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    <description>Essays by Craig Cornick on legal AI, litigation finance, claimant-side growth, and legal operating systems.</description>
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    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Case Intake Is Where Legal AI Either Wins or Dies]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/case-intake-is-where-legal-ai-either-wins-or-dies</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why most legal AI strategies fail before the model is used, because the intake layer is still messy, slow, and commercially blind.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Legal AI built from the operator's seat]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trust Is a Law Firm Operating System]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/trust-is-a-law-firm-operating-system</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why trust is not a brand veneer for claimant-side firms, but an operational discipline built through timing, clarity, and reliable handoffs.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Law firm strategy under operational pressure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Litigation Finance Needs Better Case-Market Signals]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/why-litigation-finance-needs-better-case-market-signals</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why funders need clearer live signals on demand, economics, and claimant behaviour before they can price modern case portfolios intelligently.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Litigation finance as firm infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Claimant Acquisition Is Now a Product Problem]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/claimant-acquisition-is-now-a-product-problem</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why the next wave of claimant growth will come from operators who treat intake, qualification, and trust as one designed system rather than a lead-generation expense.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Claimant acquisition and trust systems]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Legal AI Needs an Operator Data Model]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/legal-ai-needs-an-operator-data-model</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why legal AI only becomes durable when it is trained against workflow, exception handling, and live case economics rather than generic legal text alone.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Legal AI built from the operator's seat]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Cases No One Else Will Fund]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/the-cases-no-one-else-will-fund</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why serious access to justice begins where comfort ends and where mainstream funders stop underwriting.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Access to justice where the market hesitates]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Litigation Finance Is Becoming a Firm Capability]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/litigation-finance-is-becoming-a-firm-capability</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A case for treating funding as part of the firm's operating architecture rather than as an occasional external instrument.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Litigation finance as firm infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why the Big Legal AI Vendors Will Never Win]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/why-the-big-legal-ai-vendors-will-never-win</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A first-person argument for operator-built legal AI over surface-level software sold from the outside in.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Legal AI built from the operator's seat]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Access to Justice Needs Distribution, Not Just Principle]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/access-to-justice-needs-distribution-not-just-principle</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why the cases people say matter most still lose unless someone builds the acquisition, communication, and operating channels that let claimants act.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Access to justice where the market hesitates]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The New Economics of Small-Firm AI]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/the-new-economics-of-small-firm-ai</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[How specialist firms can now behave with institutional quality without surrendering their niche edge.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Law firm strategy under operational pressure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[When Litigation Finance Becomes Infrastructure]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/when-litigation-finance-becomes-infrastructure</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why funding is no longer an accessory to legal practice but part of the operating system itself.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Litigation finance as firm infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Building an Intelligence Platform Taught Me About Distribution]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/what-building-an-intelligence-platform-taught-me-about-distribution</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A product-builder's view of why insight only matters when it reaches the operators who can use it.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Founders, conviction, and timing]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Founder Quality That Actually Matters]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/the-founder-quality-that-actually-matters</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why temperament under pressure is a better long-range signal than performance, speed, or pitch quality.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Founders, conviction, and timing]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Public–Private Divide in Legal Intelligence]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Why public legal data only becomes valuable when paired with operator context and informed interpretation.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Legal AI built from the operator's seat]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I Think About Conviction, Risk, and Timing]]></title>
      <link>https://www.craigcornick.com/writing/how-i-think-about-conviction-risk-and-timing</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A practical framework for matching belief with timing discipline in markets that move more slowly than consumer software.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Founders, conviction, and timing]]></category>
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