Embedded Product Counsel
Ongoing counsel from inside the product team rather than from outside it, reaching across the technical work, the legal work, and the compliance obligations at once, for as long as the engagement runs.
How it works
Retained, not per-matter
A monthly retainer rather than a fee per question, so the thing you would hesitate to open a matter for is the thing you raise first.
Inside the build
In the specs, the standups and the pull request discussions, where a decision is still cheap to change.
One person, both halves
The same person reads the architecture and the agreement, so nothing is lost translating between your engineers and outside counsel.
Scoped to a stage
Engagements run for a defined stretch of the product, a build, a launch, a raise, and are reviewed at the end of it.
What it reaches into
Technical Development, Structuring & Audit
Architecture, engineering, testing and audit decisions reviewed as they are made, not after they ship.
20 servicesLegal Review, Audit & Commercialization
Review, audit, ownership and commercial agreements handled as the product changes, rather than redrafted or discovered at the end.
8 servicesIndustry Compliance
Governance, data protection, responsible AI, safety and security obligations held continuously rather than revisited at audit time.
5 servicesThe rest of the practice
Technical Development, Structuring & Audit
Building the product, and proving it holds. Company and product structuring, the engineering itself, and the testing and audit work that shows what was built behaves the way it was specified to.
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The product read as a legal object: what it promises the people using it, whether that holds up against the law it is actually subject to, who owns what inside it, and the agreements it reaches the market on.
ViewIndustry Compliance
Meeting the rules a product is actually judged against: governance and standards, data protection, responsible AI, product safety, and security, read against the sector the product operates in.
ViewTech Policy Contribution
Written and published work on how technology should be governed in Africa, and an open door for an opinion on a question you are working through.
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