📝 ebubekirkupe pulls Mike out of the cloud and into Word 4 commits 15d ago draftinginfrastructure draft
This fork abandons the SaaS model and rebuilds Mike as a desktop app whose centrepiece is a Microsoft Word task pane.
ebubekirkupe/mike
ebubekirkupe is reimagining Mike as a desktop-first legal assistant that lives inside Microsoft Word.
This fork takes Mike in a sharply different direction: out of the browser, off the SaaS rails, and onto the lawyer's own machine. The centrepiece is a Microsoft Word task pane, wrapped in a desktop shell, with a local server doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
ebubekirkupe is the sole hand on the tiller so far. There's no public manifesto attached to the handle, but the shape of the work speaks clearly enough - this is someone who thinks legal AI belongs where lawyers already draft, not in a separate web app they have to context-switch into.
If you're curious whether a Word-native, locally-run Mike is viable, this is the fork to watch. It's early, but the direction is unambiguous.
What's in it
- Microsoft Word task pane The primary surface is an add-in that lives alongside the document a lawyer is actually working on.
- Desktop application shell Mike is repackaged as an installable desktop app rather than a hosted web service.
- Local-first architecture A local server runs on the user's machine, keeping the SaaS dependency out of the loop.
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ebubekirkupe pulls Mike out of the cloud and into Word
This fork abandons the SaaS model and rebuilds Mike as a desktop app whose centrepiece is a Microsoft Word task pane.