Travis Olson

About Travis Olson

I run and build harnessed AI tools that do the heavy document search work — reading entire case files, extracting facts from case documents, surfacing what matters — so experts can focus on the thinking that actually requires expertise.The old way: teams of paralegals run keyword searches across the record, code documents for relevance, and hand the expert a curated subset. The new way: the tool does the retrieval and cross-referencing at scale, traces every finding back to source, and lets the expert query the full record. Counsel gets an expert opinion sooner, on a cleaner record, and the expert\'s engineering judgment shapes the search itself.This isn\'t the old workflow, sped up — it\'s a different workflow. Expert judgment moves to the front, into the design of the search itself, and stays through verification of every finding. The tool doesn\'t replace expert judgment. It\'s where expert judgment now lives.

Experience

1. Director - Ai Lab

   BRG

   Oct 2024 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Leading development of AI systems for legal dispute analysis. hours invested, billions of tokens processed, supporting multiple active client matters weekly.Built systems for: deposition and trial summary analysis with full case context applied, chronological extraction across letters, texts, emails, and court filings, automated as-built schedule generation from daily reports, and contradiction detection between facts and expert opinions across filings.Prior to AI focus: 17+ years in heavy civil and commercial construction. Lead estimator on joint venture design-build proposals exceeding $2.9B including a stay-cable bridge in California and light-rail projects across Hawaii and California. Integral role in a $374M global settlement on a major rail electrification project and a landmark dam raise mediation.Licensed Professional Engineer (CA, OR, WA). Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP).

Education

• Oregon State University

  Construction Engineering, Civil Engineering

  2001 — 2006