Self-hostable, open-source alternative to Harvey and Legora; bring your own Claude or Gemini API keys, zero license cost.
Key Takeaways
Ships matter-scoped project workspaces, tabular document extraction with verifiable citations, and reusable workflow templates for CP checklists and credit agreement reviews.
Documents stay inside your own infrastructure; compliance, data residency, and privilege remain under firm control.
Prompt construction, citation parsing, and data flow are fully auditable in the open codebase.
Hosted option available alongside self-deploy; business model is API cost pass-through only, no per-seat pricing.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters quickly clarified Mike is a legal workflow UI wrapping Claude/Gemini, not a fine-tuned legal model – important distinction for buyers expecting domain-specific training.
The US v. Heppner ruling on AI and attorney-client privilege surfaced as a concrete legal risk; self-hosting with local LLMs was floated as the mitigation, but no definitive answer exists yet.
Repo maturity is an open question; early commenters noted the marketing site is well ahead of the codebase, suggesting revisiting in weeks rather than deploying now.
Notable Comments
@xrd: Raises structural billing conflict – if AI compresses paralegal hours, how do firms maintain revenue without renegotiating partner economics entirely.
@paultopia: Questions how bring-your-own-key architecture meaningfully addresses confidentiality if data still transits Anthropic or Google infrastructure.
