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Issue 27 · 29 June 2026
The US Just Proved Your AI Vendor's Access Can Vanish Overnight
This issue: an export-control order cuts off foreign AI access overnight, plus this week's workshop on building a contract triage process and the prompt to build it yourself.
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This Week's Workshop & Prompt
Workshop
How to Build a Contract Triage Process Your Clients Can Run Themselves
Set your risk parameters once, and AI turns them into a structured triage workflow your clients can run themselves below your threshold.
Key Insight:
Upload it to your intranet and watch the trivial queries start routing themselves.
Prompt
The Contract Triage Process Builder Prompt
Builds a complete self-serve triage process — risk thresholds, a decision tree, and a ready-to-upload intranet page.
News
Washington Cuts Off Foreign Access to Anthropic's Most Powerful Models
A US export-control order cuts off foreign access overnight — here's why you need a system independent of your AI provider...

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Issue 27 · 29 June 2026

The US Just Proved Your AI Vendor's Access Can Vanish Overnight

This week's news: a US export-control order cuts off foreign access to Anthropic's two most powerful models overnight, Brussels delays the AI Act's toughest obligations by sixteen months, and a regulated AI law firm wins its first contested trial in a UK county court.

Workshop
How to Build a Contract Triage Process Your Clients Can Run Themselves

Set your risk parameters once, and AI turns them into a structured triage workflow your clients or business teams can run themselves below your threshold — anything above it still comes to you.

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Prompt
The Contract Triage Process Builder Prompt

Builds the full triage process — risk thresholds, a decision tree, intranet page copy, and a ready-to-upload HTML page.

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Past Issues

Issue 26 · 22 June 2026

When Regulators Retreat and Courts Push Forward

Workshop
How to Pre-Mortem Your Own Ideas

Stress-test a decision before you commit to it, surfacing the obstacles that optimism and confirmation bias usually hide.

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Prompt
The Pre-Mortem Strategic Analysis Prompt

Run a structured pre-mortem on any business idea, project, or strategic decision before committing time, money, or reputation.

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This issue's news: the Ninth Circuit's hallucination-sanctions ruling, Colorado's AI Act repeal, and the EU's AI-content labelling rules. Read the full issue →

Issue 25 · 8 June 2026

Building AI Your Clients and Colleagues Can Actually Trust

Workshop
100+ Agents & Workflows, Personalised to You

Spend 10 minutes with a GPT interview about your role and workflows, and get a bespoke set of 100+ business-ready agents and workflows back, free.

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Prompt
The AI Governance Risk Audit Prompt

Work through a structured set of questions with any LLM to produce a one-page AI governance summary for your General Counsel.

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This issue's news: why legal AI adoption stalls at the individual level, and a major EU AI Act overhaul extending compliance deadlines. Read the full issue →

Issue 24 · 1 June 2026

Three Ideas on AI & Agents for Legal Work

Workshop
Building Legal Agents from Scratch

Watch a working legal AI agent built and run live, end to end, in under 30 minutes.

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Prompt
Prompt for Rapid Contract Analysis

Paste in any contract and get the top five commercial and legal risks flagged automatically, with negotiation counter-points.

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This issue's news: recent AI governance developments for legal teams. Read the full issue →

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