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A technology-independent framework engineered from first principles to address architectural challenges in legal technology: high coupling to volatile legal logic and non-deterministic outputs from opaque reasoning models.

Washington’s estate tax changed sharply on July 1, 2025, with a $3M threshold and rates up to 35%. Illinois stays at a $4M exclusion with mandatory Form 700 filing over the threshold. Here’s what families and advisors should do heading into 2026.

How four specialized components turn complex legal rules into deterministic, client-ready documents using the Velcro Model of Law.

Why a legal ontology is not a taxonomy, and why it must behave more like infrastructure than metadata.

How FTL separates orchestration, execution, and routing to build legal systems that explain every decision through declared rules—not black-box predictions.

Why facts—not queries—are the true unit of legal reasoning, and what happens when you bind them correctly.

Law isn't a pile of text to search through. It's a structured system of rules, exceptions, and temporal changes. Here's why schema-first architecture beats semantic similarity every time.

How we extract, filter, and map rules of law across statutes to build a navigable legal universe.

How manual workflows drain productivity and how automation recovers lost time.

The communication gap that leads to implementation failures and how visual tools solve it.

Understanding the critical differences between basic assembly and true automation - and why it matters for your practice.

Everything you need to know about compliance requirements for modern estate planning practices.

Learn why 60% of prospects abandon traditional intake forms and how modern solutions are solving this problem.

The most common IOLTA compliance violations and how automated systems prevent them.

Why manual template updates are risky and how automated systems keep you compliant.

Data-driven analysis showing how intelligent intake systems deliver 3-5x ROI in the first year.

The limitations of calendar-based deadline tracking and what works better.

How visual scenario modeling helps clients make better estate tax decisions.

How to create and maintain a clause library that improves document quality and consistency.

How comprehensive audit trails protect your practice and defend against claims.

How automated conflict checking during intake prevents ethical violations and protects your practice.

How visual family trees prevent errors in complex beneficiary designations.

How modern collaboration tools improve communication and reduce errors.