Dshamir is quietly closing the security holes everyone else inherited
A run spent cherry-picking upstream security fixes - including a way to hijack the AI through a booby-trapped filename.
A run spent cherry-picking upstream security fixes - including a way to hijack the AI through a booby-trapped filename.
This fork turns the cloud-dependent upstream into a turnkey package a firm can stand up in-house.
This fork tears out its Claude and Gemini support and standardizes on a single AI provider - OpenAI - for everything.
A set of planning documents lays out how this fork could grow from a single-server prototype into a scalable, extensible, optionally air-gapped system.
Three small backend additions, but the one that matters lets the team swap the encryption protecting users' stored API keys without ever taking the service offline.
The fork's biggest backend change rips out its dependence on one hosting vendor so the app can run on any standard database.
Six commits turn the fork's request handling into something you'd actually trust with client files.
The Canadian legal lookups in this fork look live, but they return canned, invented results.
The fork opens with a whole separate backend aimed at Canadian case law, citations, and data sovereignty - running alongside Mike rather than plugged into it.
A top-to-bottom rename and a fresh deploy setup turn one fork into its own branded product.
A small, portable fix to the rule deciding which website is allowed to talk to the fork's server - and a quiet config trap it closes along the way.
A short hosting experiment ended where it started: the heavy lifting stays on a conventional Node host, with only the front end living on the edge.
The biggest change in this fork swaps out how users sign in and where files live, so Gary can run without Cloudflare.
A single migration file rebuilds the entire Mike data model for Supabase - a head-start the upstream project never shipped.
The backend now runs entirely on Clerk and Supabase, so Gary can stand up end to end without any Cloudflare dependency.
The fork swaps its homegrown login system for Clerk so Gary can run as a private, password-protected web app.
This fork lets you point Mike's AI brain at almost any model provider, not just OpenAI.
A one-person guide to standing up this fork without leaking your secrets in the process.
A new deployment guide and friendlier setup errors turn standing up this fork into a genuine one-person job.
A single-user local build that swaps the AI plumbing, removes the login screen, and renames the product.
PIP shifts LLM configuration into a single admin console built for firm deployments.
A week-long bug hunt exposes what breaks when a fork runs purely on local AI with no cloud providers allowed.
A long arc of work turns a bare Ubuntu box into a running deployment with a single command - and the operator tools to keep it alive.
Most forks quietly drift from upstream. This one writes down exactly where it has drifted, and where it falls short.
File uploads now flow through short-lived URLs the backend hands out, so the browser never holds cloud credentials.
The installer now seeds a real admin account before anyone touches the app, replacing the old sign-up-and-get-promoted dance.
A tiny upload patch that quietly matters for any firm handling non-English documents.
The fork now stands up its full backend - database, file storage, and a local AI model - with a single docker command.
Louis rips out every AI provider except one and routes everything through Amazon.
Two services become one - the standalone backend is folded into the Next.js frontend, leaving one thing to deploy.
GordonOSS lands a per-source model-routing layer ahead of the connectors that will need it - and pins the rules with tests before anyone can break them.
The biggest single piece of fork divergence yet: a top-to-bottom database replatform onto AWS.
The fork swaps a hosted backend-as-a-service for plain Postgres plumbing so Mike can run on someone's own servers.
One of Mike's forks just swapped its entire backend foundation in a single afternoon.
A new provider lets the codebase run against models on your own machine, with no paid API key required.
A complete, opinionated path to running both halves of Mike on Fly.io - wired up to GitHub Actions and ready to import.
A wholesale re-platforming of the upstream Mike codebase onto an AWS-native stack, branded helix-tribune and pointed at UK users.
Five phases of plumbing turn the fork into something a firm can run end-to-end on its own hardware.
The fork swaps a quick-and-dirty list of email addresses for a real membership system - without breaking anything visible to users.
Nine commits, every database call rewritten, and a much sharper story on who can see what.
A fourth way to reach Claude - this time via AWS - for shops that already live there.
An optional toggle lets the app talk to Postgres directly while keeping the rest of the codebase none the wiser.
Three tightly scoped commits work through the bulk of the critical and high items flagged in the upstream security audit.
A single, sweeping commit re-platforms the entire stack from Cloudflare and Supabase onto AWS-native services.
A small but real bug fix: users were losing their first names between logins, and the fork has a clean three-part patch.
A scrappy re-architecture that runs an 86,000-chunk Kenyan law search engine on a free-tier server - and points at a pattern worth stealing.
Before adding features, this fork built the testing and guardrails most open-source legal-AI projects skip.
@juleskuehn pushed a deployment branch that takes the fork from local-only to actually hostable.
The fork swaps upstream's straightforward LLM-plus-tools setup for a full agent stack running on Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore.
Phase one of a rebrand swaps the prototype's bring-your-own-API-key model for a subscription, paywall, and trial - staged so any piece can be rolled back.
An almost-untouched fork of Mike whose only move so far is to nail down its open-source license terms.
A rebrand of Mike into AI-Legal: a self-hostable, multi-tenant legal-AI platform a firm can run on its own servers.
A legal-tech fork that throws out the multi-model approach and runs everything on OpenAI.
An early alpha repackaging of Mike under the threec.ai banner, with the plumbing being laid to get it deployed and live.
A contract-lifecycle product built on a tabular-review foundation, organised around counterparties and bulk intake, shipping under the legalos brand.
nforum's fork broadens Mike into a multi-provider, user-extensible legal AI platform with sharper safety guardrails.
A Canadian fork of Mike that keeps legal AI - and the client data behind it - on domestic, sovereign ground.
A focused fork of Mike that quietly fixes Chinese-language file handling so non-English documents actually make it through intake.
stakwork is turning Mike into an assistant you can run on your own hardware, with local inference and voice-driven chat.
A showcase fork that rebrands Mike as Michi, deploys it on Cloudflare, and grounds its answers in real Swiss case law.
An early-stage fork from jodcodes that's quietly wiring up nightly automation before the real product direction shows.
A personal rebrand of the open-source legal assistant, retuned to think like a Nevada-law practitioner by default.
A finance-focused fork of Mike, reborn as Gordon - an AI analyst built for deal diligence, spreadsheets, and paid-data research.
younglah's quiet rebuild of the Mike demo into Helinox's private, sign-in-only internal legal tool.
sean-a-ward's fork loosens Mike's leash on model providers, letting you swap in OpenRouter, LiteLLM, LM Studio, and friends.
heaventree is quietly rebuilding Mike on a Supabase foundation, starting with the data model the upstream project never published.
An early-stage zevra-tech fork of Mike focused on smoothing out the contributor setup story.
An early-stage fork of Mike focused almost entirely on getting the app deployed and locked down, not yet on new legal features.
Gary is a U.S.-focused rebrand of Mike - an open-source legal AI assistant recast for American lawyers and built to self-host on its own.
mrihains has rebranded Mike as OpenLex, stripping the demo framing and legal-advice guardrails in favor of a bring-your-own-API-key pitch.
foolish-bandit is reshaping Mike into Gary, a lawyer-facing private AI workspace with guided lanes for reviewing, drafting, and explaining legal text.
vincentbirot is reshaping Mike into Lex Nova, a legal-practice assistant that speaks the language law firms actually use.
A rainylabs fork of Mike rewiring the platform onto Auth0, Heroku, and AWS - an infrastructure play more than a product pivot.
A Mike fork from @cphlabspace focused on making the project deployable as a real public site rather than a local-only build.
pkbtran rebuilds Mike as marketingOS, swapping the legal-AI shell for a marketing assistant backed by a library of playbooks.
amaingot is rebuilding Mike on AWS-native infrastructure, swapping out the original Cloudflare and Supabase foundations for an Amazon stack.
A self-hostable, firm-branded fork of Mike rebuilt around enterprise sign-in, local AI, and operator-grade deployment.
A lightly-tuned Mike fork from kevmurr, nudging the storage layer toward broader S3-compatible deployments.
Davemaina1 is reshaping Mike into Iroh, a Claude-powered legal assistant grounded in Kenyan law and tuned to run on a free-tier budget.
An Australian-law-focused fork of Mike, rebranded as Dennis OSS and tuned for Aussie legal practice.
A European-law twist on Mike: a rebranded chat that consults EUR-Lex before it answers.
An early-stage rebrand of Mike into MatrixAI, hinting at a distinct product identity under the contractCouncil handle.
A Traditional Chinese rebrand of Mike, reframed as Donna for a Taiwanese audience by solo maintainer jerry871009.
lingjiechen2's private rebrand of Mike, retooled around Azure and stripped down for a single user under the name Johann.
punyaslokdutta is reworking Mike so it runs on a laptop or your own hardware, with Supabase taking over the storage and database layer.
A solo-founder pivot turning Mike into Juridisk - a Norwegian legal-AI assistant aimed at small businesses priced out of hiring a lawyer.
A security-and-reliability-focused fork of Mike, where bmersereau is methodically hardening the backend one quiet footgun at a time.
A full AWS rebuild of Mike, rebranded as Louis, with metered usage, agent skills, and a polished chat surface for legal work.
hosman20 is turning Mike into a paid B2B SaaS for Middle East law firms - paywalled, subscription-funded, and visually rebuilt as a polished product.
pixelysg is reshaping Mike's plumbing so it runs cleanly on Cloudflare, talks straight to Postgres, and reaches Claude through Amazon Bedrock.
NavpreetSSidhu's fork of Mike is in the wiring-up phase, focused on getting the app live on Vercel rather than reshaping the product.
A Justice Canada engineer is wiring Mike up to actually run somewhere - devcontainer in, Fly.io out.
LevelFive-Studio rebrands Mike as Helix Tribune and replants it on an AWS-native stack pointed at UK users.
An early-stage fork of Mike where hreiten is rebuilding the foundation around their own preferred stack before adding new direction.
A lightly explored fork of Mike where qbikmuzik615 has stashed a couple of prototype idea bundles, but hasn't yet started reshaping the product itself.
PasqualeMuraca is packaging Mike for self-hosting, aiming squarely at small firms that want to run it on their own server.
Altien is rebuilding Mike as a tenant-portable Azure deployment, with the option to run it entirely on your own laptop.
GIVENALITY is rebranding Mike as Leksa, a Tanzanian-flavoured legal assistant grounded in local statute law.
clapointe-carbonleo is forking Mike into CarbonIQ, an internal AI tool for Carbonleo running on Vercel behind a Supabase sign-in.
A lightly diverged fork of Mike where @b1rdmania is smoothing the on-ramp for new contributors to a legal-AI codebase.
hoogvliets is bringing a private downstream Mike build back into the open, one reviewable slice at a time.
A lightly-customized Mike fork by geoffdavies-dt, wired up to run on Azure-hosted OpenAI deployments instead of the default OpenAI service.
techieanant is reshaping Mike into a self-hosted legal-AI stack that runs entirely on your own hardware, no cloud vendors required.
brauliogusmao is reshaping Mike into a Portuguese-speaking, whitelabel-ready legal AI that can run entirely on a firm's own hardware.
easterbrooka is reshaping Mike into a Microsoft-friendly, AWS-deployable legal AI under a new name - Michelle.
CaliLuke is rebranding Mike into Luke - a local-first, single-user AI workbench aimed squarely at running a job search.
A Danish-law spin on Mike: primary-source retrieval with inline citations, plus a tighter backend behind user data.
Lef-F is hardening Mike for self-hosted use, pulling in upstream fixes and shipping a one-command stack firms can run themselves.
DWKIM24 is laying Korean-language groundwork for a Mike fork, starting with architecture before code.
ecarjat's fork is hardening Mike into a deployable product for KairosVista - domain-locked sign-in, self-hosted ops, and document review that handles real-world inputs.
A Rule26-hosted instance of Mike, being wired into an existing AI infrastructure stack as a sibling service.
rmerk is rebuilding Mike into a Minnesota-anchored medical-malpractice records engine for med-mal reviewers.
rafal-fryc is reshaping Mike into a portable, single-user desktop app for legal work - with workflows that travel between instances.
A European fork shaping Mike into a self-hostable, multilingual appliance that law firms can run inside their own walls.
ebubekirkupe is reimagining Mike as a desktop-first legal assistant that lives inside Microsoft Word.
An AGPL-flagged fork of Mike from LEXCEPTIO, with quiet groundwork rather than a public product pitch yet.
rglauco is reworking Mike into a fully self-hostable legal AI, free of cloud dependencies for teams that need to keep everything in-house.
Mace-legal is teaching Mike to read like a lawyer - picking up on tracked changes and redlines that other AI tools quietly ignore.
davidchtchian is wiring a French-language interface into Mike, an early step toward making the legal assistant usable beyond English-speaking practices.
A Mike fork that kushbavaria is positioning as a hosted, single-firm deployment for Ornn.
A Swiss legal assistant fork of Mike, rebranded as BetterCallMitCH, with local LLM support, canton-aware workflows, and four-language UI.
Jeroen1991z is turning Mike into MikeNL - a Dutch-localised legal assistant with native case law search and a citation reader built in.
beautech-aero is hard-forking Mike into Turbine Legal, a vertical command center for aviation-leasing lawyers.
juanjo is unbundling Mike from Supabase, rebuilding it on a self-hostable local stack you can run on your own machine.
A cautious, lawyer-friendly take on Mike that treats privileged material as the default, not the exception.
A containerized on-ramp for Mike, aiming to replace fiddly local setup with a single command.
A lawyer-led polish of Mike's onboarding, aimed at making the open-source project approachable for non-engineers who want to try it.
Chris-o-O is building out Mike into a multi-tenant legal assistant with team personas and a broader choice of AI models.
A fork wiring Mike into Turkey's core legal databases - Yargıtay, Danıştay, Emsal, and Anayasa Mahkemesi - for Turkish-practice research.
A proposed security hardening pass for Mike that never landed upstream, with no further public divergence from kveton.
Chris-o-O is reshaping Mike into a multi-tenant legal assistant with model choice, semantic document search, and per-firm personas.
An early-stage fork from Azharsadique that bundles deployment scaffolding, an Azure-backed model provider, and the beginnings of IP analytics.
mglynnhenley is bolting a hallucination meter onto Mike, scoring every AI answer and showing users where to squint.
wearefaces is widening Mike's AI backbone, plugging in more model providers and tooling so the assistant isn't tied to a single vendor.
An Azure-native rebuild of Mike aimed squarely at Australian legal practice, with AustLII case law wired in from the start.
nwhitehouse is turning Mike into Olava - a hosted legal-AI product for a hand-picked roster of law firms, built around tabular document review and a self-hosted reasoning model.
N9ALV is repurposing Mike from a legal-AI assistant into an investment research and wealth-planning workspace.
jellz77's fork of Mike adds on-prem LLM support via Ollama, opening the door to fully self-hosted deployments.
A security-minded look at Mike's baseline instructions, probing the prompt for leakage, PII extraction, and tool misuse.
A Mike fork from idukeric that opens the door to a much wider catalog of language models by adding OpenRouter alongside the built-in Claude and Gemini options.
A documentation-first sketch from amiel-35 for portable legal workflow packs that could travel between Mike deployments.
A fork of Mike retooled for in-house EU counsel, with built-in workflows for NDAs, DPAs, AI Act addenda, and vendor intake.
A quiet fork of Mike with one proposed tweak to document upload, swiftly withdrawn - not much to see yet.
A redline-aware fork of Mike that keeps tracked changes and reviewer comments visible to the LLM instead of flattening them away.
Diabolarius is taking Mike off Supabase and onto a self-hosted stack you can run from a single Docker compose file.
ZachLaik is reshaping Mike into an extensible platform where users plug in their own AI tools without writing code.
A near-mirror of Mike from turpaultn, with just enough housekeeping to keep installs working on current tooling.
CaseMark's kveton rebuilds Mike on the Case.dev platform and ships it as a hosted, BYOK-friendly public demo.
MuseLegal is reshaping Mike into a law-firm portal, where a public-facing storefront fronts a permissioned workspace for clients, attorneys, and paralegals.
simkjels is broadening Mike's AI backbone and steadying its install story - a quiet, infrastructure-leaning fork.
A local-first take on Mike that swaps cloud dependencies for a filesystem-backed setup you can run entirely on your own machine.
A self-hostable Mike that runs entirely on your own machine, with an easy switch to share it publicly via a Cloudflare Tunnel.
A firm-hosted spin on Mike that swaps personal API keys for a centralized AWS Bedrock deployment.
An early-stage personal fork of Mike from ttan, currently limited to backend toolchain housekeeping.
jpbreda floated giving Mike a self-hosted inference option, but the fork itself hasn't moved past the upstream baseline.
A self-hosted take on Mike, packaging the whole stack for teams that want to run it on their own infrastructure.
A solo rebrand-in-progress called "unburdn law," still riding close to upstream Mike with infrastructure housekeeping as the visible work so far.
luccast is reshaping Mike into a single-user desktop app that runs entirely on your own machine, no cloud required.
A Databricks-native rebuild of Mike, staged alongside the original app so the legal-review workflow can migrate without losing the existing one.
A legal-research fork wiring Mike into a broad mix of jurisdictional case-law databases, with citations you can actually trust.
promptly3518's fork is a quiet, deploy-focused take on Mike that's being shipped to Render and Vercel while kept out of search engines.
A near-stock Mike fork from Metbcy, distinguished mainly by a quiet but important security tightening around download links.
An early-stage rebrand of Mike under the name Attoray, with no functional divergence from upstream yet.
An early-stage fork rebranding Mike as Bobby, with light scaffolding changes but no clear product direction yet.
Furious-Industries is repackaging Mike as a fully self-hosted stack you can stand up on your own Linux box, no cloud dependencies required.
A fork of Mike that broadens the AI model lineup, giving users a third provider option alongside the existing two.
sid-swirl is shaping Mike into a connected legal assistant that reaches beyond its own document store into the firm's wider filing systems.
A lightly-touched fork of Mike where ryanmcdonough is tightening up authorization around chats and project access.
A lightly customized Mike fork from X-File-City, wired up as a guided demo for their File City code-visualization tool.
A small, security-minded fork of Mike from abbyshekit, focused on tightening the backend rather than reshaping the product.
A very early fork of Mike from daviesmurimi-ctrl, so far limited to trimming the README's licensing notice.
A Mike fork from WilliamACLove that's been hardening the backend so one law firm's clients can't see another's.
umerkay's fork wires Mike up to live web research, giving the assistant a way to fetch, search, and crawl pages on demand.
AM Collective's in-house legal AI: a self-deployed Mike fork running internally on Claude Opus 4.7 for the firm's lawyers.
fabiotaroc's fork of Mike adds OpenAI as a third LLM backend, giving operators a choice beyond Claude and Gemini.
BradyOnTech's fork of Mike is, so far, a quiet relicensing experiment rather than a product shift.
An air-gapped build of Mike - the same legal-document workspace, retooled to run entirely inside your own walls.
An effectively untouched fork of Mike - aminaouazzae has so far only run a GitHub auth smoke test.
A nascent rebrand of Mike under the banner of "AI Legal Platform" - currently more a name change than a product pivot.
A CrowdJustice fork of Mike sparked by a LinkedIn post, with almost no divergence from upstream yet.
A rebranded Mike called Patronus, with OpenAI added alongside the existing model providers and a tighter Supabase deployment story.
A LegalAIDev-maintained fork of Mike focused on getting the app reliably deployed on Railway's hosting platform.