The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that former Shopify chief technology officer Jean-Michel Lemieux has joined one of Canada's fastest-growing tech companies, legal AI software vendor Spellbook. The Globe's Sean Silcoff writes that this time, Mr. Lemieux is not taking the CTO title with the St. John's-based company, but rather "executive individual contributor." Employees call him "executive skipper." It's a new type of role that the 55-year-old Mr. Lemieux said is better suited to the realities of building AI-native companies. Those modern companies develop software at a more rapid pace than in the past and their bottlenecks are the speed of decision-making and co-ordination. Mr. Lemieux, who invested in Spellbook and began advising the company last year, will build an "AI-first operating system" for the company. Mr. Lemieux will act as a cross-functional technical operator who will have his fingers in product, engineering, go-to-market activities and internal systems. Spellbook, backed by Khosla Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Inovia Capital and others, was an early entrant in the generative AI field, launching its tool for lawyers in 2022. Spellbook is incorporated as Dialog Enterprises Inc.