{"id":131730,"date":"2025-08-21T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/21\/guest-post-ken-crutchfield-on-how-legal-ai-innovators-can-get-first-mover-advantage-on-the-next-big-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:22:34","slug":"guest-post-ken-crutchfield-on-how-legal-ai-innovators-can-get-first-mover-advantage-on-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/21\/guest-post-ken-crutchfield-on-how-legal-ai-innovators-can-get-first-mover-advantage-on-the-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on How Legal AI Innovators Can Get First-Mover Advantage On the Next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

First movers in legal tech often win the day, says Ken Crutchfield, but without also anticipating what\u2019s ahead, an early move can be quickly outmoded. This is particularly true given the pace of development of major AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and others. But what if an AI innovator could know \u2014 or [\u2026]<\/p>\n

First movers in legal tech often win the day, says Ken Crutchfield, but without also anticipating what\u2019s ahead, an early move can be quickly outmoded.<\/p>\n

This is particularly true given the pace of development of major AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and others.<\/p>\n

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Ken Crutchfield<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But what if an AI innovator could know \u2014 or at least better anticipate \u2014 what\u2019s on the roadmap of OpenAI or these other companies?<\/p>\n

In his latest column for LawNext, What if Legal Innovators Knew OpenAI\u2019s Product Roadmap?<\/a>,\u00a0Crutchfield tackles this question, providing predictions on what is likely to be coming down the pike over the next two years, and offering tips on how to brainstorm and plan for what\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n

Crutchfield is principal of\u00a0Spring Forward Consulting<\/a>\u00a0and has been an executive at LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters and most recently Wolters Kluwer, where he was vice president and general manager of legal markets for Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.<\/p>\n

Read his\u00a0full post on LawNext<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First movers in legal tech often win the day, says Ken Crutchfield, but without also anticipating what\u2019s ahead, an early move can be quickly outmoded. This is particularly true given the pace of development of major AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and others. But what if an AI innovator could know \u2014 or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawsite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OpenAI-ProductRoadmap-FeaturedImage-1024x576-7qGQXD.png?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}