zgbrenner is Americanizing Mike and calling him Gary

A new fork rebrands the open-source legal-AI codebase as a deliberately U.S.-focused tool named Gary.

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zgbrenner has taken Mike, the open-source legal-AI codebase, and started reshaping it into a U.S.-focused tool called Gary. The early work is about identity: the project gets a new name, the description spells out its American focus, and the British spellings scattered through the system get switched to American ones - including the field that records a user's organization.

The quieter win is for anyone hosting this themselves. The setup-and-configuration file, bare-bones in the original, has been rewritten into a clearly sectioned, plain-English guide - the kind of thing you can hand to a new self-hoster without a walkthrough.

So what Worth a look if you're weighing a U.S.-tuned Mike or planning to self-host one - but if you've connected anything to the user profile, check it first: the organization field's spelling changed, which can break older integrations.

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Commits in this thread

3 commits from zgbrenner/gary, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA Subject Author Date
713107d4 Update README.md Zack Brenner 2026-05-19 ↗ GitHub
d78c7a39 Update README.md Zack Brenner 2026-05-19 ↗ GitHub
4d7a09ce feat: localize for U.S. lawyers and rename to Gary Zack Brenner 2026-05-19 ↗ GitHub

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