manueljpconde lets firms keep Mike's brain in-house
The mikeEU fork can now point the assistant at a self-hosted AI model instead of a cloud provider.
Most legal-AI tools send your prompts - and whatever documents ride along with them - out to a third-party model in someone else's data centre. manueljpconde adds a path that keeps it local: an operator can wire Mike up to an AI model running on the firm's own servers, configured once per deployment and shared by everyone on that instance. Per-user setups are flagged as coming later.
There's a nice bit of honesty engineering, too. Smaller self-hosted models often can't run Mike's document and drafting tools. Rather than let the AI quietly claim it did something it couldn't, the team hard-codes a warning into the model's instructions so it won't invent actions it never took - a real guard against the confident-but-fake answers that erode trust in these systems.
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