Mike: open-source legal AI

kernalix7•38 minutes ago

Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.

syntaxing•about 2 hours ago

I always wondered if Justin Kan’s Atrium closed door prematurely by just 2-3 years. It would have been cool to see a “technology” driven law firm and how it would have adjusted to LLMs.

sandreas•about 1 hour ago

Cool project. What a pity it's not mikefoss.com, would match the soundex of Mike Ross from suits even better ;-)

wps•about 2 hours ago

This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?

NamlchakKhandro•about 1 hour ago

It's called "We just discovered Claude Code and so we think Anthropic is Amazing so everything they do is godlike and thus their design choices must also be god like. Apple is Dead, Long Live Anthropic" style.

anon373839•27 minutes ago

Hm, I don't think this looks like Anthropic's design style. Anthropic is kind of doing a Chobanicore + Corporate Memphis design system that I personally find kind of creepy. But the website here just feels fresh and pleasant.

anon373839•about 2 hours ago

Agreed; that's a beautiful site. The main design style apart from minimalism that I notice is glassmorphism. Well, that and a very well chosen Monet to set the tone.

re_spond•about 2 hours ago

Cool initiative. Is this fully separate from "legal Mike", the Dutch company that provides a similar solution, https://legalmike.ai/product/ ?

That may be confusing on the naming.

scosman•about 2 hours ago

2 commits, 8 hours old....

albertgoeswoof•about 2 hours ago

And yet 130 stars

m4rkuskk•about 1 hour ago

No way they got that many stars in that little time. buy.fans must run a special right now.

albertgoeswoof•about 2 hours ago

How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?

gamblor956•about 3 hours ago

This isn't a legal AI. It's just a minimalistic CRM with an AI chatbot that wasn't able to actually search the (test) documents that I uploaded to the test account or do any sort of meaningful analysis.

You're better off paying for an actual Legal Practice SaaS with agentic features if you really want to use AI. But to be honest, if you're a lawyer you're better off not fooling around with half-assed AI.

Mike: open-source legal AI

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