Paul A. Jones, Jr.

Unit tests that read like court cases.

“Incident on 3/15/2018. Discovery on 11/10/2021. Filing deadline computed from discovery.”

Code, meet narrative.

Most legal tech apps give you a result. Mine gives you a timeline, reasoning, and the law that backs it—in a single shot.

Imagine running a single calculation and automatically saving:

Inputs,
Legal basis,
Human-readable reasoning,
Expiry status, and
Replay metadata.

That’s what it means to think like a platform, not just an app.

🚨 When you capture the reasoning, not just the result, you turn a deadline calculator into a legal timeline engine.

What Event Tolling Taught Me About Data Integrity One of the more interesting features I recently built into a legal software application was support for event tolling—a process used to pause countdown timers in legal workflows when certain condit…

If your application depends on humans remembering to do something critical, your system is already broken.

Here's why -> shorturl.at/r6WJ5

🚀 Now that search criteria + deadlines can be flattened to JSON, I can see integrators piping them in + pulling results out. A true blackbox engine. Fully automatable. Fully billable. #LegalTech #APIEconomy #SaaS

🔍 Tidied up data flows today — moved calculated deadlines where they belong, tightened DB logic, and nailed persistence across the stack. Feeling good about the foundation for reliable, auditable legal timelines. Onward! #LawTech #CodeLife #DevProgress

💡 Building software that’s not just a product but also a gateway to consulting opportunities? That’s next-level strategy. Excited to grow recurring revenue and meaningful client partnerships through real-world problem solving. #SaaS #Consulting #Entrepreneurship

The Tea App Fiasco: Data Breach, Public Shaming, and a Culture on Fire 72,000 identities exposed—and the irony runs deep. There’s something darkly poetic about what happened with the Tea App. Billed as a place to spill secrets, vent frustrations, and share personal tr…

The Tea App was designed for secrets. It exposed 72,000 identities instead. A digital grapevine gone toxic—and a cultural lesson in trust.
👉 tinyurl.com/44pb7u2y

Every legal deadline calculation leaves a full digital fingerprint:

• Search criteria
• Calculation metadata
• Result record
• Detailed audit trail

Not just a result — a traceable legal event.

#LegalTech

Data isn't the byproduct. Data IS the platform. 🎯 #LegalTech

🚀 DTOs are the secret sauce of scalable legal tech.
Structured inputs → predictable, replayable outputs.
One source of truth for web forms, APIs, and engines.
Cleaner code. Fewer bugs. Future-proof.
#DotNet #LegalTech #SaaS

Some days you write UI. Some days you debug unit tests. Today? I refactored a law calculator to accept structured input and return reusable output. The invisible guts of SaaS aren’t sexy, but they’re what make the magic repeatable.
#indiedev #founderlife #backenddev

🚀 Tonight I wired up a major piece of the replay engine. Search inputs are now stored as first-class entities—structured, queryable, and ready for analytics. This unlocks audit, AI, and reuse across the board. Tomorrow, we wire the outputs.
#buildinpublic #legaltech #SaaS

Incredible day of development.

SearchCriteria + StatuteResults + StatusHistory = Full lineage tracking

#LegalTech #DotNet #Compliance

AI is driving mass layoffs in tech, but it’s boosting salaries by $18,000 a year everywhere else, study says.
tinyurl.com/4n3k5te3

💯 Keep your DTOs clean. The moment you add logic, they stop being DTOs and start being something else. Don’t blur boundaries — respect your layers. #CleanCode #SoftwareDesign #DevTips

Best practices aren’t about perfection — they’re about preventing rework. And in IT, rework is expensive. Every shortcut now is a debt you’ll repay with interest later. 💸 #SoftwareEngineering #TechDebt #BestPractices

Timeline Management Infrastructure.
#RockSolid #LegalTech

Refactored 3 verticals. Killed a bad constructor. Converted a massive entity into a pure DTO. Built a factory for complex search record generation. All tests passed. A solid morning’s work lays the foundation for legal calculators to shine.
#SaaS #LegalTech

Stop Hiding: 5 Ways to Make Yourself Visible in Tech Again If you’ve been in tech for a long time but feel invisible to recruiters and hiring managers, it’s probably not your skills that are the problem — it’s your visibility. You can be great at what you …

Stop Hiding: 5 Ways to Make Yourself Visible in Tech Again. Read it here 👉 tinyurl.com/3dw4rjew

Refactored core entities to inherit new HasAuditFields base class, unifying audit tracking across the app. Updated Clients, BillingPlans, Overrides, and AcknowledgedReminders. 27/27 unit tests passed. Tightened constraints, cleaned naming, and verified everything. #SolidDay 🛠️✅

If integrity matters in your application, then tight guardrails (constraints) aren't optional — they're foundational. Build it right. Build it honest.

Silent bugs are way more dangerous than loud errors. Better to trip on a constraint today than trace a phantom data issue six months from now.

Early mornings teach you two things:

1. Most people aren’t building anything.
2. Quiet consistency compounds faster than inspiration ever could.

Show up, even when no one’s watching. That’s where the shift begins. #BuildMode #MorningMindset

Every search is more than a deadline — it’s a data engine. I’m building a legal risk intelligence platform where each calculation yields 10+ monetizable signals: audit trails, user actions, overrides, and more. Precision in. Exhaust data out. #LegalTech #SaaS

The goal is simple; Design a risk intelligence platform that delivers best-in-class deadline calculators, generating 10+ monetizable data points per search—from audit trails to user actions.

Strengthening audit trails and soft-delete support continues today with a renewed focus on foreign key constraints and data consistency checks to keep everything rock solid. Clean data, reliable systems — that’s the goal! #DotNet #SQLServer #DevOps

Morning grind: My deadline app's override feature is now fully audited with IsDeleted, CreatedById, & more. Communities build reliable legal tech! #LegalTech

Pre-dawn coding.