joelakaufmann-lgtm/mike-kaufmann

A personal rebrand of the open-source legal assistant, retuned to think like a Nevada-law practitioner by default.

Early days - three commits and a single recent push establish a clear focus, but momentum so far is light.

This is joelakaufmann-lgtm's take on Mike, narrowed from a generic US legal assistant down to a single jurisdiction: Nevada. Rather than answering as a broad national tool, it's been set up to reason about legal questions through a Nevada lens by default - a focused bet that a state-specific assistant is more useful to its owner than a do-everything one.

It's also a personal product, not just a private clone. joelakaufmann has put his own name on the project and rebranded it accordingly, while deliberately crediting the original Mike author - so you get a clear sense of who's behind it and where it came from.

The direction is straightforward and unhidden: take a solid open-source legal assistant, make it personal, and point it at Nevada. If you practice or research in that jurisdiction, it's worth a look. Click through to GitHub if you want the specifics.

What's in it

Nevada-first legal reasoning The assistant is tuned to approach questions as a Nevada-law tool by default, rather than as a generic national one.
Personal, named product Rebranded under joelakaufmann's own name - this reads as one practitioner's tool, not an anonymous fork.
Credits the original Goes out of its way to attribute the upstream Mike author, so the lineage is clear.

Direction

personasbranding

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.

📝 joelakaufmann-lgtm narrows Mike down to Nevada 1 commit 5d ago personas draft

This fork retargets the legal assistant from generic US law to a single state - Nevada - baked into how the AI thinks by default.

📝 joelakaufmann puts his name on Mike and points it at Nevada 2 commits 5d ago branding draft

A fork rebrands the open-source legal assistant as a personal, state-specific product - and goes out of its way to credit the original author.

Threads of work (detailed view)

2 threads have been distilled into posts.

joelakaufmann-lgtm narrows Mike down to Nevada

This fork retargets the legal assistant from generic US law to a single state - Nevada - baked into how the AI thinks by default.

personas

1 commit · latest 5d ago

joelakaufmann puts his name on Mike and points it at Nevada

A fork rebrands the open-source legal assistant as a personal, state-specific product - and goes out of its way to credit the original author.

branding

2 commits · latest 5d ago