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July 16, 2026

Counsel Stack Connecting Legal Citator to Claude for Advanced AI-Powered Research

Counsel Stack announced its next advancement in AI-assisted legal research: the successful integration of its proprietary citator with Claude. This development marks a step forward in how legal professionals can leverage large language models (LLMs) to perform complex, grounded legal research and litigation workflows. By connecting Counsel Stack’s citator to Claude, the platform now enables the AI to research with the precision of a lawyer. The integration allows Claude to access and navigate Counsel Stack’s massive 200-million-edge citation graph, providing users with answers backed by direct, verifiable links to legal sources. "We connected Counsel Stack's citator to Claude. It researches like a lawyer, based on our prompting, and provides answers with links. Counsel Stack helps Claude find relevant legal sources and crawl around our 200m edge citation graph," said Von Wooding, CEO of Counsel Stack. This integration goes beyond simple search queries. It is designed to support sophisticated litigation workflows, including editing and redlining legal briefs, all while remaining grounded in curated, high-quality legal data. The system currently operates via a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, utilizing a robust 250GB dataset that includes over 50 million citations, ranging from federal statutes and regulations to state constitutions and agency enforcement actions. The company is also exploring the future of local, private legal AI. Counsel Stack has successfully tested the system with 27-billion-parameter local LLMs, demonstrating that high-performance legal research can be achieved without relying on third-party cloud services. "In the very near future you will be able to run a ~120 IQ LLM on your own machine, calling on local legal data that is updated daily from an oracle, and can answer most legal questions without connecting to a third party service," Wooding added. While the current primary bottlenecks for local deployment remain hardware-related—specifically the cost of vRAM and token throughput—Counsel Stack is actively optimizing its architecture to overcome these challenges. The company is also preparing to announce further integrations, including a connection to the Mike OSS front end, which is purpose-built for legal applications. This development positions Counsel Stack at the forefront of the "private AI" movement in law, offering firms the ability to maintain data sovereignty while utilizing cutting-edge research tools. As the legal industry continues to grapple with the balance between AI efficiency and data security, Counsel Stack’s approach offers a compelling path forward. Counsel Stack provides advanced legal technology infrastructure, specializing in citation graphs and AI-driven research tools designed to empower legal professionals with accurate, grounded, and efficient workflows. It is a portfolio company of Brown and White Ventures.

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How Bounce Imaging Makes The Difference

Frontliners, whether soldiers, police officers, firefighters, or others, enter dangerous, unknown spaces every day. Robots and drones, the obvious answer, fail in confined spaces. They have short battery lives, require training to operate, are difficult to carry, and often physically cannot fit through doorways or into tunnels. By the time one is deployed, the situation has changed. The result is that personnel go in blind. It can cost lives. Bounce Imaging's throwable camera solves this with a device that deploys in under two seconds with zero training. Its patented panoramic stitching technology is 1,000 times more efficient than conventional methods, meaning it runs on a long-lasting battery, does not overheat, and transmits stable video even while spinning through the air. The operator sees everything. Nobody has to guess. Brown and White Ventures announced this month Boucne Imagaing is one of its newest portfolio companies. Learn more at: https://bounceimaging.com

July 13, 2026

Counsel Stack Invited To '26 ILTACON in Nashville

Founder Von Wooding will take Counsel Stack to the International Legal Technology Association in Nashville, TN August 23rd. Wooding's Pittsburgh-based startup will be one of two-dozen legal AI tech companies available to a giant concentration of technology decision-makers. Expected attendees include law firm tech leaders, including CIOs, CTOs and IT directors from small firms to G200 firms. "We're excited to be one of the few companies invited to participate," Wooding said. "It means firms and IT operators are taking notice of Counsel Stack." Legal operations managers, litigation support professionals and knowledge managers are among the operational experts attending ILTACON. In-house counsel and corporate tech managers represent corporate legal departments who will arrive ready to take the next step in Nashville. ILTACON is a prime environment for people who evaluate and deploy legal software. Firms like Counsel Stack don't just meet lawyers, they interact directly with the IT and operations leaders who lead implementation and control budgets. ILTA features a dedicated ILTA Startup Hub, offering emerging companies a highly affordable, designated space in the exhibit hall designed specifically for new disruptors to get noticed. It's where conference attendees will find Counsel Stack. Wooding appreciates the peer-driven interaction of ILTACON and believes it'll be a most efficient effort to grow Counsel Stack's partner base. "You won't find many places like it where you can validate your product-market fit. We'll hear pain points directly from those who practice law and those who lead the IT operations of firms," Wooding said. Counsel Stack is a portfolio company of Brown and White Ventures.

June 26, 2026

Students Sprint Into Summer Internship Program

For the 10th semester, Brown and White Ventures hosted student interns to observe and participate in the fund's venture capital mission. Matthew Wilson, St. Bonaventure University, stopped by the fund's Fairport offices in June to visit with Neil Bommele and Jim Aroune. Wilson, a Brighton resident and junior finance major, joined Michael Sears, a 2026 St. Bonaventure graduate and MBA student, and Christian Smith, a sophomore sports marketing major at SBU, in the latest class of fund interns. Interns in this program participate in the fund's due diligence process, take part in fund and startup pitch calls and develop content for the fund's communication initiatives.

June 19, 2026

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