A fork of Mike retooled for in-house EU counsel, with built-in workflows for NDAs, DPAs, AI Act addenda, and vendor intake.
Mike-InHouse is counselos' rework of Mike aimed squarely at in-house legal teams operating under EU and UK rules. Where upstream Mike leans toward transactional finance work, this fork swaps in five workflows that an in-house lawyer would actually open on a Tuesday morning: NDA review against a playbook, GDPR Article 28 DPA review, an EU AI Act vendor addendum check, an MSA red-flag memo, and vendor intake triage.
The README credits Will Chen and links back to upstream, so there's no pretence about origin - counselos is openly building a niche distribution on top of Mike's bones. Alongside the workflows, there are tabular-review presets tuned to the same audience (sub-processors, transfer mechanisms, AI Act roles) and a handful of production-defaults changes that suggest someone is thinking about running this in a real environment rather than just demoing it.
Directionally, this reads as a deliberate vertical play: take a capable general legal-AI tool and harden it into something an in-house EU counsel team could adopt without writing their own prompts. The branding shift to "Mike-InHouse" makes the positioning explicit.
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Five new built-in workflows aimed squarely at in-house counsel handling EU and UK work, layered on top of Mike's originals rather than replacing them.
The fork refuses to boot unless an operator sets a real signing key for download links.
Document text and filenames were quietly bleeding into stdout - and from there into backups and monitoring tools. counselos shut the tap.
Three new column presets turn tabular review into a fast-path for DPA and AI vendor checks.