Vulcan Technologies

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On May 1st we released Justinian 2.1.0, the latest version of our platform. This release is built around one principle: match the depth of the model to the difficulty of the work. Routine questions move faster. Complex research gets more attention. Long projects stay coherent. What's new: Reasoning effort controls. Choose Low for quick questions and simple drafting. Very High for difficult research and citation-heavy work. Max for the most complex matters where depth and analytical completeness matter more than speed. Clearer guidance on when to start fresh. Justinian now shows when a conversation is getting long and signals when starting a new chat will likely produce a more careful answer. Better support for large legal records. Long opinions, statutes, regulations, and agency records stay organized during research and drafting, so the source material supports the answer instead of crowding it out. More dependable saved and shared work. Long-running matters, shared conversations, and email-started chats are less likely to lose context or fail to reopen cleanly. Enhanced privacy protections. Additional safeguards keep agency work, user data, and sensitive research materials separated and protected.

This Week in American Law and Regulation Three developments worth understanding from the past seven days. Connecticut's Senate passed a 71-page AI bill covering companion chatbots, AI in employment decisions, content provenance, and frontier model regulation. A single piece of state legislation now spans the entire scope of what most federal proposals attempt in fragments. The states are not waiting. Florida's legislature begins a four-day special session today to consider an AI Bill of Rights that already passed the state Senate in March. The House previously declined to take it up. The Speaker of the House has stated that AI should only be regulated at the federal level. The intra-party fight over preemption is no longer theoretical. It is happening inside one of the largest states in the country. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 837 into law, formally clarifying that AI, algorithms, software, and machines do not qualify as "persons" under state law. A small statute with significant downstream implications. As legal frameworks built for human actors get tested by AI agents that can sign contracts, file documents, and operate semi-autonomously, definitional questions like this become the foundation everything else rests on. States are legislating faster than the federal government can decide whether to override them, and the compliance cost lands on everyone caught in between.

People did not enter public service to spend their days on clerical tasks and spreadsheets. They came to steward the things that actually shape a state: its lakes and rivers, its programs, its statutes, the institutions that govern daily life in their communities. We handle the mundane administrative tasks so you can return to the work that moves the needle for your state and its people.

Every law student in America gets Justinian for free — AI deep research across a legal database that is larger than the LexisNexis and Westlaw databases. We believe the next generation of lawyers deserves the best available tools to interpret and understand the laws. Justinian is already used by government to reshape the laws. If you are enrolled in an American law school, simply go to vulcan.ai/student-access and request access.

Government technology is lagging. While OpenAI and Anthropic unlock new technological frontiers weekly, and the most exciting wave ever of startups reshape industry, the government endures 10-year-old websites and portals. Consequently, government employees do not have the tools they need. And the American taxpayer does not get what they deserve. The Vulcan team is committed to changing this in every state. This mission is crucial for the health of our democracy, and we hope other companies join us.

"Vulcan aims not only to reduce costs and accelerate governance but also to ensure that the public will, as expressed through laws and executive orders, is actually implemented" americanbazaaronline.com/2025/08/15/vul…

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Vulcan Technologies (@vulcantechteam) uses AI to map every law, regulation, and court case in America. The Governor of Virginia signed an executive order requiring all state agencies to use their platform. ycombinator.com/launches/O2B-v… Congrats on the launch, @Tanner_H_Jones & @child_drowning!