Kevin Keller
Tech lawyer turned builder in Silicon Valley with an electronics engineering background. Built CounselScope — an open-source platform that turns scattered legal department knowledge into a queryable system with expiration tracking, so outdated guidance doesn’t get recycled into current work. Spent two decades as product counsel at Amazon Lab126, Facebook, and Instacart before founding Tucuxi to build domain-specific AI that trades breadth for native fluency. Publishes on geometric consensus, full-stack product counsel, and why most legal departments don’t have a knowledge problem — they have a forgetting problem.
3 Projects
CounselScope
AI-powered legal query optimization platform that builds institutional memory from uploaded documents, tracks knowledge expiration with a “Good Until Date” system, and generates precisely-scoped requests for outside counsel — cutting 30–50% of unnecessary spend by surfacing what the department already knows.
Legal Week Cite Checker
iOS app that validates legal citations on the go using the CourtListener API. Enter a citation, get the case name, opinion text, and a direct link to the full document — built in SwiftUI for the Legal Week conference.
Open Loris
Intelligent Q&A platform that routes questions to domain experts, then converts their answers into automation rules so the same question never needs a human twice. Compounds over time — the more experts answer, the more the system handles on its own.
Featured In
- ACC Docket — Legal Tech: The Crucial Role of Legal Stewardship During the AI Revolution
A foundational piece arguing that general counsel offices need an “AI steward” role to govern adoption, balancing transformative potential against data, bias, and security risks.
- Medium — Full-Stack Product Counsel: Reclaiming the Original Vision
A manifesto on why the industry needs attorneys who can cover privacy, IP, regulatory, and transactions without triaging everything to specialists.
- Medium — From 30,000 Feet to Open Source: How CounselScope Reimagines Organizational Knowledge
The design philosophy behind CounselScope — extracting atomic knowledge from documents instead of summaries, and tracking when that knowledge expires.
- Global IP Exchange USA — Speaker: Kevin Keller
Featured speaker on intellectual property and AI governance at the IQPC Global IP Exchange conference.
Philosophy
“Product counsel should be full-stack, not a coordination role”
A single-threaded owner who can make judgment calls across privacy, IP, regulatory, and transactions under uncertainty — not someone who triages issues to five different specialists and calls it coverage.
“Legal departments don’t have a knowledge problem — they have a forgetting problem”
The real issue isn’t generating analysis, it’s knowing what you already know and when it expires. CounselScope tracks the shelf life of legal knowledge so outdated conclusions don’t get recycled.