{"id":155716,"date":"2026-07-01T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/01\/adventures-in-legal-tech-why-you-need-structured-intelligence-before-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:36:31","slug":"adventures-in-legal-tech-why-you-need-structured-intelligence-before-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/01\/adventures-in-legal-tech-why-you-need-structured-intelligence-before-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adventures In Legal Tech\u2019: Why You Need Structured Intelligence Before Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/adventuresinlegaltech-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1153519\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legal professionals are drowning in complexity. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, the tools used to manage this complexity \u2014 PowerPoint, spreadsheets, static diagrams \u2014 haven\u2019t meaningfully evolved in decades. That\u2019s where the concept of structural intelligence comes in.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>Adventures in Legal Tech<\/em>, host Jared Correia sits down with Tim Follett, CEO and co-founder of StructureFlow, to unpack one of the most overlooked yet critical challenges in legal work: structural complexity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Problem With Traditional Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traditional diagramming tools treat visuals as static outputs. A box is just a box. A line is just a line. Here, Follet explains how these ideas are no longer true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Enter Structural Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Structural intelligence transforms diagrams into dynamic systems that create a powerful bridge between human cognition and machine processing, which Follet says is part of \u201cthe heart of what we do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Hear the Full Conversations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curious to learn more? Check out this episode below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/adventures-in-legal-tech-why-you-need-structured-intelligence-before-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Adventures In Legal Tech\u2019: Why You Need Structured Intelligence Before Artificial Intelligence<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/adventuresinlegaltech-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1153519\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legal professionals are drowning in complexity. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, the tools used to manage this complexity \u2014 PowerPoint, spreadsheets, static diagrams \u2014 haven\u2019t meaningfully evolved in decades. That\u2019s where the concept of structural intelligence comes in.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>Adventures in Legal Tech<\/em>, host Jared Correia sits down with Tim Follett, CEO and co-founder of StructureFlow, to unpack one of the most overlooked yet critical challenges in legal work: structural complexity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Problem With Traditional Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traditional diagramming tools treat visuals as static outputs. A box is just a box. A line is just a line. Here, Follet explains how these ideas are no longer true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QdJyxYku_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Enter Structural Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Structural intelligence transforms diagrams into dynamic systems that create a powerful bridge between human cognition and machine processing, which Follet says is part of \u201cthe heart of what we do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffbKhNzPN5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Hear the Full Conversations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curious to learn more? Check out this episode below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Mz8uE9YJZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal professionals are drowning in complexity. Yet, the tools used to manage this complexity \u2014 PowerPoint, spreadsheets, static diagrams \u2014 haven\u2019t meaningfully evolved in decades. That\u2019s where the concept of structural intelligence comes in. In this episode of Adventures in Legal Tech, host Jared Correia sits down with Tim Follett, CEO and co-founder of StructureFlow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155702,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adventuresinlegaltech-1024x576-gjDYRw.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155716","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=155716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}