Claude-native systems for legal, defense, and compliance teams.
Built by an attorney who also ships production AI infrastructure — not a lawyer who talks about AI, and not an engineer who talks about law.
The combination is rare for a reason. It's finally the one that matters.
Enterprise AI adoption is moving out of pilots and into production — fastest in regulated environments where the legal, ethical, and operational frameworks have to hold together from day one. Law firms are partnering directly with frontier labs. Defense acquisitions are rewriting the rules for autonomous systems. Compliance teams are being asked to operate Claude-native workflows their counsel didn't draft and their vendors can't explain.
Unify Theory exists because the practitioners who can design for that environment — people who are credentialed in the law, published on the technology, and actually shipping production AI systems — can be counted on one hand. I'm one of them. The practice provides architecture, implementation, and expert guidance for the teams that need all three held in one mind.
Three ways to work together.
Advisory
For teams evaluating Claude or designing AI workflows. Strategy review, architecture guidance, vendor-selection support, and the risk and governance framework that has to wrap around the technology. Typically one to four hours per month on a standing retainer, with ad-hoc availability in between.
Implementation
Hands-on Claude SDK build-outs, custom Model Context Protocol servers, agent orchestration, and integration with your existing legal-tech, compliance, or enterprise stack. I design and build the system; your team operates it. Deliverables are specified before we start — no scope creep, no vendor lock-in.
Expert engagements
Testimony, depositions, amicus brief contribution, and published-author commentary for matters involving autonomous systems, AI in warfare, cyber operations, law of armed conflict, or emerging-technology policy. Background in peer-reviewed scholarship and two decades of military legal practice; current as an operator.
Credentialed in the exact two domains that are converging.
Academic & Military
- Retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps 2005 – 2025 · 20 years
- Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, V Corps 2023 – 2025
- Chief of Military Justice, III Corps 2021 – 2023
- Military Professor + Associate Director, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, U.S. Naval War College 2019 – 2021
- Managing Editor, International Law Studies 2020 – 2021
Selected Publications
- Maintaining Command and Control (C2) of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Southwestern Journal of International Law, Vol. 27, 2021 (with John Cherry)
- Responding to Hostile Cyber Operations: The "In-Kind" Option International Law Studies, Vol. 97, 2021 (with Michael N. Schmitt)
- Responding to Proxy Cyber Operations under International Law Cyber Defense Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, Fall 2021 (with Michael N. Schmitt)
- The Rules of the Game: Great Power Competition and International Law Joint Force Quarterly 106, 3rd Quarter 2022
- Additional pieces in Lawfare, Just Security, and Articles of War.
I operate the architecture I sell.
Every consulting engagement draws on the same patterns I've had to build, break, and rebuild running real commerce, travel, and content operations under real load. When I recommend an architecture, I'm telling you what I've already learned the hard way — not what sounds good in a slide.
Tell me what you're trying to build.
If your team is evaluating Claude, designing an AI-native workflow in a regulated domain, or needs expert input on autonomous systems, cyber operations, or the law of armed conflict — I'd like to hear from you. Short inquiries welcome. Engagement pricing is set after a scoping conversation and aligns with leading expert networks.