A self-hostable, firm-branded fork of Mike rebuilt around enterprise sign-in, local AI, and operator-grade deployment.
PIP is cpatpa's reshaping of Mike into something a law firm can actually run on its own terms. The fork is pitched at firm deployments: Microsoft Entra sign-in, an admin console that controls which AI providers and models are on offer, a one-command bare-metal installer, and a rebrand that lets each firm drop in its own colours and logos.
The work reads as deliberate and phased. cpatpa has been moving through a numbered roadmap - auth, database, sharing, workspaces, onboarding, local LLM, admin and account surfaces, persistent memory, document retention - and publishing design docs for what comes next: web search, groups, multi-model comparison, vector retrieval, and curated knowledge collections.
If you tried PIP today you'd land in a firm-shaped onboarding wizard, sign in through your corporate Microsoft account, and find an assistant that respects custom instructions, remembers things between chats, and runs on whichever models your admin has approved - including a fully local stack for offline-only deployments.
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Two features ship together: an assistant that remembers things between chats, and a prompt chain that actually respects the custom instructions the product has always pretended to read.
A design-doc dump that maps where this fork wants to take search, permissions, model comparison, retrieval, and document collections.
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 top-to-bottom rename of the upstream codebase, paired with an admin surface so a firm can swap in its own colours and logos without a code deploy.
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.
Piper Alderman's fork drops the org picker and free-tier label - what's left is just "who are you, and what can you do here?"
The installer now seeds a real admin account before anyone touches the app, replacing the old sign-up-and-get-promoted dance.
PIP now treats retention as a two-stage process so accidental purges are recoverable for a week.
Five phases of plumbing turn the fork into something a firm can run end-to-end on its own hardware.
A new signup wizard captures who the lawyer is, where they practice, and what they work on - before they ever touch the AI.
A workspaces concept lands in cpatpa's fork, letting groups inside a firm share projects, chats and reviews without spilling across the whole organisation.
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 full sign-in rebuild that lets enterprise users log in through their corporate Microsoft account - and quietly hardens the password flow while it's at it.
Three tightly scoped commits work through the bulk of the critical and high items flagged in the upstream security audit.