Led by a practitioner who has held every seat at the table.
Wasim is a corporate attorney and management consultant with over two decades of cross-border practice spanning M&A, venture capital, and financial services — including more than $7 billion in advised transactions and oversight roles across 100+ companies.
For the past several years his practice has centered on the AI frontier: designing evaluation frameworks for frontier legal LLMs and serving inside major AI training-data programs in every seat that matters — task creator, RLHF quality-control reviewer, benchmark auditor, and SME trainer. He has authored expert-level evaluation tasks rated at the highest complexity tiers, built and audited grading rubrics with 100+ weighted criteria, and written the onboarding guides used to bring other legal professionals onto live frontier-lab projects.
That last role is where The SME Standard began. The training materials he built for colleagues — rubric explainers, QC checklists, plain-language guides for brilliant lawyers who had never seen an annotation interface — worked. The school makes that standard available to everyone.
Wasim is also the founder of Fidem Praxis, an advisory firm at the intersection of counsel, strategy, and AI for regulated industries.