zgbrenner renames Mike to Gary and points it at American lawyers

A UK-flavoured legal-AI tool gets rewritten for U.S. practice and an easier setup.

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zgbrenner has taken the open-source Mike codebase, rebranded it as "Gary," and repositioned it as a simplified, U.S.-focused fork - explicitly aimed at making self-hostable legal AI easier for American lawyers to install, configure, and run. The original credit to Mike's author stays, as does the bring-your-own-key model where you supply your own AI provider.

The real work goes beyond a new name. The fork swaps UK and Commonwealth legal terminology for American equivalents, reworks the signup, login, and account screens and the built-in workflows, and ships a U.S. terminology map, a setup guide written for solo practitioners, and a legal disclaimer. It's framed as a starting point - the first step in a broader Americanization pass.

So what Worth a look for any U.S. solo or small firm wanting open-source legal AI in language and setup built for them rather than translated on the fly.

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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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