AUTHOR: Jonny Jackson
DATE: 19 November 2025
The Augmetec team wanted to share some reflections following an extraordinary week at Google HQ, where our CEO Kritin and CSO Jonny represented Augmetec at the inaugural Google for Startups Gemini Founders Forum last week. The quality, pace and productiveness of stimulating conversations was unprecedented, with subject areas covering a variety of topics from the real meaning of Agentic AI to internal organisational excellence, with jaw dropping live product demonstrations from Googlers and other founders alike.
Cutting edge AI meets real world applications
Sure, live demos from Google Labs were technically impressive – really, they were – but they highlighted something we’ve been building towards: we’re in an era where we can redefine how investigations work using the latest in tech. Watching these tools in action reinforced our conviction that we’re on the cusp of a transformation in legal technology, one where the gap between what we envision and what we can deliver is narrowing rapidly.
However, great demos are only part of the story. The real challenge in building modern SaaS platforms isn’t about selecting the most advanced individual components – it’s about integration. Seamlessly connecting services, infrastructure, hardware, and data is where most technical visions stumble. You can have the best AI models, the most robust infrastructure, top-of-the-line hardware and pristine data, but if they don’t work together as a unified system, you’re building on sand. This is where strategic platform choices become critical. In order for us to deliver the scale and security that our users need, that integration capability isn’t a luxury – it’s fundamental to delivering the kind of transformation we are aiming towards.
The economics are transforming
Cost-per-quality-token is going to continue to drop for the foreseeable future. Open-source models that run on your laptop are beating flagship hosted models from 6 months ago. Similarly, game-changing models of today will soon be running on your mobile phones with ease. Of course, there are two components to that metric – cost per token, and quality of (output) tokens.
Based on the last 24 months of frontier model development, we think that a good rule of thumb is to plan for the capabilities of current flagship models to be available at 1/10th the cost within 12-18 months. The rate of innovation is unprecedented and we’re only getting started.
At Augmetec, we’re racing to bring these economics to legal and enterprise in a way that accelerates enquiry by orders of magnitude, while still delivering unprecedented accuracy and effectiveness in any product delivery.
Augmented intelligence: the future?
Some truly exciting discoveries lie ahead for those ready to dive into the science of AI. We all know that agents are the hot topic right now – and for good reason. But while the current generation of agents is essentially a cascading prompt injection workflow, it feels like a stopgap. Like using the existing network of telephone wires to host the internet until we laid dedicated fibre optic cables. What will it feel like to live in a world where expert, human intelligence is augmented with near-instant analysis on any subject?
Evolving fast, building right
There’s genuinely no time to doubt yourself – that means it’s truly the era of the superteam: integrated, interdisciplinary, and augmented. Be bold with internal initiatives and infuse your team’s DNA with a determination to evolve rapidly. A culture that is built with intention fosters alignment towards building something special. We’ve committed to undergoing rapid iterations as a team to find out how we work most effectively with each other and with our internal AI tech stack.
At the same time, it is vital to pay attention to the effectiveness of such a stack. The playbook for safe and effective use of AI is still being written. That’s not someone else’s problem, it is our responsibility to set the highest industry standards on security, governance and ethics to ensure our customers trust and productively use our tools in the real world. It isn’t a nice to have; it’s the foundation of everything we’re building.
LEIAA, our true next-gen investigations platform, is built from the ground up to enable experts to expand their enquiries across dozens of simultaneous processes, millions of documents, and without compromising on safety and security.
