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Start Here: Product Engineering at Orbital
A curated guide to how we build AI-powered legal technology
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How We Interview
What to expect when interviewing at Orbital
Principal Talent Lead
Teaching AI to Read Property Boundaries
Building computational geometry systems that parse historical property descriptions
Tech Lead
From Launch to 100 Billion Tokens
A look back at 2025: the year Orbital Copilot went from ambitious experiment to industry milestone
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From Orbital to YC
How AI Engineering at Orbital prepared me to found a YC-backed startup
AI Engineer
Real World, Blind Evals
Finding AI models that work for real estate law
Legal & AI Engineering
My talk for AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 in San Francisco
Buy Now, Maybe Pay Later: Dealing with Prompt-Tax While Staying at the Frontier
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The Road to Autonomy
From Thought to Action: The Rise of AI Agents
AI Engineer
From Reflex to Reason: How AI Learns to Think
The step-by-step guide from Base LLMs to Reasoning Models
AI Engineer
Give your LLM a terminal
Command-line access is the most powerful tool for LLMs
VP of AI
Decoding the Digital Brain
A Glimpse Inside AI’s Mind and What It Might Teach Us About Ourselves
AI Engineer
What is a Legal Engineer?
Follow a day in the life of a commercial property lawyer turned 'Legal Engineer' at Orbital
Legal Engineer
The new AI reality: what's happening now and what's next?
Annual keynote to law firm real estate partners
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How Orbital used Otta to scale hiring with a single-person talent function
We ranked in the top 10% of most loved companies on Otta over the last 12 months
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Teaching my eleven year old’s class about AI
What happens when you’re asked to teach 30 eleven year olds about AI? Our CTO, Andrew Thompson, did just that at his son’s school last month. Here’s what he learnt.
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We built an AI Assistant, Orbital Copilot, that thinks like a real estate lawyer!
It uses the latest agentic GenAI concepts and is accelerating lawyers' work by 70%
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My First Dip into Conference Speaking at JSDayIE
Reflecting on my experience speaking about monorepos and Nx at JSDayIE
Frontend Engineer
Generative AI: Opportunities and risks for property transactions
Annual keynote during #LondonTechWeek
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3 day hackathon with large language models (LLMs)
Six of our talented engineering teams hacked around with GPT-4
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Orbital raises £7.5m in Series A funding
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A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist
Wearing many hats in a rapidly growing startup
Senior Data Scientist
Building software that 'thinks' like a lawyer - Ver 2
Please, won’t someone think of the pets?!
Head of Legal Engineering
Onboarding of a new software engineer
My first 90 days at Orbital
Software Engineer
Flexible working at Orbital
What does 'flexible working' actually look like at our company?
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The journey to continuous deployment
Let the robots do the hard work!
Engineer
Lessons learned upgrading our frontend component library
How to ensure your next upgrade is 10x less expensive
Frontend Engineer
I've had my first ever conference talk in front of 17,000+ people
The process from my original goal to getting selected, preparing thoroughly and finally giving the talk
Frontend Engineer
Inside the Risk Engine's tech stack
A quick overview of our tech stack
Tech Lead - Risk Engine
Full-Stack Data Science at Orbital
Data science requires a diverse skill set. That's a huge challenge, but if you develop that breadth you'll be enormously effective, especially at early-stage startups with big ambitions
Lead Data Scientist
Working at Orbital
A quick look behind the curtain into working at OW
Tech Lead - Commercial Product
Building software that 'thinks' like a lawyer
Codifying real estate legal expertise using data science and software engineering
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