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Product, engineering and artificial intelligence at Orbital Witness

The new AI reality: what's happening now and what's next?
The new AI reality: what's happening now and what's next?
Annual keynote to law firm real estate partners
Andrew Thompson
CTO
How Orbital Witness used Otta to scale hiring with a single-person talent function
How Orbital Witness 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
Andrew Thompson
CTO
Teaching my eleven year old’s class about AI
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.
Andrew Thompson
CTO
We built an AI Assistant, Orbital Copilot, that thinks like a real estate lawyer!
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%
Andrew Thompson
CTO
My First Dip into Conference Speaking at JSDayIE
My First Dip into Conference Speaking at JSDayIE
Reflecting on my experience speaking about monorepos and Nx at JSDayIE
George McCarron
Frontend Engineer
Generative AI: Opportunities and risks for property transactions
Generative AI: Opportunities and risks for property transactions
Annual keynote during #LondonTechWeek
Andrew Thompson
CTO
3 day hackathon with large language models (LLMs)
3 day hackathon with large language models (LLMs)
Six of our talented engineering teams hacked around with GPT-4
Andrew Thompson
CTO
Orbital Witness raises £7.5m in Series A funding
Orbital Witness raises £7.5m in Series A funding
Andrew Thompson
CTO
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist
Wearing many hats in a rapidly growing startup
Henry Maguire
Senior Data Scientist
Building software that 'thinks' like a lawyer - Ver 2
Building software that 'thinks' like a lawyer - Ver 2
Please, won’t someone think of the pets?!
Neill Pemberton
Head of Legal Engineering
Onboarding of a new software engineer
Onboarding of a new software engineer
My first 90 days at Orbital Witness
Dorin Botan
Software Engineer
Flexible working at Orbital Witness
Flexible working at Orbital Witness
What does 'flexible working' actually look like at our company?
Andrew Thompson
CTO
The journey to continuous deployment
The journey to continuous deployment
Let the robots do the hard work!
Steve Doggett
Engineer
Lessons learned upgrading our frontend component library
Lessons learned upgrading our frontend component library
How to ensure your next upgrade is 10x less expensive
Domagoj Vidovic
Frontend Engineer
I've had my first ever conference talk in front of 17,000+ people
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
Domagoj Vidovic
Frontend Engineer
Inside the Risk Engine's tech stack
Inside the Risk Engine's tech stack
A quick overview of our tech stack
Jian Yuan Lee
Tech Lead - Risk Engine
Full-Stack Data Science at Orbital Witness
Full-Stack Data Science at Orbital Witness
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
Matt Westcott
Lead Data Scientist
Working at Orbital Witness
Working at Orbital Witness
A quick look behind the curtain into working at OW
Antony McKane
Tech Lead - Commercial Product
Building software that 'thinks' like a lawyer
Building software that 'thinks' like a lawyer
Codifying real estate legal expertise using data science and software engineering
Andrew Thompson
CTO