Vibe Lawyering with Artur Serov

# Vibe Lawyering with Artur Serov > Most conversations about legal AI start with what vendors are building. This one starts with what a lawyer built himself — in his spare time, using tools that didn't exist 6 months ago. [Read on Substack](https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/p/vibe-lawyering-with-artur-serov) · 2026-01-28 · Law What's Next --- Hey Friends 👋 A quick reminder: Law://WhatsNext is our vehicle to explore through dialogue (or occasional reflection) how leading lawyers, educators and technologists are using emerging tech to evolve how we practice and administer legal services. No hype - just practical conversations. 🎙️ This week we sit down with Artur Serov — a Senior Commercial Counsel working in-house across corporate, commercial, and AI compliance — who has been quietly vibe coding legal tech solutions that rival features in commercial platforms. This is a practical, how-I-did-it episode. Artur walks us through his journey from first principles — the failed early experiments, the tools that unlocked progress, and the specific steps any curious lawyer could follow to start building. Listen Now Available here and on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts. Artur shares his screen during our conversation to demo a Word add-in with features he couldn’t find in commercial legal tech (party-aware context, risk appetite dials, AI-powered negotiation prep), and previews a more ambitious workspace prototype where AI retains memory across an entire transaction lifecycle. Since publishing this prototype has evolved, and you can read more about that here. Artur is candid about what’s now possible: with Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3, self-built solutions can get remarkably close to enterprise-grade. But he’s equally honest about the remaining hurdles — deployment, maintenance, security — and his belief that a growing community of “vibe lawyers” will help solve them together. What You’ll Learn: The First Principles Path to Technical Fluency — How Artur went from zero coding experience to working prototypes, using Claude as a teacher and Google Antigravity as his development environment What’s Missing from Commercial Legal Tech — Why context is the killer feature, and how Artur built deal-aware AI that knows who you represent, what you’re negotiating, and what risks you’re willing to take The Workspace Vision — A prototype where AI memory persists across NDAs, partnership agreements, and every document in a transaction — with your playbooks and policies embedded as reference materials Why Building Makes You Better at Everything Else — From vendor negotiations to IT collaboration, how technical fluency transforms your effectiveness as in-house counsel How to Get Started — Artur’s practical advice: a Claude subscription, Google Antigravity, and the willingness to ask “how do I do this?” Key References from Our Conversation Google Antigravity Google’s AI-powered integrated development environment, released November 2025 alongside Gemini 3. Artur uses it as his primary coding environment, praising its generous free tier and agentic capabilities. Claude Anthropic’s AI assistant, which Artur uses in two ways: as a patient teacher explaining technical concepts and setup steps, and as the underlying model (via the Claude SDK) powering his workspace prototype. He credits Claude’s ability to explain things clearly as essential to his learning journey. Voyage AI Vector embedding service (now part of MongoDB) that Artur’s workspace prototype uses for semantic search across reference materials. LangChain The open-source framework Artur plans to use to make his workspace prototype model-agnostic before public release. He wants lawyers to be able to use whichever AI provider they prefer, rather than being locked into a single vendor. Connect with Artur LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/artur-serov GitHub: https://github.com/sarturko-maker/vibe-legal-prototype/tree/main - Artur has open-sourced his projects — for lawyers to fork, test, and build upon. We hope you enjoy this conversation! Share this with colleagues who’ve been curious about vibe coding but weren’t sure where to start 🛠️ Tom & Alex Thanks for reading Law://WhatsNext! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.