Who knew studying startup regulation jargon might be enjoyable? As somebody who spent eight lengthy years in post-secondary training, I’ve discovered a factor or two about how I research, and the primary and most… | Josh Lokko

Who knew studying startup regulation jargon might be enjoyable?

As somebody who spent eight lengthy years in post-secondary training, I’ve discovered a factor or two about how I research, and the primary and most vital of those classes is that I completely hate memorizing definitions.

However, as a former securities lawyer and now CEO of a startup, I’ve additionally discovered {that a} fundamental familiarity with the phrases of artwork (enjoyable reality: “term of art” is lawyer jargon for “jargon”, as a result of why not?) of a observe can go a good distance.

Now that I’m a purchaser fairly than supplier of authorized companies, I’m *very* conscious that the additional 0.2 from an harmless “sorry, remind me what that means?” pays for about 3 months of Claude Pro…

My analysis led me to Latham’s Book of Jargon for Emerging Companies, which, because the title implies, is an industry-jargon dictionary. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if anybody publishes assets like this in post-GenAI world; will slang turn into the moat for white collar staff towards AI?

I briefly thought of studying the BoJ, then realized that there was completely no means I’d truly end it. In 2026, what can we do after we do not feel like doing one thing?

Use AI, after all.

That mentioned, I wanted to really be taught these phrases, so I made a decision to gamify it by constructing “So You Think You Know Startup Law?”. I had been that means to experiment extra with multi-agent programs, so after utilizing Gemini CLI to put in writing a script to transform the BoJ into JSON of time period/definition pairs, I got down to construct the sport.

The very first thing I constructed was the customized query era engine. The engine used three brokers:

– The Architect, which drafted the preliminary model of every query
– The Senior Associate, which reviewed for accuracy, readability, and general high quality
– The Librarian, which checked the phrases and definitions towards the supply materials

Questions created, I dictated a PRD and prompted Codex to create the sport. It made a pleasant UI, and the sport labored, nevertheless it was decidedly not enjoyable. I’m many issues, however I’m not a recreation designer, so I requested Gemini to search out me an article I as soon as got here throughout about ideas of recreation design.

Turns out, the writer, Ralph Koster, is a recreation design legend and has a weblog with an enormous archive of articles. I used to be nonetheless busy, so I gave Claude the hyperlink for his “best of” web page by way of my Dr. Calvin plugin, and requested it to learn the articles, summarize them, and extract the ideas right into a .md file. Using that analysis, it then created a plan for a way we may leverage Koster’s steerage to make our recreation truly partaking.

Did it work?

Well, you could find out – I’m becoming a member of the LegalQuants group, and having not less than one open-source undertaking is a requirement. Until now, I’ve stored all my coding work non-public, and ultimately I’ll add auth and host this, however for now, hyperlink to the repo is within the feedback!