dropthejase rebrands Mike as Louis, with a wink to Suits fans

A cosmetic but thorough rename - the product is now Louis, and the loading messages quote Louis Litt.

branding

dropthejase has swapped every user-facing mention of Mike for Louis across the product and documentation, and given the thinking-phase placeholder text a personality transplant: the strings now riff on Louis Litt, the prickly senior partner from the legal drama Suits. The repository's own remote has been moved to match.

It's a shallow rename by design. Internal code still carries the old Mike-era names, so this is branding paint rather than an architectural fork. For anyone considering a white-label of their own, dropthejase's pass is a handy inventory of exactly which strings a serious rebrand has to touch - and a reminder that the bits users never see can safely be left alone.

So what Worth a glance for any firm or vendor planning to white-label a Mike fork under their own brand - it's a ready-made checklist of the user-visible surface.

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4 commits from dropthejase/louis, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`d416d4ff`	chore(frontend): rename app from Mike to Louis in all user-facing text	Jason Lee	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`8f7a17d9`	chore(frontend): replace thinking phrases with Louis Litt Suits references	Jason Lee	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`8b1f5a46`	Update docs and git remote for Louis rename	Jason Lee	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
commit body - README.md: fix AuthStack table entry (remove stale pre-token-gen / post-deletion Lambda references) - docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: full rewrite to reflect completed Aurora migration (remove all Supabase references, add DatabaseStack, updated agent/auth/security sections) - docs/ORIGINAL-FUNCTIONALITY.md: mark post-deletion Lambda as removed - aws-migration-notes.md: update to completed migration summary - git remote: updated to https://github.com/dropthejase/louis.git
`373f2cc3`	chore: delete dead chatTools/credits, update README (Mike→Louis, Finch steps, agent paths)	Jason Lee	2026-05-09	↗ GitHub

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