Est. 2017 San Antonio, TX

Two disciplines. One office.

01.00 · Practice

Process Mechanics focuses on the parts of legal work that must line up with engineering reality: AI governance and open source strategy.

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AI Governance

Organizations deploying AI systems face increasing regulatory pressure and technical complexity. We help build systematic approaches to risk assessment and compliance, integrated into existing development workflows, not bolted on as compliance theater.

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    Risk frameworks

    EU AI Act and sector-specific regulation mapped to technical controls and evidence.

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    Policy automation

    Open Policy Agent and policy-as-code gates integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

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    Documentation

    Model cards, validation workflows, and evidence collection that scales.

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    Deployment controls

    Model versioning, training-data governance, and release gates.

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Open Source

Open source powers modern software development, but it creates compliance obligations and strategic questions. We have been involved at every level, from drafting licenses to advising on AI model and distributed-system licensing.

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    OSPO design

    Building and auditing Open Source Program Offices: policy, automation, community.

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    License strategy

    Selection, compliance, conflict resolution, and AI-specific licensing questions.

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    Supply chain

    Risk assessment across open-source dependencies and SBOM practice.

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    Community

    Contribution policies, governance documents, and maintainer strategy.