Christian Brown
Head of Product | Legal Knowledge Engineer | CLM + Contract AI
About
I lead product at Irys, where we're building the unified AI platform for legal - replacing the patchwork of disconnected tools that legal teams have been forced to work around for years.
Additionally, I’m the founder of Code + Counsel where over the last 3 years my wife/business partner and I have helped firms and legal tech startups integrate AI, LLMs, and business intelligence into their legal operations.
I got here by spending 13+ years on both sides of the problem. I practiced as a litigator at an AmLaw 250 firm, managed operations and risk at a Fortune 500 bank, and directed legal due diligence and BI strategy for $60B+ in mortgage assets at a leading fintech. Along the way, I built data pipelines, architected LLM-driven decisioning engines, and deployed custom ML/AI systems not as a side project, but as the core of how I approached legal operations.
Prior to working with Irys I was a senior legal engineer for Agiloft, where I trained and evaluated large language models for contract intelligence, designed AI-powered CLM features grounded in RAG and context engineering, and served as the bridge between product, engineering, and the legal professionals the platform was built for. That work deepened my understanding of what it takes to build agentic AI that actually performs in legal workflows in production.
Practice areas
- Bankruptcy > Foreclosure
- Litigation & Disputes > Real Estate Lit
- Real Estate & Dev > Residential Leasing
- Real Estate & Dev > Residential Mortgages
- Real Estate & Dev > Real Estate Sales
- Real Estate & Dev > Escrow Claims
- Technology Law > AI Law
Featured clients
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.
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.
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.
Experience
Founding Member
HeyCounsel
Jan 2024 – Present
Senior Legal Knowledge Engineer
Agiloft
Feb 2025 – Present
Founder
Code and Counsel
Nov 2023 – Present
J.D.
Baylor University School of Law
2011
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Texas A&M University
2008
