Claudia Bothe

About

I've spent the better part of a decade in information security, first in consulting, now leading a security team in-house at a European asset manager. Highly regulated environments suit me. I like complexity, and I've never been someone who could stay in one lane. Over time, my work naturally expanded beyond the technical. Managing vendors, reviewing contracts, collaborating with legal counsel and procurement, these became as much a part of my day as threat models and audit trails. When my employer asked me to lead the introduction of AI governance, it felt less like a new direction and more like everything I'd been working toward converging at once: security, compliance, legal thinking, and the practical question of how AI actually gets used responsibly inside an organisation. That interdisciplinary pull is what eventually brought me to legal technology. I enrolled on an LL.M. in Legal Tech in the summer of 2025, having already spent years on the fringes of the legal world without the formal language to describe it. My academic background is a mix of engineering and social sciences, which probably explains why I'm more interested in how systems interact than in optimising any single one of them. What I'm building now is Scrutio, a regulatory contract compliance platform for EU financial institutions, born out of the LegalQuants Hackathon. It sits exactly at the intersection I've always worked in: security, regulation, contracts, and AI, brought together into something useful. My goal is to contribute to a world where legal technology, governance, and (financial) regulation are treated as what they already are: deeply connected.

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