Empowering Excellence in Legal & Compliance
At bayshore, we combine legal expertise with state-of-the-art technology.
Our mission is to automate complex legal and compliance processes while maintaining the highest standards of safety, controllability, and reliability.
Driven by Renowned Experts
Paul F. Welter
Paul is a software developer and an admitted lawyer in Germany. He is responsible for research and development at bayshore. Besides, he serves as an Adjunct Law Professor at Florida State University, and as an Affiliate at CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. He graduated in law (with honors, both exams) in Cologne.
Philipp Wiegand
Philipp is a business strategist with a background in finance and innovation. He leads operations at bayshore. He has founded his first company at the age of 20, collaborating with TÜV, Siemens, Deloitte, and others. He graduated from TUM (with honors), and researched at Stanford's d.school.
Erik Krauter
Erik is a software developer with a background in robotics and artificial intelligence. He heads technology and infrastructure at bayshore. Previously, he worked as a fullstack developer at RobCo, a Sequoia-backed robotics company, and conducted AI research at ETH Zurich. He graduated from TUM in robotics (top 3% of his class).
On Rules and Harmony
As humans shifted from hunter-gatherer bands to settled agriculture, dense communities, surplus, and trade brought strangers together and demanded shared rules to secure order and harmony. Early city-states codified those duties and protections; from the Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu to Hammurabi’s stele pledging that the strong should not oppress the weak. Over millennia, societies, commerce, and technology layered complexity onto those codes, yielding the intricate legal systems we know today. Yet in many domains those rules now defeat their original purpose: they have grown so complex that organizations slow to a crawl, leaning on scarce experts and bureaucracy. The EU chamber of-commerce estimates the regulatory-compliance burden at 12.3% of the EU’s GDP. We believe a different path is possible: at bayshore, we make navigating complex rules seamless so societies can move forward with confidence. We are designing explainable, controllable, reliable AI that performs complex legal and compliance tasks in pursuit of a world where rules create harmony, not chaos; where compliance is effortless, automated, and never a barrier to ambition.