Josh Hedtke
Brooklyn, New York | jphedtke@gmail.com | 858-245-3748
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-hedtke/ | Website: https://joshuahedtke.com
Summary
- VC-backed legal tech founder - built and sold 0-to-1 patent search and litigation tech to top firms
- Machine learning engineer and product lead - built dialog agents and voice analytics for series A co.
- Stanford J.D. and M.S. in Computer Science with experience in federal court and at a leading litigation firm
Experience
Founder & CEO
May 2025 - May 2026
Common Counsel - Brooklyn, NY
Co-founder & CEO
Jan 2024 - May 2025
CarefulAI - Brooklyn, NY
- Raised $900K in institutional pre-seed funding and hired founding engineer
- Built patent search with best publicly available performance and patent litigation tools
- Generated $20K in revenue selling to top BigLaw firms and a public biotech co.
Product Team Lead
June 2022 - Aug 2023
Guava (FKA Gridspace) - Los Angeles, CA
- Led team of 5 (1 QA, 1 designer, 3 eng) responsible for developing the flagship voice analytics product
- Led product discovery and customer success for largest enterprise customer, a $3+M ARR account
Machine Learning Engineer
Sep 2020 - June 2022
Guava (FKA Gridspace) - Los Angeles, CA
- Led R&D and deployment of turn-taking model for customer-service dialog agents
- Developed voice analytics products used by thousands of highly regulated enterprise users
- Managed deployments and developed internal tooling
- Led integrations with voice tech supplier partners
Summer Associate
June 2018 - Aug 2018
Irell & Manella - Los Angeles, CA
Extern
June 2017 - Aug 2017
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California - San Diego, CA
Education
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- J.D., 2020
- M.S. Computer Science, 2020
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
B.S. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, 2015