Field notes
Notes on legal billing, OCG compliance, and document AI.
Practical writing from Bytesicht on where AI earns its place in document-heavy legal and finance work — and where it does not.
The first pieces are publishing soon. Here is what is on the list.
Legal billing & OCG
Outside Counsel Guidelines, e-billing rejections, LEDES, block billing, and the rules that quietly cost firms revenue.
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Why e-billing rejections happen — and how to catch them before submission
Coming soon02
Reading Outside Counsel Guidelines like a rule engine
Coming soon03
Block billing: what counts, and how to split it cleanly
Coming soon04
LEDES 1998B in plain English for billing teams
Coming soonDocument AI & knowledge
Source-cited retrieval, enforced citations, process extraction, and turning documents into knowledge AI can use.
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Why a company brain beats a chatbot on your documents
Coming soon02
Citations or it didn't happen: grounding answers in sources
Coming soon03
Turning a policy PDF into a process map
Coming soon04
When AI should refuse to answer
Coming soonBuilding it safely
Human review, private deployment, evaluation, and the decision to not automate when the case is weak.
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Human review is the control layer, not a compromise
Coming soon02
What private deployment actually means for sensitive data
Coming soon03
Evaluating document AI: citation coverage and retrieval quality
Coming soon04
How to decide whether a workflow is ready to automate
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