Mace-legal/mike

Mace-legal is teaching Mike to read like a lawyer - picking up on tracked changes and redlines that other AI tools quietly ignore.

Early days - one focused thread of work in the first couple of days since MikeWatch picked the fork up, with a push as recently as yesterday.

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This fork of Mike, maintained by Mace-legal, is focused on a problem any practising lawyer will recognise: when an AI reads a contract, it usually sees the clean text and misses the markup that actually carries the negotiation. Tracked changes, margin comments, coloured redlines on a PDF - that's where the real conversation lives, and most assistants flatten it away.

Mace-legal's answer is to feed all of that straight into the model's view of a document. Word's tracked changes and comments come through; PDFs marked up with coloured redlines do too. The reader gets to ask the AI questions about a document as it really is, not a sanitised version of it.

The direction here is narrow and pointed rather than broad: less a general-purpose rebrand, more a serious attempt to make Mike usable for contract and document review work where redline fidelity is the whole game.

What's in it

Tracked changes awareness Word documents come in with their tracked edits intact, so the AI can reason about what's being proposed, not just the final text.
Margin comments in scope Reviewer comments attached to a Word doc are surfaced alongside the body, giving the assistant the full negotiation thread.
Colour-coded PDF redlines PDFs marked up with coloured redlines are parsed as redlines - not as flat text with mysterious highlights.

Direction

contract-reviewdrafting

Activity

Themed changes and pull requests touching this fork, newest first. Themed changes that haven't been turned into a public post yet still appear — they're real work even without a published writeup.

📝 Mace-legal teaches Mike to read redlines 1 commit 16d ago contract-reviewdiscovery draft

The fork now surfaces tracked changes and margin comments from Word and color-coded PDF redlines straight into the AI's view of a document.

✅ #1 feat: add redline-aware document extraction 16d ago self by JonasBoury ↗ analysis ↗ GitHub

## Summary

📝 Mace-legal teaches Mike to read the red ink 0 commits — contract-reviewdiscovery draft

Tracked changes, deletions, and reviewer comments now reach the assistant instead of being scrubbed at the door.

Threads of work (detailed view)

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Mace-legal teaches Mike to read redlines

The fork now surfaces tracked changes and margin comments from Word and color-coded PDF redlines straight into the AI's view of a document.

contract-reviewdiscovery

1 commit · latest 16d ago

Mace-legal teaches Mike to read the red ink

Tracked changes, deletions, and reviewer comments now reach the assistant instead of being scrubbed at the door.

contract-reviewdiscovery

Pull requests (detailed view)

1 PR touch this fork — inbound (filed against it) or outbound (filed from it). State icons match the editorial dashboard.

✅ Merged (1)

✅ merged · #1 feat: add redline-aware document extraction

by JonasBoury · opened 16d ago · merged 16d ago

Mace-legal/mike ← Mace-legal/mike · self · ↗ analysis · ↗ GitHub