Logan Brown, founder and CEO of **Soxton**, joins the Social Good Podcast to talk about building an AI-powered law firm for startups after seeing her Big Law clients turn to ChatGPT for legal answers. She breaks down how Soxton handles incorporations, financings, and contracts at a fraction of Big Law prices, why founders should be careful with VC side letters, and what she looks for when hiring lawyers and engineers.

**Timestamps:**
- 01:12 What Soxton does: an AI-powered law firm for startups
- 01:53 How ChatGPT's early days inspired Logan to become a founder
- 02:34 Soxton's client range, from garage startups to RBC
- 03:21 Why entity formation is usually a startup's first legal need
- 04:18 The two biggest problem areas: corporate governance and commercial contracts
- 05:05 The risk hiding in VC side letters, and why founders sign away too much
- 06:38 Where Soxton fits in the legal tech landscape
- 08:18 Soxton's strength: $925/hour at Cooley vs. $500 a contract at Soxton
- 08:56 How Soxton keeps a human lawyer in the loop over AI output
- 11:07 Soxton's biggest weakness: hiring more lawyers and engineers
- 11:46 What Logan looks for in lawyers and engineers
- 12:29 Soxton's proprietary, fine-tuned AI models
- 13:04 Co-founder Asher and the engineering team
- 14:05 Soxton's challenges going into Q4 2026
- 14:28 A client case study: incorporation to an $8M seed round
- 15:20 Helping founders outside the VC path, including a nurse building a health app
- 19:02 Where to find Soxton on social media and how to sign up

**Links:**
- Sign up: [soxton.ai](https://soxton.ai)
- Soxton on Twitter/LinkedIn: search Soxton AI
- Logan on Twitter/LinkedIn: [LoganBrown799](https://twitter.com/LoganBrown799)

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Effective Altruism Sweden's Dr. Ysaline Bourgine de Meder on (1:36) Effective Altruism as an international movement, (3:59) finding areas to work on that are neglected, (6:00) celebrating 10 years at EA Sweden, (8:38) career advising at EA Sweden in fields including nonprofits, government and corporations, (13:40) following through with EA members throughout their career advising, (15:15) what inspired Dr. Bourgine de Meder to work at EA Sweden, (19:15) working together with the other EA Nordic chapters, (20:22) the top issues that EA Sweden members are working on, (27:00) being inspired by members of EA Sweden, (29:14) working with sister organization Give Effective to help people donate effectively, (30:09) Dr. Bourgine de Meder's work at EA Sweden, and (32:00) Dr. Ysa and EA Sweden's future.

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Buena Vida Specialty Coffee's Gally Meyer on (0:50) running one of the top coffee shops in North America, Central America and the Caribbean regions, (1:36) starting Buena Vida Specialty Coffee 6 years ago, (2:40) defining regenerative farming, (5:27) measuring regenerative farming at Buena Vida Specialty Coffee, (8:14) understanding regenerative agriculture and the ecosystem in which it works including 80% of farmers who live below the poverty line, (14:30) migrant coffee farm workers and major coffee companies who make money from the coffee industry, (16:20) three major coffee markets wherein 95-97% are not compensating coffee farmers fairly, (18:11) how Gally got her start with Buena Vida Specialty Coffee, (20:12) working closely as partners of coffee farms in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia, (23:30) partnering with coffee shops and roasters throughout the U.S. and Europe and valuing relationships with both customers and partners, (24:38) her involvement with several documentaries including Kiss the Ground, Common Ground and Ground Swell to educate the public on regenerative farming, (27:14) attending Climate Week in New York, (28:20) her efforts to end the extraction model of underpaying coffee farmers and change the coffee industry by 2050.

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www.buenavida.coffee
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Mallory discusses (1:00) spending 10 years in San Francisco, (2:33) working in community brand and content marketing at Tumblr in 2010's, (3:00) starting a blog to connect with other gamers, (3:37) working at Discord as an early employee after her blog took off, (4:50) starting whatever studio, (5:37) joining Bolt.new as a fractional marketing officer, (6:30) raising money for kindasorta after leaving Discord, (7:45) playing video games with her dad growing up, (9:23) the role of communities in gaming, (13:40) old school gaming communities or LAN events, (17:50) the rise of PC rooms across Korea and Asia, (19:28) console gaming being more popular in the West, (21:25) recreating old games that she played as a child with AI, (25:05) helping early-stage tech companies build their community from the ground up, (26:00) doing a hackathon for her client, (26:55) doing grassroots and social media campaigns for enterprise companies, (28:55) working with clients for between 3-6 months, (30:55) focusing on brand awareness or word-of-mouth marketing for tech clients, (32:36) attracting prosumers for Bolt.new, at a hackathon by naturally building a way for people to use their product, (33:50) partnering with 10-12 other AI companies to offset the 1 million dollar prize money, (36:45) building trust for tech products through community, (38:36) working with companies that are Series A and beyond, (39:50) building community on Discord through challenges, (43:01) handing off Discord communities to clients post-project and (43:36) leaving security to pursue kindasorta studio.

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www.kindasortastudio.com
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Nicole discusses (0:55) her time studying Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University, (1:28) dealing with mental health issues at Columbia and trying to help others once she healed, (2:48) reaching people with mental health issues through Soul Health, (4:18) helping people reconcile their professional lives with their personal lives, (5:26) helping entrepreneurs avoid burnout, (7:43) dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur as a child, (11:29) entering Columbia as a Physics major, (12:28) pivoting twice with Soul Health, (13:48) life as a solo founder, (14:47) working with 3 accelerators and a venture capital firm, (15:28) making progress with Soul Health since February, (18:11) working on Soul Health while on a clean slate with her own mental health, (20:48) costs to advancements in technology in 2026, and (23:25) finding her hope through Christianity, her family and her faith in herself.

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Mhraf discusses (1:04) growing up in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa; then attending Trinity College in Connecticut in the U.S., (1:34) studying Economics and International Relations with a concentration in African Studies at Trinity College, (2:43) attending African Leadership Academy in South Africa with a tight-knit group of 100 students for two years, (12:47) working in education for 8 years, (13:43) heading sales and partnerships at Chatac, (15:40) moving back to Africa, (17:03) bringing over her network of educators to Chatac, (17:44) working together with her team of 8 people at Chatac, (19:25) serving almost 40,000 learners to lower-connectivity areas such as Afghanistan through Sola X, (20:34) allowing learning to happen on WhatsApp through AI, (23:20) working with a wide age group range and deploying learning in local languages and local contexts through AI, (26:04) scouting mission-aligned organizations in remote areas who are online, (27:54) training teachers in their pedagogy, (28:49) tapping into previous connections and talking to new connections to build a pipeline, (30:00) working to integrate Chatac into government entities, (32:00) attempting to build an intuitive platform on WhatsApp, (33:47) being wary of use cases for AI, (35:25) the role of AI in society and necessary protocol, (38:00) designing Chatac's AI around the 7 vectors of learning in the U.S, and (39:18) the importance of the human element in education.

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www.chatac.ai

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The Second Chance Project's Louise Prashad discusses (0:16) celebrating her birthday and anniversary with family this week, (1:40) growing up in York, U.K., (2:22) experiencing a coma mid-birth from a rare liver condition which led to the stillbirth of her twins in 2016, (3:04) waking up a month later from the coma and having had undergone a liver transplant, (3:50) coming to terms with the organ donor and finding light at the end of the tunnel, (4:17) having had spent the last 10 years rebuilding her life and building The Second Chance Project as a part of this, (4:39) struggling with depression as a 21-year-old experiencing a miscarriage and organ transplant, (5:06) starting small with The Second Chance Project by telling her story at talks at educational and professional institutions, (5:50) continuing her advocacy work for organ donation through The Second Chance Project, (6:02) recruiting speakers and motivating participants to stay active, (7:12) the details of the organ donation process, (8:21) meeting the organ donor's family, (9:30) the experience for the organ donation recipient's family, (11:04) learning to be resilient and rebuilding, (12:51) talking to educational and medical institutions about the power of organ donation, (13:47) finding a way out of depression through sports, (14:30) completing 320 races thus far, (14:44) giving back to transplant athletes and finding camaraderie at the British Transplant Games, (19:32) supporting individuals with intellectually disabilities through her day job at the Special Olympics and (32:48) improving her mental health, mindset and life through sports.

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Louise will be competing in the Leeds British Transplant Games this weekend. Please donate to the British Transplant Games here: https://givestar.io/gs/a-decade-of-second-chances

In episode 26, Sarah Jakle discusses (0:26) supporting historically underserved high school girls in going to public service, (0:52) teaching perseverance and positive self-talk, (3:35) vastly underestimating the high school girls that she works with, (4:29) showing, not telling, leadership from young women through peer-to-peer mentorship and leadership programs, (6:20) building a pipeline for recruiting young women in office, (8:00) using grounding techniques in every step of Democrashe's workshops, (11:19) paying a stipend to Democrashe's participants in a grassroots effort to fight unpaid internship work, (14:40) instilling a sense of birthright and belonging for young girls in the U.S. to running for office and leading the country, (15:28) meeting success in using Instagram as a platform for recruiting girls nationally to Democrashe, (20:28) mentoring girls in Democrashe to take on authentic responses as they grow confidently into roles such as public office, (21:44) Sarah's military master's in social work at USC as part of her training to start Democrashe, (22:32) addressing the underrepresentation and misaligned treatment of women in U.S. politics, (25:20) further supporting the development of Democrashe and its work, (28:04) opening the speaker floor at Democrashe for any woman who is passionate about a cause or topic, (28:14) resourcing funding for Democrashe, (28:53) expanding Democrashe's workshops in the latter half of 2026, (34:23) passing bills in the House floor for Democrashe to prepare women to go into office in equipping them to save lives in the real world, (35:17) accrediting Melinda French Gates for giving roles to different sectors of society for the safekeeping of the United States as a republic and how advocating for women and girls to properly go into politics fits into that story.

Links:

www.democrashe.org
https://www.facebook.com/DemocraShe-110108011246367
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