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Exp Technology Consultants Inc. · San Diego, California

Court-ready blockchain evidence in 24 hours, not two weeks.

Dr. Andreas Freund embeds with litigation, regulatory and innovation teams as the firm's own technical bench — on-chain tracing, smart contract audits, expert declarations and enterprise legal AI. The same forensic hours your matters already need, at 30–50% lower effective spend, with no vendor retainer locking up client capital.

Bring one live or prospective matter. You leave the call with a feasibility read, a turnaround estimate, and the specific vendor line items that come out of the budget. Conflict check before anything starts. No retainer.

01 — Profile

Dr. Andreas Freund

Founder, Exp Technology Consultants Inc. — San Diego, California

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Dr. Andreas Freund

The person who writes the forensic scripts is the same person who sits with the partners filing the declaration. No analyst-to-vendor-to-partner relay, no translation layer, and no hand-off between the technical finding and the legal argument built on it.

His doctorate is in theoretical particle physics — a discipline built on pulling defensible conclusions out of noisy, high-volume data and showing the derivation at every step. Courts ask for the same thing from a technical declaration: method stated, data reproducible, conclusions carried no further than the evidence supports. Alongside it sits large-scale enterprise technology delivery — a $2Bn+ enterprise value track record — and formal process engineering as a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

A vendor sends a report and an invoice. What a partner actually needs is the finding, the method behind it, and someone who can stand behind both on the court's deadline.
Doctorate
Theoretical Particle Physics
Enterprise value track record
$2Bn+
Process certification
Six Sigma Black Belt

02 — What changes for your practice

Four things that change on the next digital asset matter.

Digital asset and AI matters are traditionally routed to forensic accounting firms, intelligence vendors or generalist IT consultants. Replacing that path with an embedded technical advisor changes the economics, the calendar and what the firm can sell.

The forensic line on the client's bill drops 30–50%

The same tracing, decompilation and declaration work — without vendor markup, per-matter minimum retainers, or data platform surcharges passed through to the client.

Deadlines that were impossible become workable

Tracing, code analysis and daily digests come back same-day or within 24 hours, against the one-to-two-week lead time a vendor quotes after its retainer clears.

New billable offerings, not only cost savings

A DeFi exploit emergency response retainer and a "Know Your Agent" practice group are revenue lines the firm can launch with the technical side already staffed.

You pitch with the technical expert in the room

Litigation scoping, client pitch support and AI Steering Committee participation sit inside the monthly retainer rather than arriving as a separate vendor invoice.

Third-party vendor path

Conventional

  • Forensic accounting firms, intelligence vendors and generalist IT consultants engaged per matter
  • Vendor markups, minimum retainers and data platform surcharges
  • One to two week lead times on tracing and code analysis
  • Communication barriers between analysts and litigation partners

Embedded technical advisory

This engagement

  • Senior architecture, custom data science and forensics seated alongside the legal team
  • No vendor markup, no minimum retainer, no platform pass-through
  • Same-day and 24-hour turnaround on tracing, decompilation and digests
  • Declarations drafted directly with the partners who will file them

03 — Practice benchmarks

What the embedded model returned over a twelve-month term.

Anonymized aggregate data from 15+ active matters with AmLaw 100 digital asset and legal tech practice groups.

Direct savings

$175K–$275K+

Verified vendor fee savings across a standard 12-month term.

Effective rate

30–50%

Reduction in effective hourly spend against external vendor rates.

Capital lockup

$0

No per-matter vendor retainer tying up firm capital before work begins.

Turnaround

24 hrs

Same-day to 24-hour delivery, against 1–2 week vendor lead times.

Data platform surcharges are eliminated entirely: analysis runs on custom scripting rather than licensed third-party subscriptions. The figures above are the summary; vendor rate and retainer detail is available on request.

04 — Representative engagements

Work of record.

Sanitized to public court records and published client alerts. No non-public client representation or case detail appears here.

01

Public federal digital asset litigation

Smart contract reallocation analysis, token burn and mint verification, and standing daily transfer digests. Co-authored court-admissible technical fact declarations under tight court deadlines.

Federal litigation Declarations Daily digests

02

Solana DEX insider trading investigation

Custom Python and Solana forensic scripts analyzing Key Opinion Leader wallet activity and insider trading patterns. Front-running sequences identified without any external software subscription.

Custom scripting Wallet clustering Front-running

03

Cross-chain bankruptcy protocol litigation

Code-versus-documentation analysis of GitHub signing paths, formal court declarations prepared, and expert witness preparation led through the engagement.

Bankruptcy Code vs. doc audit Expert prep

04

Public policy & thought leadership

An OCR pipeline and hosted web interface parsing the 600+ page Digital Asset Market Clarity Act into an interactive node graph — established as firm thought leadership and used actively as a client acquisition tool.

Policy tooling OCR pipeline Node graph

Making the case internally? Send your executive committee the value brief →

05 — Service pillars

Four pillars, from the chain to the courtroom to the firm's own stack.

Each pillar in context, with the value it creates for the firm, is set out in the value brief.

Pillar A

On-chain forensics, smart contract auditing & litigation support

Direct technical investigation and court-admissible evidence preparation for blockchain disputes, regulatory enforcement actions and bankruptcies.

  • Decompilation & code-vs-doc auditsGitHub source, commit histories and signing paths weighed against whitepapers and marketing representations.
  • Custom forensic scriptingCross-chain scripts for fraudulent trading, suspicious wallet clusters, front-running, sandwiching and KOL insider trading.
  • Automated tracking & daily digestsAnalytics pipelines and scraping scripts producing daily suspicious activity reports and live transaction tracking.
  • Court-admissible declarationsDirect authorship of technical fact declarations and expert witness preparation with litigation partners.

Pillar B

Institutional digital asset architecture & public policy

Technical architecture and legislative analysis for digital asset issuers, protocol foundations and financial institution clients.

  • Interactive statutory visualizationNode-graph parsing that turns 600+ pages of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act into a searchable tool.
  • Compliant protocol designReference architectures for ERC-4337 yield-bearing stablecoins and zero-knowledge proof of reserve frameworks.
  • Infrastructure & app-chain migrationEvaluation of Layer-2 scaling, app-chain migrations and DAO treasury security governance.

Pillar C

Firmwide legal AI & agentic workflows

End-to-end strategy, architecture and deployment of enterprise generative AI and autonomous agent frameworks for firm operations.

  • Agentic docket & semantic searchSelf-hosted ModernBERT embeddings and OpenSearch vector databases for real-time PACER docket tracking.
  • Enterprise LLM deploymentSecurity, VDI infrastructure and rollout roadmaps for platforms such as Anthropic's Claude for Legal.
  • Multi-agent intelligence networksAgentic Unified Signal Intelligence wired into the DMS for pre-briefings and regulatory monitoring.
  • AI governance & risk managementAI Steering Committees, model risk management protocols and GenAI validation standards for regulated environments.

Pillar D

Legal-technical client offerings

Co-developed, client-facing practice lines that pair legal counsel with embedded technical execution.

  • DeFi exploit emergency response unitA legal-technical retainer for immediate regulatory triage, contract pausing analysis and multi-chain fund tracing during a live exploit.
  • "Know Your Agent" practice groupLegal and technical advisory on autonomous AI agent identity, contractual enforceability and AML/sanctions compliance.

06 — Press & insights

Writing and press since 2017.

Peer-reviewed research, opinion pieces, technical articles and interviews on digital asset compliance, blockchain economics and enterprise adoption — each linked to the original.

Ongoing commentary on LinkedIn ↗

07 — Working structure

Three ways firms engage.

I

Monthly advisory retainer

Firmwide or practice-group level. Continuous access for litigation scoping, client pitch support, AI Steering Committee participation and public policy tracking.

II

Dedicated expert hours

Matter-specific. Allocated hours against active litigation or transactional matters needing forensic tracing, code audits, data science scripting or court declarations.

III

Rapid incident response

A joint client offering. On-call availability for immediate technical response during live protocol exploits, hacks or emergency regulatory freezes.

Client confidentiality

All non-public client representations, internal due diligence and proprietary case detail are strictly protected and sanitized. Case studies reference only public court records or published client alerts.

Formal conflict clearance

Before any advisory engagement or matter-specific assignment, a formal conflict check is run against existing representations to ensure zero adverse representation. Attorney-client privilege, non-disclosure obligations and legal industry ethics rules govern throughout.

08 — Contact

Start with the matter in front of you.

Twenty minutes on one live or prospective matter, and how an engagement begins from there.

Matter review — 20 minutesFeasibility, turnaround estimate, and the vendor line items that come out of the budget.
Formal conflict checkRun against existing representations before any engagement is executed.
Scoped hours on the matterDedicated expert hours or a monthly retainer. No upfront capital lockup.

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Exp Technology Consultants Inc.
11024 Caminito Vista Pacifica
San Diego, CA 92131, USA