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Davemaina1 gives the fork its own name: Mike becomes Iroh

A one-commit rebrand swaps every visible mention of "Mike" for "Iroh" - a signal this fork is steering toward its own product, not staying in step with upstream.

branding

Davemaina1 went through the parts of the app a user actually sees and changed the name. The assistant now introduces itself as Iroh instead of Mike. Tracked edits in documents are attributed to Iroh. The sidebar logo, the placeholder hints in the column-builder screens, and the model help text all follow suit.

Nothing under the hood moved - no new features, no settings, no data changes. It's a surface rename, and deliberately so. But naming is rarely just naming. Calling the product Iroh stakes out a separate identity, and forks that build their own brand tend to keep drifting from the original. That makes future borrowing in either direction more painful, and routine updates from upstream harder to pull in.

So what If you're tracking which Mike forks are becoming standalone products versus close copies, this is the early tell - Iroh is going its own way.

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SHA Subject Author Date
b47a935a rebrand: rename user-facing "Mike" → "Iroh" across UI and system prompts Davemaina1 2026-05-12 ↗ GitHub
commit body 
Changes 12 user-visible strings across 9 files:
- System prompts (chatTools.ts, tabular.ts): assistant introduces itself as Iroh
- DOCX tracked-changes author (chatTools.ts, docxTrackedChanges.ts): "Iroh" in Word Review panel
- Browser tab / OG title (layout.tsx): "Iroh - AI Legal Platform"
- Error page title (global-error.tsx): "Something went wrong - Iroh"
- Navbar / sidebar brand text (site-logo.tsx, AppSidebar.tsx)
- Settings page body text (account/models/page.tsx)
- Column prompt placeholders (AddColumnModal.tsx, WFEditColumnModal.tsx)
- Built-in workflow badge (WorkflowList.tsx)

Internal identifiers (MikeMessage, MikeIcon, mikeApi, application/mike-doc,
storage bucket name, code comments, external URLs) left unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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