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Most see the present.

Few see what's coming.

Most counsel sees the risk. Foresight::Legal sees the opportunity inside it.

Risk-calibrated. Engineering fluent. At speed. Flex, Fractional and Outside Counsel for AI, deeptech, data security, privacy and regulatory matters. 

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What Google knew.

What Meta learned.

Now available to you.

Foresight:: is not prediction.
It is preparation to the power of (instinct).

01 — The Approach

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You don't need more legal advice. You need someone who has already helped companies make the decision that you're about to.

Calibrated for how fast you want to go. Counsel moving at the pace of potential. High- velocity tech companies have legal blind spots — the ones who see them first capture a competitive edge.

The legal field measures success by what it prevents.

Foresight::Legal measures success by what it makes possible for you.

How We Work

15+

Years in-house

Google & Meta

40+

U.S. Patents
Held by founder

$130B

Revenue portfolio
Led at scale

$500B

Enterprise valuation
moved · one legal strategy
nine months

The Foresight:: Advantage

See what is real.
See clearly what matters.
See what is next::beyond.

Most counsel just stop at step one.

Foresight:: is just getting started.

02 — Radical Clarity

Clear the Noise

We cut through clamour, regulatory fog, and technical complexity so your team can focus on what drives real competitive advantage. Until only the decision that matters remains.

01 — Situational Intelligence

See What Is Real

In a regulatory landscape shifting faster than most teams can track, we identify the critical risks and opportunities others miss. No speculation — just clarity on what matters right now.

03 — Challenge Catalyst

See Beyond to Exponentiate

We translate foresight into actionable solutions that turn today's challenges into tomorrow's exponential growth factor. The challenge becomes the advantage that compounds.

Delivered fractionally, interim or for special projects —

No overhead. Only opportunity.

How We Work

Access the elite counsel
your moment requires.

And beyond.

Special ops counsel. Slots in. No ramp-up. No hand-holding. Focused exclusively on AI, deeptech, data-security, privacy, and regulatory matters at speed.

02 — FRACTIONAL

Fractional Legal Support

Embedded in your legal department on an ongoing basis — 10 to 50% time — operating like a senior member of your team without the full-time cost. Fluency is not familiarity. Fluency is reading a data flow diagram and knowing, before anyone asks, where the risk lives. Risk-calibrated for how fast you want to grow.

01 — FLEX

Interim Embedded Support

Embedded in your legal department on an ongoing basis — 10 to 50% time — operating like a senior member of your team without the full-time cost. Fluency is not familiarity. Fluency is reading a data flow diagram and knowing, before anyone asks, where the risk lives. Risk-calibrated for how fast you want to grow.

03 —  outside counsel

Special Projects Counsel

For the challenge that demands the highest level of insight and instinct. A regulatory response. A product launch. A privacy architecture built under pressure. Foresight:: deploys with complete focus, defined scope, and the same depth brought to every engagement. Navigating in light of big picture, practical application and risk-calibrated to find the growth quotient within the risk.

Engineering fluent. Risk calibrated. Ready before you hit commit.

Available to any organization, in any sector, navigating AI, deeptech, and regulatory legal terrain.

And beyond...
Not every team needs embedded counsel just yet.
Some need the instinctive intelligence first.

Advisory & Education

AI & Deeptech Training

Regulatory Briefings

Board & Leadership Advisory

Legal Awareness Programs

Strategic Insights

Programs & Deliverables

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Privacy Compliance & Product Reviews

End-to-end privacy review of products, data flows, and compliance posture — before launch or under pressure.

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AI Governance & Hygiene Programs

Built-to-fit governance frameworks, policy design, and compliance hygiene for AI deployment.

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Legal Training & Awareness Programs

Custom education for legal and product teams on AI regulation, data privacy, and emerging tech law — before the problem has a name.

Practice Areas

Ten disciplines. One standard.
Engineered for the most demanding tech environments.

Built on decades of serving Fortune 100 technology companies — from Google and Meta to high-growth startups. Every practice area reflects direct operational experience, not advisory distance.

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Commercial

Strategic partnerships and commercial agreements at speed — AI and deeptech deals, technology transfer, data and IP licensing, integrations, and SaaS. Negotiation frameworks and clause libraries built for the speed of AI, data, and technology products. Google and Meta experience brought to every deal, at every scale — from Amazon, Shopify, and Temu to Neustar, DoubleVerify, and LiveRamp.

09

Consumer Rights & Product Liability

Hardware product counsel, FTC compliance, terms of service, and user agreements — ensuring products are compliant and businesses are protected in the digital economy.

08

Children & Youth

COPPA compliance, parental consent mechanisms, child safety technology, and age-appropriate design — across devices, platforms, advertising, and AI-generated content.

07

Content & Platform Immunity

Platform governance under the DSA, P2B Regulation, and Section 230. Content moderation policy, notice-and-takedown, and IP infringement processes built to scale.

06

Open Source

Comprehensive open source strategy including license evaluation, policy development, and audit procedures. Managed the open source strategy for the Chrome Operating System.

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Intellectual Property

Patent prosecution, M&A due diligence, defensive publications, portfolio acquisitions and licensing — protecting freedom to operate from startup to Fortune 100.

04

Advertising & Marketing

Full-stack ad counsel — identity, ranking, targeting, measurement, and bidding. Navigating European regulatory headwinds to turn compliance into competitive advantage.

03

AI & Machine Learning

Compliance strategy, governance frameworks, fairness processes, and explainability requirements for AI and ML deployments — across hardware, ranking, targeting, identity, and cloud infrastructure.

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Data Privacy

GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, PIPA, DPDP and beyond. Privacy-enhancing technologies, regulatory response strategy, and governance programs — forged in the most hostile regulatory environments in history.

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Product Counseling

Full product life cycle legal support — from whiteboard to post-launch. Deep technical investigation of data stores, data flows, and front-end UI to build a complete product risk profile.

Areas of Expertise

What Foresight::Legal covers.Where the depth lives.

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AI · Data · Privacy Strategy

Fluency is not familiarity. Fluency is reading a data flow diagram and knowing — before anyone asks — where the risk lives. When a major platform's data pipeline was threatened, most teams drafted memos. Foresight:: invented a new architecture.

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Interim Embedded Counsel

Slots in immediately — shows up to meetings, requires minimal oversight, and operates like a senior member of your team from day one. No learning curve. No hand-holding. The work is already done before most lawyers read the brief.

03

Fractional General Counsel

Speed is not recklessness. Speed is already having seen the problem before it appears. Risk calibrated for how fast you want to go — partner-level depth, startup-appropriate speed. Counsel moving at the pace of potential.

Preparation

(Instinct)

Foresight::

Photo of Jack Chen smiling on front steps of Google office in New York City.

Led by Jack Chen

The name is not metaphor.
The founder is blind.

A lifetime of seeing beyond limits is why he sees further than anyone in the field.

Jack Chen built his career at the intersection of technology and law — top of class at Harvard and Berkeley in computer science, Fordham Law School Class of 2005, and architect of 40+ U.S. patents spanning wireless technologies, UI/UX, home automation, and sentiment analysis. Twenty years shaping in-house legal strategy at the world's largest tech companies. Eleven years inside Google. Four years leading Meta's $130B ads legal operation, managing complex product and privacy matters impacting billions of users.

One person. Fifteen years inside Google and Meta.
What he did for Google and Meta he can do for you.

His approach to foresight is forged in practice: summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, completing multiple Ironman-distance triathlons and marathons, and co-founding Team Sea to See — the first all-blind stoker tandem team to finish the 3,100-mile Race Across America. Every achievement accomplished completely blind. He has spent a lifetime training the rare ability to perceive what others cannot, then act with decisive precision. This is the same disciplined foresight he now brings to big-tech legal teams facing regulatory speed that demands nothing less.

Harvard University

UC Berkeley

Fordham Law

Google · 11 Years

Meta · Ads Legal Lead

40+ U.S. Patents

Ironman Triathlete

Team Sea to See · RAAM

"In a field moving at the speed of light, the difference between leading and reacting is measured in foresight."

Insight · Newsletter

Decoding Counsel

Jack's newsletter on tech law, foresight, and strategic advantage. Over 1,000 subscribers.

A Word on Availability

How many lawyers have run legal strategy for $130B and $200B juggernauts and are available to you?
Right now. We counted.

The answer is one. There is intelligence inside Foresight:: that cannot be researched, replicated, or retained from a traditional firm. It exists because someone lived it. At Google. At Meta. It is available for you and your team today.

Foresight:: does not scale through volume. It scales through what we can achieve for you. Founder-level oversight on every matter — every case known. Capacity is limited. By design.

"If you are asking whether Foresight:: is the right fit for your department, the answer is yes. The question is timing."

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"Jack is an outstanding Product Counsel and an essential asset to our legal team. He excels at navigating complex, multijurisdictional matters — demonstrating both strong legal and technical acumen to rapidly grasp complicated issues and obtain impactful results. He recently partnered with clients, legal, and policy teams to successfully alter the direction of a regulatory enforcement action, ultimately saving the company millions of dollars in potential exposure. Jack's ability to quickly ramp up and build trust and rapport with executives makes him an exceptionally effective and reliable legal partner."

C.M.

Senior Counsel · Google

★★★★★

The horizon belongs to those who see it first.

See the unseen.
Clear the noise.
Move first. Win.

Speed and risk-calibrated. Engineering fluent. Available now.

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