The Team
JDBlecher
Co-founder, lead scientist, and Special Counsel for CFIUS, ITAR, and dual-use export controls. Verification-Grade Software Architect. Author of the software stack behind the firm: Veracity Engine, Forge, Plaintiff Zero, and Inference Relay, over a million lines of production code that verify every citation, screen every component, and manage every inference. Co-designer of the BrashZero caseless firearm operating system, and architect of the legal and compliance framework that carries developing technologies across borders.
Education & Credentials
- ●New York Bar: 99th percentile; MPRE: 99th percentile
- ●New York Law Exam (NYLE): perfect score
- ●UC Berkeley School of Law Juris Doctor (2024)
- ●Previously ranked 4th at Florida State University College of Law, 4.036 GPA
- ●Book prizes in Constitutional Law and Legal Writing
- ●Prosser Prizes in Secured Transactions (Article 9) and Estates and Trusts
- ●Berkeley Law Business Certificate
- ●BS Biology, University of Florida: completed in two years, cum laude
- ●98th percentile nationally and 3rd in class on the National Biology Major Field Test
- ●Designed his own high school curriculum, with over twenty-five Advanced Placement courses
Software & Systems
- ●Sole architect of Veracity Engine: verification-grade legal intelligence platform. Automated citation verification, word-for-word quote verification, agentic workflows, zero-retention encrypted inference. 600,000+ lines of production code, on the order of NASA's Space Shuttle primary flight software
- ●Sole architect of Forge: supply-chain compliance verification engine. Screens every component in a bill of materials against 40 built-in regulatory regimes across 16 jurisdictions, returning per-component verdicts with complete evidence chains. 82,500 lines of production Rust. Every citation grounded word-for-word against canonical government publications. Every report signed with Ed25519 and independently verifiable
- ●Sole architect of Plaintiff Zero: specialized legal intelligence and automation platform for plaintiff and mass-tort firms, with 38 integrated capabilities spanning verified research, autonomous drafting, and privilege-grade security
- ●Built Inference Relay: distributed inference-compute routing, now a memory-safe Rust daemon with a dual-envelope architecture. Shifts computational liability from developer balance sheets to user subscriptions. Approximately 95% gross margins for developers. Absolute data sovereignty for users
- ●Built the software and cuas.app platform for Reckon, the AI fire-control optic and counter-drone system
- ●Built the firmware and website for Corso Kinetic, the onboard edge-compute platform for MotoGP-class racing motorcycles
- ●Co-designed BrashZero: a caseless firearm operating system using standard NATO-spec ammunition components, solving a problem nations and defense contractors spent 80 years and hundreds of millions of dollars failing to crack
- ●Firmware and embedded-systems development in Rust for real-time defense applications
Practice & Law
- ●Prior practice in mergers and acquisitions at a top V12 firm in New York
- ●Built the ITAR/EAR and CFIUS compliance framework for allied-nation precision-defense supply chains: Technical Assistance Agreements, DDTC registration, Technology Control Plans
- ●Dual-use software specialist
- ●Lived in five countries and five US states
APBlecher
Co-founder and general partner. Bayesian-Kalman Fusion Architect. Serial entrepreneur behind the highest multiple private exit in Pandora Jewelry's history. Inventor of the Reckon opto-thermal multimodal ecosystem incorporating the most advanced ballistic and counter-drone methodologies and creator of the allied-nation manufacturing pipeline that builds it.
Education & Credentials
- ●Engineering (Boston University), Physics (York University)
- ●JD, Osgoode Hall Law School: 1st place in US Securities Regulation, 1st place in Business Associations
- ●Admitted in New York. Passed the New York, California, and Ontario Bar Examinations
- ●M&A and Securities at Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York)
- ●Securities Law at Stikeman Elliott LLP (Toronto)
Engineering & Design
- ●Inventor and system designer across 107 technology groups, spanning counter-UAS, autonomous systems, sensor fusion, fire control, caseless ammunition, surgical and humanoid robotics, autonomous CNC machining, autonomous vehicles, intelligent agriculture, and motorsport
- ●Sole architect of the Reckon intelligent variable-magnification optic: optical design, sensor suite, AI/CV pipeline, Bayesian-Kalman fusion engine, mesh-networking architecture, and the multi-modal wind-estimation system that fuses pressure anemometry, mirage-read computer vision, and laser scintillation analysis into a single posterior crosswind probability distribution at 10 Hz
- ●Work spanning Kalman/IMM sensor fusion, digital signal processing, control theory, and applied cryptography across production systems
- ●Architect of the ITAR-free manufacturing pipeline distributing production across allied-nation facilities, with full IP ownership and design control retained
- ●Designed 12+ firearms from clean sheet, including the Mongoose and 1.36 systems (long-stroke piston, integrated retractable brace, interchangeable barrels, lightest and slimmest on the market)
- ●Co-designed BrashZero: a caseless firearm operating system using standard NATO-spec ammunition components, solving a problem nations and defense contractors spent 80 years and hundreds of millions of dollars failing to crack
- ●Expert in high-compression-ratio, thin-walled, high-pressure piston design
- ●CNC tool-path programming for parts at the limits of standard machining: small internal radii, extreme depths, tight tolerances
- ●Designed and manufactured prize-winning motorcycles
- ●Mechanical design since a young age; designed his first firearm at 14. SolidWorks, Fusion 360 CAD/CAM, Mastercam, photogrammetry scanning, additive manufacturing, and rapid prototyping
- ●Architect of Corso Kinetic's hardware and board design: the onboard edge-compute platform for racing motorcycles that fuses every sensor on the bike into traction control, grip prediction, body-position optimization, and per-component thermal management
Business & Practice
- ●Founded Reckon, Corso Kinetic, Blecher LLC, Flying Gun (X-Gun recoilless UAS weapons platform), and Blecher Precision (CNC R&D and prototyping)
- ●Hired by a leading defense-technology company of thousands of engineers to solve problems their own engineering teams could not
- ●Opened and operated multiple flagship Pandora Jewelry Concept Stores, including the first Pandora store in Houston
- ●Serial entrepreneur behind the highest multiple private exit in Pandora Jewelry's history
- ●Over 18 years in the jewelry industry spanning retail, manufacturing, and wholesale diamond business
- ●Specialist in arbitrage and market disruptions across multiple industries
Local Counsel
Jurisdiction-specific practitioners
Flat-fee, milestone-based. Jurisdiction-specific practitioners who review and sign every filing. Local counsel does not operate Veracity-Engine. Compensation is covered within the claim vehicle's legal-fee budget.