Circuits, a Microskills Platform.
Circuits is a peer-to-peer microskills marketplace where lawyers teach each other the tangible craft of lawyering. Behind the scenes, the Circuits AI captures these moments of human-to-human knowledge transfer and turns them into reusable knowledge assets.
By the end of 2026, nearly every law firm in the AmLaw 100 will be running the same AI software producing very similar legal work. The answer is the one thing AI can't commoditize: the legal craft of a firm's lawyers. Judgment. Institutional knowledge. Experience. The 5% of expertise that drives 95% of outcomes.
The Circuits AI prepares the learner beforehand with context and questions, then captures key insights afterward as practical reference tools a learner can use on the job. What lives in one lawyer's head becomes usable across the firm.
Lawyers browse microskills and book a 30-minute session with a colleague. Teachers (partners, counsel, associates, etc.) set one weekly slot, and Circuits handles the rest.
Most firms make L&D and tech decisions based on what they think their lawyers need. Circuits surfaces what they actually need, in real time, as a byproduct of how the marketplace works. As session data accumulates, it builds a living map of expertise inside the firm: who's taught what, who's learned what, who to ask when a hard question comes up.
Circuits is a standalone venture developed by Pneumatic, my innovation studio. Circuits originated as part of an engagement with a real estate practice group at a large law firm that had identified a real problem. AI tools were absorbing the low-level tasks that used to train junior lawyers, and the firm was facing a future with not enough trained juniors in the pipeline.
I ran the work from start to finish, beginning with the initial design research with partners and associates to better understand how the erosion of the traditional legal apprenticeship model was impacting an AmLaw 100 practice group.
Once we landed on the idea for the two-sided marketplace, we piloted the idea with a rudimentary Excel spreadsheet and about 20 lawyers who enthusiastically agreed to participate. Six weeks later, participation in the pilot exceeded all expectations and I decided to build a proper working software platform.
I built Circuits from scratch with Claude Code, including a Supabase backend, Vercel hosting, full front-end design, and with authentication and scheduling features architected around the security and IT constraints of large law firms.
A live, working product, which will be piloted with a handful of law firm practice groups. I'm currently working to integrate more AI capture features into Circuits. We are looking to expand the platform to include law firm alumni and subject matter experts from various industries (finance, real estate, pharma, etc.)
Circuits is live at circuits.pneu.ai.
