luccast takes mike fully offline, cloud and all

Most legal-AI tools assume a hosted database, cloud file storage, and a third-party model behind an API key. luccast's fork assumes none of that. The cloud database is swapped for one that lives in a single file on the machine itself, uploaded documents sit on the local disk, and sign-in is collapsed to a single built-in user - no accounts, no external service.

The model is the headline. Instead of calling out to a hosted provider, the fork points at a local AI engine running on the same box (tools like Ollama and LM Studio, which run open models on your own hardware). The interface even reads the local model's real name and hides the now-pointless API-key fields. luccast flags the database shim as the fragile part, but the local-model plumbing looks portable enough to bolt onto a normal deployment as a "bring your own model" option.