What do hedge funds and law firms have in common?
Both run on encoded judgment.
Hedge funds don't hire traders to trade manually. They encode the strategy and let the system execute.
Law firms are heading the same direction. The value isn't in the manual work anymore. It's in the encoded judgment and the infrastructure that runs it at scale.
I saw this play out in real time building fintech and crypto. The moment you encode domain expertise into systems, the entire economics change.
The people who can translate their judgment into repeatable logic become the most valuable in the room. Finance has quants. Law is now getting its own: legal quants.
AI has reached the point where legal judgment can be modeled the same way. Contract risk scoring, clause-level deviation detection, compliance pattern matching, regulatory signal processing.
The same encode-execute-learn loop that transformed trading floors is now running on legal workflows. The barrier that kept law manual for decades is dissolving fast.
This is the most exciting intersection I've seen since early crypto.