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Forum Ventures

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Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Forum Ventures is a founder-first venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund committed to building successful B2B SaaS companies. They engage with startups from inception, providing a unique support system by becoming an integral part of the founding team. Their expertise lies in AI-driven startup development, with a focus on early go-to-market strategies and fundraising. By leveraging a deep network and years of experience, Forum Ventures helps early-stage founders achieve significant traction and secure substantial funding. They provide a robust community of over 900 B2B SaaS founders, offering unparalleled support and resources to navigate the entrepreneurial journey from zero to one.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Architect the end-to-end technology stack for the Shepherd platform (LLM infrastructure, workflow engine, database design, API integrations (Slack, Docusign, etc). • Establish engineering best practices, technical roadmap, and long-term architecture decisions. • Build the foundation for a secure, compliant system that meets startup and enterprise legal standards. • Own the evaluation, fine-tuning, and deployment of LLMs for contract analysis, summarization, redlining, and risk scoring. • Build our core features: AI contract review and redlines, context-aware AI, smart drafting and document automation, workflow automation, legal hub for requests, docs, alerts, and lawyer interaction. • Design human-in-the-loop systems that blend AI speed with attorney validation. • Translate ambiguous legal workflows into clean, reliable, repeatable technical systems. • Work directly with early customers to validate and iterate on features in real time. • Set up infrastructure that meets SOC-2 and privacy standards. • Implement secure document storage, access controls, role-based permissions, and audit trails. • Ensure ethical, compliant, and trustworthy use of AI models across the platform. • Hire and lead a world-class engineering team as we scale (frontend, backend, ML/AI).

🎯 Requirements

• 6–12+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer or technical founder (AI/ML or workflow-heavy SaaS strongly preferred). • Deep experience building production AI systems (LLM fine-tuning, embeddings, RAG, evaluation). • Strong product instincts with a bias toward shipping quickly and iterating. • Experience designing secure, scalable architectures for B2B or workflow products. • Comfortable in ambiguity: able to turn undefined problems into structured, elegant solutions. • Entrepreneurial DNA- you want to build, own, and scale something from the ground up. • Bonus: experience with legal tech, fintech, compliance systems, or other highly regulated verticals.

🏖️ Benefits

• Ground-Floor Equity: Ground-floor opportunity to build a generational company redefining legal infrastructure. • Category Creation: Help build the first AI-native hybrid law firm + SaaS platform for startups. • Technical Challenge: Blend LLMs, data, automation, and legal reasoning into one seamless workflow engine. • Massive Market: Startups and SMBs spend $25B+ per year on legal- and the shift toward automation is accelerating. • Mission-Driven Team: Work alongside founders building a more accessible, modern, and scalable legal system.