Technical Co-founder (CTO) - AI Legal Front Desk

FutureSight Ventures

$160K — $200K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience shipping LLM-powered and voice systems in high-stakes production environments.
  • Proficiency in full-stack development including LLMs, conversational AI, and telephony.
  • Deep understanding of reliability engineering and edge-case management.
  • Background in building scalable managed platforms without increasing engineering headcount.
  • Ideal candidates will have founder or early-stage technical leadership experience, preferably in legal tech or healthcare.
  • Ability to develop custom models for legal and privacy standards.

Responsibilities

  • Establish architecture and reliability for Ava's voice and workflow systems.
  • Construct the internal infrastructure for performance monitoring and optimization of AI.
  • Manage the balance between AI quality and cost-per-call under a fixed pricing model.
  • Act as the technical representative to clients, partners, and investors.
  • Lead the transition from pilot programs to revenue-generating customers and broaden AI functionalities.
  • Recruit and lead the founding engineering team while shaping the company's culture.

Benefits

  • Founder-level equity and decision-making authority.
  • Partnership with the CEO on strategic ventures.
  • Opportunity to shape the technical direction from inception.
  • A role at the intersection of legal tech and AI innovation.
  • Contribute directly to outcomes that impact legal practitioners.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

Solo practitioners and small law firms still lose work the same way: missed calls, slow callbacks, and intake handled between hearings. Hiring is no answer - payroll, training, and turnover are exactly what these firms cannot absorb.

Problem and solution validation are complete. Multiple live pilots are entering production evaluation. The next phase is proving in-production reliability, delivery economics, and scalability. The teams that ship credible AI workers into trust-sensitive verticals in the next 18 months will define the category. We intend to be one of them.
The Venture

BloomLex is a managed AI staffing platform that delivers AI workers as fully-set-up hires - trained, monitored, and continuously improved by our team. Rather than another self-serve SaaS tool, BloomLex operates as a Role-as-a-Service business: lawyers evaluate us on outcomes - time saved, calls answered, consults booked - not configuration effort.

Our first hire, Ava, is an AI Front Desk that answers calls 24/7, captures structured intake, books consultations, and performs outbound callbacks, without creating new operational burden for the lawyer. The roadmap expands from the front desk into adjacent AI staff roles, all delivered through the same managed model.
The Partnership

The CEO co-founder is in place. The customer thesis is validated, design partners are engaged, and live pilots are running. What remains is to bring on the technical co-founder - a partner who will own product and engineering with the same conviction, urgency, and ownership stake.

This is a co-founder role, not a CTO hire. In return for that level of commitment, you receive founder-level equity, founder-level authority with co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy, and a genuine partnership with the CEO on every material decision.
What you'll own

As Co-Founder & CTO, you will write the first lines of production code, set the technical direction, and lead execution end-to-end.
  • Architecture & Reliability - Harden Ava's voice and workflow systems for in-production reliability. Establish core architecture, observability, and audit-trail standards
  • RaaS Delivery Layer - Build the internal infrastructure that lets the team configure, monitor, and optimize AI performance without scaling engineering headcount
  • Unit Economics - Own the trade-offs between AI quality and cost-per-call, and lock in unit economics within the $499/month pricing model
  • Customer & Market - Represent the company in front of lawyers, partners, and investors as the technical voice of the venture
  • Roadmap - Convert pilots into paying customers, expand the AI staff beyond the front desk, and begin a path toward custom and self-hosted models where legal and privacy requirements demand it
  • Team - Recruit and lead the founding engineering team, and establish the cultural foundation of the company
Co-Founder Profile
  • Shipped LLM-powered and voice systems into production environments where incorrect outputs carried real consequences
  • Full-stack confidence across applied LLMs, real-time voice and conversational AI, telephony, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, and secure multi-tenant SaaS
  • Well-formed convictions about reliability engineering, edge-case management, and the trade-offs between AI quality and cost-per-call
  • Experience building managed and service-heavy platforms, with the discipline to scale delivery without scaling engineering headcount
  • Prepared to operate as a principal - including saying "this won't scale" or "this isn't ready" when the integrity of the product requires it
  • Strongly preferred: prior founder or early-stage technical leadership experience; background in legal tech, healthcare, or another trust-sensitive vertical; capability to self-host custom models to meet legal and privacy needs
How to Apply

Please submit your resume, LinkedIn profile, and a brief note on why this venture aligns with your goals as a founder. We will move quickly for the right candidate.

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