Personal home base

This is my personal webpage, in case you're interested in me.

I'm Aaron Shechet. I'm a lawyer, builder, amateur jazz pianist, and founder of Veilgrid. The things here do not all fit into one neat category, but they are all mine.

Current work Background

Short version

Not a resume. A few threads that explain the page.

2008

We started the law firm right out of law school.

My wife and I opened Chandler & Shechet in 2008. A lot of what I know about systems came from building a practice while doing the work every day.

Law

The cases taught me to respect the part that has to be judged.

Litigation, general counsel work, contracts, appellate practice, expert-witness work, my litigation strategy book, and arguing at the California Supreme Court all point to the same lesson: tools help, but judgment still owns the final mile.

2023

The AI work started as a practical problem.

Right after I finished cancer treatment, I came back to real legal work that still had to move. I needed systems that could organize complexity without pretending human review no longer mattered.

Now

Veilgrid is infrastructure for trusted AI entrepreneurship.

Veilgrid helps entrepreneurs, operators, and SaaS businesses turn expertise into governed, revenue-ready AI products without custom engineering every time.

Also

And then there is jazz piano.

The jazz method is a different branch of the same impulse: make a complicated discipline more playable, one small repeatable pattern at a time.

What lives here

Four paths, one way of thinking.

Veilgrid

Infrastructure for trusted AI entrepreneurship

This is the platform company I am building now. Veilgrid helps entrepreneurs, operators, and SaaS businesses turn expertise into governed, revenue-ready AI products without rebuilding the whole stack.

Overview Visit Veilgrid

Jazz Piano Method

For people who want to play jazz piano pretty good.

A printable, muscle-memory-first method for pianists who can play, but freeze when the lead sheet says Dm7, G7, or Cmaj7.

The Aaron Shechet Amateur Jazz Method for Piano cover

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Law

Law, strategy, and practical judgment

Most of my professional life has been law: litigation, general counsel work, business problems, contracts, appellate work, a California Supreme Court argument, and a litigation strategy book.

Details Chandler & Shechet

About Aaron

Why these things are on the same page

This is not meant to be a brand funnel. It is a personal map of the main things I have made, practiced, written, or am still trying to figure out.

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Nearly 20 years law, litigation, business, operations, and systems

Appellate work including California Supreme Court experience

General counsel contracts, risk, healthcare operations, and governance

Builder AI workflows, platform infrastructure, books, and learning systems

Veilgrid

Operator brands should own the customer relationship.

Veilgrid provides the infrastructure for trusted AI entrepreneurship. It is not the operator; it is the platform that lets entrepreneurs, operators, and SaaS businesses package, sell, govern, and operate AI-enabled products without rebuilding identity, permissions, billing, demos, governance, and deployment from scratch.

Entrepreneurs and operator brands own the customer relationship.
Veilgrid handles the trust, runtime, billing, demo, provisioning, and delivery rails behind the scenes.
ShechetAI is the flagship operator built on Veilgrid.
Certified EAIP gives the ecosystem a standards and certification vocabulary.

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Jazz Piano Method

A free printable method for amateur jazz piano.

Most jazz books start with knowledge. This method starts with the hands: roots, guide tones, shells, rhythm, simple melody, and tiny drills that build the muscle memory most books assume you already have.

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Law

Law keeps the systems grounded.

My legal background is part of why the AI work is oriented around review, risk, records, and professional responsibility. It is also why I care about clear writing, practical judgment, and workflows that make a hard job easier without pretending the hard part disappeared.

If you are here for legal or professional work, Chandler & Shechet is the law-firm path. For broader professional systems work, email is the simplest starting point.

Chandler & Shechet Email Aaron

Background

A little background.

I've spent most of my career as a lawyer. Right out of law school, my wife and I started our law firm in 2008. Since then, the work has included litigation, general counsel work, business problems, contracts, risk, and real-world disputes where language and judgment matter, including a California Supreme Court case. I also served as an expert witness on attorney-fee and retainer issues in Phil Spector v. Robert Shapiro. I also wrote Skipping the Learning Curve, a litigation-strategy book about avoiding avoidable mistakes.

In 2023, I was diagnosed with a rare cancer. Right after I finished treatment, I still had to get back to a demanding legal practice. That was the practical origin of my AI work: not fascination with chatbots, but a need for tools that could help organize complexity, preserve review, and keep real work moving.

That path eventually became ShechetAI, and then Veilgrid: infrastructure for people who want to turn expertise into governed, revenue-ready AI products under their own brands.

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