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Start Here: Product Engineering at Orbital
Start Here: Product Engineering at Orbital
A curated guide to how we build AI-powered legal technology
Andrew Thompson
CTO
How Our Own Product Saved Me Over £10,000
How Our Own Product Saved Me Over £10,000
Using Orbital Copilot to challenge a Section 146 notice
Conrad Swift
Principal Talent Lead
I'm a Product Manager and I Ship Code to Production
I'm a Product Manager and I Ship Code to Production
How vibe coding prototypes and shipping changes sharpened my product thinking
Anna Mulry
AI Product Manager
Everyone Ships Code Now
Everyone Ships Code Now
How Orbital is adapting to the age of agentic coding
Andrew Thompson
CTO
Reflections on Building AI for Real Estate Legal
Reflections on Building AI for Real Estate Legal
On data moats, visual reasoning, and shipping in a trust-heavy domain
Andrew Thompson
CTO
Building Your SRE Agent Practice
Building Your SRE Agent Practice
Practical frameworks for working with AI coding assistants
Graham Russell
Site Reliability Engineer
AI as a Force Multiplier for Small Platform Teams
AI as a Force Multiplier for Small Platform Teams
How AI coding assistants amplify engineering judgment
Graham Russell
Site Reliability Engineer
We've Raised $60M to Automate Real Estate Law With AI
We've Raised $60M to Automate Real Estate Law With AI
Announcing our Series B fundraise led by Brighton Park Capital
Andrew Thompson
CTO
A Day in the Life: US Legal Engineer at Orbital
A Day in the Life: US Legal Engineer at Orbital
Follow a day in the life of a former real estate attorney turned 'Legal Engineer' at Orbital's New York office
Tessa Worrell
US Legal Engineer
Our Product Engineering Mantras
Our Product Engineering Mantras
The principles that guide how we build at Orbital
Andrew Thompson
CTO
How We Interview
How We Interview
What to expect when interviewing at Orbital
Conrad Swift
Principal Talent Lead
Teaching AI to Read Property Boundaries
Teaching AI to Read Property Boundaries
Building computational geometry systems that parse historical property descriptions
Andrei Vasilcoi
Tech Lead
From Launch to 100 Billion Tokens
From Launch to 100 Billion Tokens
A look back at 2025: the year Orbital Copilot went from ambitious experiment to industry milestone
Andrew Thompson
CTO
From Orbital to YC
From Orbital to YC
How AI Engineering at Orbital prepared me to found a YC-backed startup
Gus Levinson
AI Engineer
Real World, Blind Evals
Real World, Blind Evals
Finding AI models that work for real estate law
Ben Sainsbury & Gus Levinson
Legal & AI Engineering
My talk for AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 in San Francisco
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
Andrew Thompson
CTO
The Road to Autonomy
The Road to Autonomy
From Thought to Action: The Rise of AI Agents
Gus Levinson
AI Engineer
From Reflex to Reason: How AI Learns to Think
From Reflex to Reason: How AI Learns to Think
The step-by-step guide from Base LLMs to Reasoning Models
Gus Levinson
AI Engineer
Give Your LLM a Terminal
Give Your LLM a Terminal
Command-line access is the most powerful tool for LLMs
Matt Westcott
VP of AI
Decoding the Digital Brain
Decoding the Digital Brain
A Glimpse Inside AI’s Mind and What It Might Teach Us About Ourselves
Gus Levinson
AI Engineer
What is a Legal Engineer?
What is a Legal Engineer?
Follow a day in the life of a commercial property lawyer turned 'Legal Engineer' at Orbital's UK office
Tassneem Attia
UK Legal Engineer