Microsoft Word

You probably need to have like a, you know, each case, here's how much money I'm spending on the case.

But like, I imagine your primary tool was Microsoft Word.

And there wasn't, I mean, this is how like VCs would have like gotten this industry wrong before, which is like, oh, well, the software market for plaintiff law is small.

They all buy Microsoft Office.

And like, it's always just a weird thing because it's like, you can't say the software market is small, because you're a legal software company.

But people know Harvey or they know like corporate loss or like, you know, e-discovery tools that have been around.

But I imagine like what was the main software stack before Eve entered? Was it just Microsoft Word or like what was in order for me to go into business? I graduated from law school.

I want to be in this particular, you know, subsector of the field.

By the way, attorneys, if you need help with that, just call me because I can assure you.

In five seconds of looking at somebody's Word document, I can tell you how skilled they are at Microsoft Word or not.

But how do we, without having like a very specific example, let's say I use a practice management software that's just the backbone of my business, and it's popular, and I put in my job description, you should be experienced at using Clio for case management.

What are the types of questions that I would ask to confirm? And I'm not asking you to give me like literally what are the steps to opening a new matter kind of thing.

So a very clever gentleman from Silicon Valley said about 2011 that software will eat the world.

And so the question right now is, will AI eat software? Now, the best reason to think that Microsoft's not going to be blown up by AI is not because Microsoft Word is a fantastic program.

It's just because of the sheer inertia and incumbency, right, of corporates having to move.

But there's plenty of software companies who are clearly vulnerable.

And I had this neighbor who was a typewriter, and somehow he started learning about Microsoft Office.

And then I was just like, you know, can you teach me this? And he taught me how to, you know, like make different tables and all the other stuff in MS Word.

And I'm like, you know what? I have seen my dad making all these, you know, like scheduling and maybe I can use this to make his life easy.

So I told my dad, hey, we need a printer.

And he's like, why do you need a printer? I'm like, I'm going to.

you know, take all your handwritten records and put it in Microsoft Word.

And he didn't know what it means.

So I printed one document.

And they may come back and say, you know, here's a couple of things that I see about your sentence structure that you could possibly make your sentences shorter or longer or whatever they decide to say, right? And you can go ahead and after that evaluation is make changes to the manuscript as you see fit.

And then for the copy editing stage, what we do is we work in Microsoft Word.

You should send us a Word file.

And we use track changes so that you would see every change that the editor suggests.

I think it shows my values and shows what I want to be saying.

I still got to get cover art.

I got to format the thing properly, which anyone who struggled with trying to format something on Microsoft Word is just, you know, it's not an easy task to do.

And I don't think I've ever been successful with actually getting it done.

Those functionalities are what a software engineer in industrial practice needs all the time.

So this starts from doing things like I can do my requirements engineering in a fashion where I'm not just entering a talk prompt, but I do either task-based, user story-based spectrum development or the other way of spectrum development, coherent binding document, but not in the way that I write a Word document or a Confluence Wiki or something like this as a document, but with the agentic AI tool.

You can imagine, for instance, with AZ, if you do a specification, it means you have on your JIT repo a few markdown files, but it's not just arbitrary markdown files, it's typed markdown files, which gets strictly limited in your build process, and your agentic AI coding tool, like a Cloud Code, through the help of AZ, gets known all the meter information, the meter model behind the specification, the schema, et cetera.

So it understands your specification structurally wise exactly the way it understands your TypeScript code, for instance.

To reach the heights of Big Soda, National Beverage would need to scale its audience and operations beyond the United States.

But international expansion doesn't seem too likely with the nationalistic and old-school vibes I get from their CEO, who writes some of the most entertaining shareholder letters in what appears to be 1996 Microsoft Word and Clipart.

His commentaries often come off more like rants where the man has made it his personal mission to wage some religious holy war against Big Soda, but to his credit, LaCroix really seems to be holding its ground.

Even with all of these quirks, National Beverage Corporation does seem like a well-run, tightly managed ship with a clear vision and product.

So if you are an MSP camp member or not, but even if you are and you've really been wanting to run certain campaigns in there, it has never been easier.

You can take that Word document, have your agent, in our case, Victor, update it with your brand voice.

We'll get to that.

And then go ahead and get the whole campaign into your go high level like that.

all of my relatives told my parents that this is the devil in the house and that it takes all of Elena's attention and she's gonna be worse at homework.

And no, Elena got better because Elena learned how to use Word and Excel and other things.

And it was really helpful for her later in life.

And I think it's almost impossible to use AI without learning something.