Selected Work
Chief A.I. Strategist — building software and AI systems for Dorf Nelson & Zauderer and the companies in its orbit.
Josh Nelson joined Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP as the firm's A.I. Coordinator — a focused mandate to bring artificial intelligence into the firm's day-to-day legal and administrative work.
His turning point was the firm's billing system. Rather than treat billing as a back-office chore, he rebuilt it into a secure, self-updating billing portal and an automated origination–commission calculator that replaced hours of manual spreadsheet work and gave the firm's owner a single, always-current view of the entire financial picture. The value of that work reached well beyond his original title.
On the strength of that work, he grew from A.I. Coordinator into the firm's Chief A.I. Strategist — and from there into a consultant for other businesses and law firms, building dashboards, investor portals, booking platforms, websites, and AI tooling end to end for the companies and clients in the firm's orbit. The work below traces that arc.
This is where Josh started — and where AI changed how the firm runs. He brought Dorf Nelson & Zauderer onto Anthropic's Claude and trained the team to use it day to day, then built the firm's entire billing portal: one secure, AI-run login where the owner sees the whole financial picture of the firm, always current. It replaced hours of manual spreadsheet work and made the firm dramatically more efficient — the numbers update themselves from the firm's accounting exports, and the portal writes a plain-English read-out of what changed after every update.
For a custom team-uniform manufacturer, Josh rebuilt the public website and built an AI-run command center for the business — a private, owner-only portal that reads the company's reports and rebuilds itself every pass, turning raw operations and finance data into live dashboards the owner can read at a glance. Same AI-loop approach as the firm: drop in the reports and the portal re-crunches everything and refreshes every chart.
For a private-equity family office with a multi-sector portfolio across real estate, technology, healthcare and finance, Josh built and maintains the investor-facing website and a private, login-only investor portal.
One of the businesses under Third House's management is Leafwell Farm, an eco-wellness cabin retreat. Josh built its entire guest-booking platform end to end.
Reach Josh directly at joshnelson@dorflaw.com.