Building a Claude Stack for a Regulated Vertical (What I Learned Shipping for Law Firms)

Most of the "I built an AI workflow" posts you see on here treat Claude like a fancy text box. Open chat, paste prompt, copy answer, ship. That's fine for solo dev tasks. It falls apart fast when you start building for someone else's business, especially one with strict confidentiality, compliance baggage, and a workflow that runs on documents. I've been building Claude-powered tooling for law firms for the last year. The vertical doesn't matter as much as you'd think. Replace "motion to compel"