techieanant unplugs Mike from the cloud

A new pull request lets the whole legal-AI stack run on a single self-hosted box with zero hosted vendors in the loop.

Out-of-the-box, Mike leans on hosted services for its database, login, and file storage. techieanant's contributor swaps each one for an open-source equivalent that runs inside Docker on the same machine - including a document converter so Word files still turn into PDFs without phoning home. A one-command bootstrap seeds the database, provisions the file store, and stands the stack up end to end.

Crucially, the login flow isn't shortcut around. The same authentication checks that ran against the hosted service now run against the local one, so per-user access rules behave identically. Two new deployment guides - one for a laptop, one for production - walk operators through it.

The pull request is open, not merged.