Alt+Counsel: Practising with AI

You don't want another prompt engineering course. You want to understand what's actually happening when you use these tools — well enough that when the next wave arrives, you're not starting over. You're already ahead.

Most legal AI training teaches you how to write a prompt. This course teaches you how to read the system. That's the difference between following instructions and having intuition — between being competent with one tool and being effective with anything that comes next.

What you'll learn

The core lessons build an intuitive understanding of how AI systems work — not at a computer science level, but at the level that changes how you use every tool.

You'll learn why the same model behaves differently in different products. You'll learn what's in the context window, who put it there, and why that matters more than your prompt. You'll learn what changes when AI starts using tools and taking actions, not just generating text.

No other legal AI course teaches context management — understanding what information the model sees, who controls it, and how it shapes every output. This is the single most important concept for evaluating any AI tool, and it's invisible everywhere else.

The modules that follow apply this foundation to specific challenges — verification, agentic AI supervision, vibe coding, governance policy drafting, tool evaluation — each one grounded in the same approach.

Why this course

Understanding, not formulas. Prompt templates stop working when the tool changes. Systems knowledge transfers to everything.

Skills and governance together. The market splits in two: hands-on courses teach prompting and drafting but skip governance. Executive courses teach strategy and policy but skip the actual skills. This course does both — so you come away able to use AI effectively and set the rules for how your team uses it.

Covers what others skip.

• Systematic verification.
• Agentic AI supervision.
• Vibe coding.
• AI governance policy drafting.

These are the topics the profession needs most, and almost no training programme touches them.

Not a one-time event. New modules ship regularly — new tools, new developments, new applications. AI moves fast. A static course recorded in 2024 is already out of date.

Singapore regulatory context built in. If you practise in Singapore, the course is anchored to the MinLaw Guide, Professional Conduct Rules 2015, and the IMDA Agentic AI Framework. If you practise elsewhere, the core lessons and modules apply regardless of jurisdiction.

About me

I'm Hou Fu — a legal professional based in Singapore and the person behind Alt+Counsel. I've gone from writing three-page prompts to supervising autonomous agents, and each wave changed the techniques but the intuition transferred. I build open-source legal tech tools, write about AI from the practitioner's perspective, and figure out what actually works in real legal workflows. I submitted feedback on MinLaw's draft AI guide and saw both recommendations adopted in the final version. This course teaches what I've learned.

Pricing

A subscription gives you access to all core lessons, all modules (current and future), and all updates. University-affiliated AI courses for lawyers run USD 900 to 7,800 — and none of them cover context management, verification as a discipline, or agentic AI. This course does, at a fraction of that cost.