A small site for keeping notes and ideas.
Joel Seignior.
Notes on knowledge work, law, and AI tooling.
I work at the intersection of commercial law and major-project delivery. The slow thread running through the writing here is what it takes to do that work well at a moment when the tooling is moving faster than our work environment.
Writing.
essays and field notes
Tokenomics: Why the Cost of Legal AI Is Quietly Rising.
For two years the question was “can it do the work?” In 2026 a second question has caught up: what does the work cost to run?
Keep your reference knowledge in flat Markdown.
A worked example from Victorian construction law — on what makes a portable reference pack genuinely portable, and the discipline plain text imposes.
About.
the short version
I'm Commercial & Legal Director at VIDA Roads, with a background spanning private practice, the University of Melbourne, and major-project delivery.
The thread running through what I write here is knowledge work in commercial and legal practice, and what the AI tooling cycle has to do with it. Risk, claims and disputes; the documents and reference layers that hold a project together; and why portable, plain-text artefacts tend to age better than vendor workflows.
If you want to get in touch about law, writing, or AI tooling, email is best.