Editorial
Writing from the Blackflake team on AI agent architecture, services-as-software, and the category shift hitting regulated professional services. Short pieces for people who read the whole thing.
— Publishing cadence: one deep piece per month, 15th of the month. Scheduled posts are visible below with their publish dates; the full text appears on the day.
A retrospective on six months of Legal AI running on real solicitor matters. The failure-mode patterns we saw, what we tuned, and why wrappers still don't compete.
— 7 min read · by Bartek Kubas, founder-architect
The EU regulatory wave — CSRD, AI Act, NIS2 — requires tens of thousands of companies to produce structured reports they've never written. Big 4 capacity is saturated. This is where services-as-software enters.
— 7 min read · Blackflake Editorial
UK R&D tax relief is roughly £7.5B/year in approved relief. Consultancies take 15–30% success fees to prepare claims. The entire industry is vulnerable to an AI that drafts inspectable, defensible claims at a fraction of the cost.
— 7 min read · by Bartek Kubas, founder-architect
Public procurement is the largest structured-document market in the world. The bid-writing process has barely changed in 30 years. A straightforward architectural question: why.
— 7 min read · Blackflake Editorial
Polish medical vocabulary, sentence structure, and regulatory context diverge from English in ways that break off-the-shelf clinical NLP. Here's what actually has to be re-built.
— 7 min read · by Bartek Kubas, founder-architect
In early 2026 we prepared a complete FENG Ścieżka SMART application through our own platform. We chose not to submit. The system we built to prepare it is now GrantAI — Pillar 04 of Blackflake.
— 6 min read · by Bartek Kubas, founder-architect
A worked example from Polish commercial litigation — what happens to associate hours, gross margin, and the partner-associate ratio when a mid-sized law firm deploys an AI vertical.
— 7 min read · by Blackflake Editorial
Since GPT-4 shipped, thousands of companies wrapped a foundation model and called it a platform. When the model improves, the wrapper stays the same. When the model changes hands, the wrapper breaks. Here is the argument for a different architecture.
— 6 min read · by Bartek Kubas, founder-architect