Demos > memos. Watch a lawyer save her company
Five fires. One GC. AI is the force multiplier.
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This Claude Code demo video starts with a highlight reel. To see the full demo, jump to the 1:45 mark.
I have a confession: I founded a company.
It’s in big legal trouble.
Globex Travel helps you travel better, powered by agentic AI. You pick Barcelona for April 1, five nights, and it books you the best flights at the lowest price, all autonomously.
If you hit weather delays, Globex re-routes you so you maximize your time in the sun, not calling airlines.
But problems have piled up. The AI re-routing model doesn’t help stranded passengers find better flights. Instead, it misfires, dumping travelers at the wrong airports. Barcelona turns into… Buffalo.
Then the AI pricing engine starts showing stale fares. Passengers approve $750, then AI charges them $2,500.
Now a federal regulator is investigating. Passengers are filing a class action. A patent troll claims our core technology infringes. We’re launching an enterprise product whose commitments could contradict what we told the regulator.
And the Financial Times is publishing an exposé in 48 hours. It could tank the company.
You’re the GC. How do you step up?
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Okay, Globex is 100% made up, a teaching demo inspired by Hank Scorpio’s Globex Corporation from the Simpsons. All documents are fictional, a storyline generated by Claude, involving no real clients or privilege. Five crises, ~70 files, 16 characters. You can download the full sandbox to test your own AI agent. Instructions at the bottom of this post.
Your judgment, multiplied
In the demo, the GC moves five matters forward at once.
Does AI replace her? No. Does she offload her judgment? No.
AI gives her scale. Her judgment gives AI direction.
In othe words, the GC directs. AI executes.
AI is her force multiplier, delivering work product where she actually works: seven deliverables, showing up across Gmail, slides, Google Docs, Sheets and Calendar.
The GC told AI where to look, what to prioritize and what to build. Every output was a starting point, not a finished product. She could push back, add facts or redirect at any step.
AI doesn’t set strategy. AI can read every file in every matter folder. What it cannot do is decide to call the reporter before the regulator because the narrative is the bigger fire, or tell the CEO that her instinct to fight publicly will blow up the settlement. Those are judgment calls: made under pressure, shaped by years of battle-tested experience.
AI makes an excellent lawyer even more formidable.
Directing AI is like directing associates, and building that instinct is what the AI skill stack is all about.
AI shows up where you work
I wrote about the plumbing problem last month: AI nails the thinking but can’t send an email.
This demo is what it looks like when the plumbing works.
AI also reads across all five matters at once, catching patterns and contradictions that one person juggling five crises would miss.
This demo runs on Google Workspace because that’s where I work every day. The principles here hold for any AI you set up.
Here’s what AI generated:
Mapped a risk-priority heatmap across all five matters, calibrating which fires she must fight first
Drafted a cease-and-desist response in Gmail for outside counsel
Built a 48-hour crisis playbook into a slide deck
Outlined a regulatory response in Google Docs
Stress-tested her own arguments against her files, surfacing counter-arguments to sharpen her positions
Scheduled a CEO briefing on Google Calendar
Assembled a deposition prep matrix in Google Sheets
How to direct AI agents
What made this work wasn’t the AI’s intelligence but the structure around it: organized files, clear cross-references and a system that tells the AI where to look. The intuition to direct AI is the skill that matters.
Over a century ago, Cravath built a system where one partner could direct six associates to handle America’s booming corporate work. The partner’s job wasn’t just doing the work. It was knowing which work mattered: bringing judgment to a complex problem and pointing talented people at it. This is that same leverage, built with AI agents instead of headcount.
Oh, and this is the worst that this technology will ever be.
The bootcamps get hands-on in the terminal, building the instincts to direct thinking machines. Small group, no slides, subscriber-only.
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Try the sandbox yourself
The Globex sandbox exists so you can play-test your AI agent without risking real data. The full Globex sandbox is on GitHub: https://github.com/exl-lab/globex-sandbox
Download it and directly run Claude from the globex-sandbox/ folder in the terminal. Run the built-in walkthrough command /start-sandbox. It guides you through the scenario step by step. No setup beyond that.
This is all stuff I go over in my AI bootcamps for lawyers. Take it for a spin and let me know how your AI handles five legal fires.