Christian Brown

About

I’m a Senior Legal Knowledge Engineer at Agiloft (CLM) and the Founder of Code & Counsel, where I help law firms and startups integrate AI/ML, LLMs, and business intelligence (BI) into their legal operations. Over 13+ years, I’ve built a unique career at the intersection of law, fintech, and technology. At a leading residential mortgage fintech, I directed legal due diligence and risk for $60B+ in assets while building out a business intelligence and MLOps platform. I designed data pipelines with SQL and Power BI, architected LLM-driven decisioning engines, and oversaw the integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence into asset management and compliance. As Managing Director and In-House Counsel, I founded the company’s BI division and led R&D into large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent-based automation—bridging executive decision-making with technical implementation. Before that, as Senior Director in Asset Management, I deployed a custom ML/AI system for $20B in mortgage assets, combining deep legal expertise with scalable engineering solutions. Earlier in my career, I practiced as a consumer finance associate at an AmLaw 250 firm and as a Vice President at a Fortune 500 bank, experiences that ground my technology leadership in the realities of regulation, litigation, and client advocacy. With recognized expertise in legal engineering, prompt engineering, A/B testing, AI governance, CLM solutions, and legal automation, I now focus on helping attorneys and legal professionals translate their knowledge into AI-enabled workflows that are technically sophisticated, reliable, and aligned with real legal practice.

Practice Areas

Services

• Legal AI tool analysis & recommendations

  We provide a focused, curated information service to kick-start your AI journey, helping you sift through the noise to identify actionable insights and opportunities including state of AI overview, legal AI tool, testing & analysis, custom personalized AI-powered and GPTs.
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• Fractional Chief Artificial Intelligence officer subscription

  Empower your law firm with our Fractional Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO) subscription, designed to integration senior-level AI strategy and oversight into your legal operations without the full-time cost of an AI executive. Services include: AI strategy development, roadmap development, systems & infrastructure assessment, data & process organization, proof of concept, integration and scaling, executive training, business intel.
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• Legal Engineering & Analytics Support

  At Code & Counsel, we offer comprehensive support in legal engineering and analytics, ensuring that your firm's transition into AI is both seamless and strategically advantageous. Services include: operations process & expertise, data source identification, proof of concept and design development, A/B testing & qualitative feedback analytics and data visualization.
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Work

• 
  Founding Member

  HeyCounsel

  Jan 2024 - Present
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  Senior Legal Knowledge Engineer

  Agiloft

  Feb 2025 - Present
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  Founder

  Code and Counsel

  Nov 2023 - Present

Education

• Baylor University School of Law
  J.D. • 2011
• Texas A&M University
  Bachelor of Arts, Psychology • 2008