From law practice to AI governance

From law to software

I hold a law degree and practiced for years — family law, civil litigation, tenancy — while computing kept pulling from the other side of the desk.

In 2012 that pull won its first big argument: I built the first app to put Mexico City's earthquake alert on phones, replicating the official seismic warning over push notifications — our own servers, and an audience that grew to roughly 166,000 followers on the alert's account. The story of how it worked inside is this blog's founding essay.

Then came years of digital transformation consulting for law firms — the origin of my LegalTech specialization — until I left litigation entirely.

What I'm building

Today I run Strange Days Tech and I'm building StrayMark: governance and accountability for AI-assisted engineering, grounded in the frameworks that are starting to define the field — ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF.

The two lives converge here. Law taught me that rules are only as good as their enforcement records; software taught me that systems fail in the gaps nobody wrote down. AI governance is both problems at once — which is why I find it the most interesting problem available.

Credentials

• Law degree; licensed attorney in Mexico (professional license 7004760).
• Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate.
• Specialist in LegalTech and digital transformation (UNIR).
• Computer Systems Engineering studies completed at UNIR México; degree certification in process.

Elsewhere

I'm on the Fediverse at hachyderm.io/@montfort and mastodon.social/@montfort, and on GitHub. In Spanish, my professional page is montfort.consulting.

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