they need, provenance, traceability, auditing. It's what we would want to use and what we would use. And that makes a huge difference. Wow. All right. So what's next?
- 17:43
I know this week you officially announced that you came out of stealth. what can people expect to see from FluxCap over the next few months well i'll start um we're happily demoing and piloting with um so many different kinds of lawyers in different settings we have been overwhelmed by the reception and the demand we are digging out of the number of requests that we've received um but the technology is in use i mean it's already surfacing massive scams and schemes that are attacks on the gdp to the tune of billions of dollars um and we're we're excited for the first cases to get filed yeah and and so we work with both private firms and governments and so we're in procurement with a number of government agencies which is really exciting and like i mentioned we have to go domain by domain the way you would with the
- 18:40
practice area inside of a law firm. And so we are already on to our next practice. We started with antitrust, which is what we know. And then we're already on to our second practice area, which I can't disclose today, but it's getting ready to start beta testing and should be rolling out in the coming months. And just like a great law firm would go practice group by practice group, we're going to be rolling out additional practice areas. We created an architecture and infrastructure that is capable of going deep into each domain and producing the kind of quality of legal results and output that satisfy our exacting standards.