Forum Ventures

Software Engineer

• Architect the end-to-end technology stack for the Shepherd platform (LLM infrastructure, workflow engine, database design, API integrations (Slack, Docusign, etc).
• Establish engineering best practices, technical roadmap, and long-term architecture decisions.
• Build the foundation for a secure, compliant system that meets startup and enterprise legal standards.
• Own the evaluation, fine-tuning, and deployment of LLMs for contract analysis, summarization, redlining, and risk scoring.
• Build our core features: AI contract review and redlines, context-aware AI, smart drafting and document automation, workflow automation, legal hub for requests, docs, alerts, and lawyer interaction.
• Design human-in-the-loop systems that blend AI speed with attorney validation.
• Translate ambiguous legal workflows into clean, reliable, repeatable technical systems.
• Work directly with early customers to validate and iterate on features in real time.
• Set up infrastructure that meets SOC-2 and privacy standards.
• Implement secure document storage, access controls, role-based permissions, and audit trails.
• Ensure ethical, compliant, and trustworthy use of AI models across the platform.
• Hire and lead a world-class engineering team as we scale (frontend, backend, ML/AI).

Founding Engineer

Engineering Manager

• Building and managing a worldclass product team
• Integrating with Microsoft products like CoPilot and Fabric
• Reviewing the application architecture for speed and performance improvements
• Maintaining the askpolly roadmap, monitoring the market research landscape, and imagining new solutions to marketing problems
• Budgeting and reporting spend

VP of Engineering

Attorney

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements (NDAs, MSAs, SaaS agreements, vendor contracts, DPAs, IP assignments).
• Support clients through early-stage fundraising events, including SAFEs, convertible notes, equity grants, and board consents.
• Advise on employment and HR legal issues, including offer letters, contractor agreements, termination guidance, and IP / confidentiality protections.
• Provide clear, practical, business-oriented legal guidance tailored to founders.
• Maintain and refine template contract libraries, clause banks, and negotiation playbooks.
• Help build scalable frameworks for intake, review, and escalation.
• Identify repeatable patterns and convert them into structured workflows.
• Use AI-assisted contract review tools to increase efficiency and consistency.
• Provide feedback to improve risk scoring, drafting suggestions, and review flows.
• Participate in defining where attorney judgment vs. automation should apply.
• Support client onboarding, engagement letters, conflict checks, and file management.
• Ensure compliance with ethical, confidentiality, and UPL guidelines across the platform.
• Work with cross-functional teams to embed legal guardrails into core workflows.

Associate Attorney, AI-Native Law Firm

Director

• Investment Decisions – You’ll be involved in evaluating and selecting the companies we ultimately invest in for each program and that you’ll work with.
• Winning Deals – You’ll build rapport with prospective founders, demonstrate our value and differentiation as a fund, and sell yourself as the person they will build with.
• Overall Founder Experience - You’ll act as an extension of each company’s founding team, meet weekly with the founders and add value across key aspects of their business.
• Fundraising – It’s our goal to help as many companies in the program raise capital as possible. A big portion of your role will be to help make that happen – by making appropriate introductions, helping to craft the perfect pitch, and everything in between to prepare your companies to fundraise.

Managing Director

Compliance

• Build an AI-native compliance platform for regulated electric utilities
• Automate evidence collection, anomaly detection, and audit preparation across 95+ NERC standards
• Embed AI into utility workflows to cut costs and reduce risks

Founder – Energy Grid Compliance

Artificial Intelligence

• Build an AI-native compliance platform for the nuclear industry
• Create a nuclear-grade platform that unifies regulatory intelligence, supplier documentation, and plant operations
• Utilize predictive AI, automation, and audit-ready dashboards to enhance operational safety and efficiency

Founder, Nuclear Compliance AI

• Build a real-time network inventory intelligence platform for telecom operators.
• Address issues caused by inventory drift that leads to failed connections and excessive truck rolls
• Create a cloud-based “truth layer” that reconciles physical network assets with recorded data systems

Founder – Telecom Inventory AI

• Build an AI-driven insurance and compliance onboarding platform for construction firms.
• Digitize forms, validate coverage in real time, and embed workflows directly into platforms like Procore and Bridgit.

Founder – AI-Driven Construction Compliance Platform

• Lead and build an AI-native compliance platform for regulated electric utilities
• Automate evidence collection, anomaly detection, and audit preparation across 95+ NERC standards
• Embed AI directly into utility operational workflows to cut costs and reduce risks
• Keep operators audit-ready at all times and prepare for regulatory audits
• Validate compliance workflows with utility customers and engage regulators, operators, and engineers
• Work with Forum’s team for product, engineering, growth, fundraising, and company-building support

Founder, Energy Grid Compliance, AI

• Join us to help shape the future of secure AI adoption. As a core member of our engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in building Iron Book, our platform for governing and securing AI agents in the enterprise.
• From designing access controls to advancing compliance and auditability, you’ll work closely with leadership to influence both the product and the technical direction of the company.
• Own the stack end-to-end and build the foundation of a platform designed to make AI adoption safe, trusted, and enterprise-ready.

General Counsel

• Serve as the legal co-founder and senior advisor on all matters of regulatory compliance, UPL boundaries, and risk management
• Define the legal structure for the hybrid model (tech entity + law firm entity) and oversee multi-jurisdictional licensing as we scale
• Help shape the pricing and delivery model for legal services integrated with our SaaS product
• Develop and maintain a scalable legal review framework using flat-fee and subscription-based models
• Oversee the creation and upkeep of legal templates, compliance content, and jurisdictional updates
• Implement processes for AI-assisted legal workflows with human-in-the-loop review for risk-sensitive matters
• Ensure the platform and law firm operate within UPL-safe frameworks and meet ethical and professional standards
• Build internal policies for client intake, engagement letters, disclaimers, and document management
• Collaborate with the product team to embed legal guardrails into the platform
• Recruit, mentor, and manage a small but high-performing team of attorneys and legal ops specialists
• Act as a trusted point of escalation for complex legal matters
• Build relationships with regulators, legal tech communities, and strategic partners to advance our mission
• Work hand-in-hand with the founding team to transform how legal support is delivered to high-growth companies

Partner / Chief Legal Officer

Product Manager

• Build products that enable medical discoveries while protecting patient privacy
• Identify and validate customer needs from the evolving ICP and represent customers in product development
• Articulate product vision and strategy for internal and external audiences
• Understand and map the competitive landscape and keep it updated
• Work closely with engineering to maintain and update the product roadmap
• Coordinate with stakeholders in engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success on priorities and deliverables
• Monitor product performance to enable data-driven decisions
• Work with customers to establish ROI and provide information for case studies

Founding Engineer

VP of Engineering

Associate Attorney, AI-Native Law Firm

Managing Director

Founder – Energy Grid Compliance

Founder, Nuclear Compliance AI

Founder – Telecom Inventory AI

Founder – AI-Driven Construction Compliance Platform

Founder, Energy Grid Compliance, AI

Founding Engineer

Partner / Chief Legal Officer

Product Manager – Private AI