Jonathan Kanter is using AI to take on Big Tech

Former Justice Department Antitrust Division head Jonathan Kanter and former acting division chief Doha Mekki have launched FluxCap, a startup staffed with former DOJ staffers and Palantir engineers that sells an AI-based legal research and analysis tool to help plaintiffs build antitrust cases. The platform, built on proprietary technology and existing large language models, is trained to identify the facts and legal framework determining whether a case succeeds, find holes in attorneys' logic, and sift through discovery materials for signs of anticompetitive conduct. Kanter describes it as a "force multiplier" for enforcers, saying a small team gains the capacity of roughly "20-plus people working around the clock."