Get To Know Our Founder & CEO
Meet Renee Jackson: Pioneering AI Mediation
Dyspute.ai was founded by Renee Jackson. Renee grew up in a blue collar family outside of Boston, played college basketball at Columbia University, and then cut her teeth as a litigation paralegal at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. She earned a JD/MBA from the University of Connecticut, trained in employment law and litigation at Nixon Peabody, and then took her legal skills in-house to Zynga, Splunk, Wish, and Clutter. Renee held several executive roles in Legal, HR, and Compliance before becoming a founder.
After over a decade in the Bay Area, she now lives a quieter life in New Hampshire with her partner and their dogs. She teaches Negotiations to business school students at the University of New Hampshire and runs Blue Oak Legal, a small law firm specializing in employment law, commercial contracting, tech transactions, product compliance, corporate compliance, dispute resolution, and investigations.
Inspiration For Dyspute.ai
Renee's unique experience and acute understanding of the challenges faced by individuals and businesses trying to access the legal system sparked the concept behind Dyspute.ai. As a first-time entrepreneur, Renee is actively involved in the continuous development of Dyspute.ai, relying on a close-knit group of advisors to refine and enhance its offerings and capabilities.
Her vision for Dyspute.ai is clear: to revolutionize the way we resolve common legal disputes by harnessing the power of AI and making mediation accessible and affordable for all. Join us in exploring the future of dispute resolution, led by one of the most forward-thinking founders in the industry.
Get to Know Our Co-Founder & COO
Meet Frank Goldberg: Seasoned IP Attorney
Frank Goldberg is an Intellectual Property and Litigation attorney with over 20 years’ experience advising all types of companies, from tech startups to Fortune 500 stalwarts. Frank’s in-house experience includes IP leadership and counseling roles at Clorox, Wish, Zynga, and Gap. Frank started his legal career as a Litigation & Trademark Associate at Cooley LLP.
Over his career, Frank has advised on patent, trademark, copyright, and general IP issues, including clearance, filing strategies, marketing, product, licensing, open source, and domain names. Frank also has deep experience with domestic and international IP disputes, including both litigation and pre-litigation matters. Frank graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law and earned an undergraduate degree in Government from Cornell University. Outside of work, he’s a songwriter, keyboardist, bass player, and Business Manager for the pop-rock/electro-pop duo Moxxy Jones.
Why Frank Joined Dyspute.ai
Through the thousands of disputes Frank has resolved in his career, he has always understood that the best resolutions come from specific, clear, and deliberate communications focused on the parties’ true interests. Whether a dispute involves the simple removal of content from a website, or a demand to change core technology in internationally distributed products, the same principle holds true: the best outcome often comes only after each side presents its case clearly, articulates what matters most to them, and hears the other side’s position.
Frank was attracted to Dyspute.ai because of its mission to provide a fair, efficient, and cost-effective way to resolve different types of legal disputes. While some disputes simply cannot be resolved without going to court, Frank recognized that Dyspute.ai can help in the vast majority of cases by empowering individuals and businesses–whether or not they have any legal training–to try to resolve conflicts on their own. Frank was also excited to join long-time colleague and friend, Renee Jackson, in helping develop Adri, the first generation of AI-mediation tools.
Get to Know Our AI Mediator
Meet Adri: Your Tireless AI Mediator
Adri is the dedicated artificial intelligence mediator that powers Dyspute.ai. Conceived by our co-founders and built by a team of expert technologists, Adri is more than a feature; Adri is a core member of our team, designed to bring decades of litigation and mediation insight to every case, making resolution faster, smarter, and more accessible.
Adri's Role in Resolution:
- Always Available: Adri delivers 24/7 Asynchronous Mediation, allowing parties to negotiate and advance their dispute forward on their own schedule, eliminating scheduling bottlenecks entirely.
- Intelligent & Neutral: Serving as a neutral third party, Adri analyzes the core interests and positions of both sides, using proprietary algorithms to generate fair, data-driven settlement proposals.
- The Facilitator: Adri's adaptive chat interface and guided mediation process ensures communication is clear, focused, and productive, actively facilitating engagement and momentum where traditional methods often fail.
- Personalized & Neutral: To ensure comfort and neutrality, users can choose Adri's avatar from a selection of eight diverse options, selecting the representation that best resonates with them personally.
Adri ensures that everyone has access to professional, affordable dispute resolution. Adri does not take sides; Adri only works tirelessly toward a swift, mutual resolution.
Adri is trained on the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators and the ICODR's ODR Standards. This ensures your mediation is built on the same principles of impartiality, confidentiality, and fairness used by professional human mediators.