jerry871009 reskins Mike as Donna

A fork that changes the name on the door but not the wiring behind it.

branding

jerry871009 has taken Mike and renamed it Donna everywhere a user would actually see the name - the login screen, the sidebar, the assistant's own persona in its prompts. It's a clean, deliberately shallow rebrand: only the visible labels change.

Under the surface, the fork still calls itself Mike. The internal naming the engineers work with was left alone, which keeps this fork close to the original and easy to keep in sync with upstream updates. The tradeoff is a split personality - what the user reads says Donna, what the code says still says Mike - which would look odd to anyone picking up the project later. The work reads as a private deployment putting its own face on the product rather than a true fork with new functionality.

So what Worth a glance if you're weighing how lightly you can rebrand a legal-AI tool for your own firm - but there's no new capability here, just a new name.

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030c246f rebrand: Mike → Donna (user-visible strings only) Jerry Chen 2026-05-17 ↗ GitHub

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