Mike: open-source legal AI

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TLDR

  • Self-hostable, open-source legal AI with Harvey/Legora feature parity: document chat, tabular review, and reusable workflows, funded only by your own API keys.

Key Takeaways

  • Plug in Claude or Gemini keys directly; zero per-seat licensing, you pay only model API costs.
  • Matter-scoped Projects keep full context across all documents and conversations in a single workspace.
  • Tabular review extracts data from hundreds of documents in parallel, with every cell cited to a page and verbatim quote.
  • Workflows let firms save CP checklists, credit agreement summaries, and change-of-control reviews as one-click templates.
  • Self-hosted deployment means documents never leave your perimeter, keeping privilege, residency, and compliance controls intact.

Hacker News Comment Review

  • The one substantive comment is sharply skeptical: a tester found document search non-functional and the product closer to a minimal CRM with a chatbot than a real legal AI.
  • No community rebuttal or corroborating praise appeared, leaving the gap between the marketing claims and actual capability unaddressed in this thread.

Notable Comments

  • @gamblor956: “This isn’t a legal AI. It’s just a minimalistic CRM with an AI chatbot” – document search failed on test upload; recommends actual legal practice SaaS with agentic features instead.

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