Open Legal Products
Open Legal Products is the open-source project organization behind Mike (MikeOSS), an open-source legal-AI platform intended to give law firms and legal teams software they can run, inspect, control, and extend. Mike supports document review, drafting, legal research, bulk/tabular review, and reusable workflows without a per-seat license fee.
At a Glance
- Law firms
- In-house legal departments
- Transactional, litigation, and intellectual-property lawyers
- Legal operations, legal engineering, and technology teams
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Mike
Open Source Legal AI Platform
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Latest News
Why open source matters in legal AI: Mike argues for user control over data, workflows, and legal-AI economics.
Mike v0.4.0 expands the document library and adds PowerPoint and Excel support.
MikeOSS creator Will Chen appeared in podcast and video conversations about open source, enterprise legal AI, and what firms buy from proprietary platforms.
Mike entered wider legal-AI coverage in the Financial Times, Law Society Gazette, and Legal Geek discussions of open-source versus proprietary and in-house approaches.
Products & Services
Open-source, self-hostable legal-AI platform with an assistant for document-grounded chat, drafting and editing; matter-scoped projects; bulk/tabular review; reusable workflows; and legal research.
Public repository of portable SKILL.md-based assistant workflows and tabular-review workflows, including system and add-on workflow collections.
Beta Word integration for working with Mike from Microsoft Word.
Market Position
Mike positions itself as an open-source, self-hostable alternative to proprietary legal-AI platforms such as Harvey and Legora. Its differentiators are source-code and prompt transparency, local deployment and data control, zero software-license cost, model choice, and the ability for firms to fork or extend workflows; the trade-off is that customers must operate infrastructure and handle deployment, governance, integrations, and support themselves.
Leadership
Founders
Will Chen (William Chen)
Former Latham & Watkins lawyer/associate; he created MikeOSS and is identified in public coverage and the project's own release material as its creator.
Executive Team
Will Chen (William Chen)
Founder and creator
Former Latham & Watkins lawyer/associate; creator of MikeOSS and public spokesperson for its open-source legal-AI approach.
Founding Story
Will Chen built Mike after trying commercial legal-AI products such as Harvey and Legora, with the initial aim of demonstrating that a functional legal-AI application could be made open source and free to use. The first public release describes the vision as enabling firms and developers to inspect, self-host, and adapt the complete application rather than place documents and workflows inside a closed vendor system; public coverage says the initial application was built in about two weeks.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The open-source software has zero license cost and no per-seat pricing; users choose their own model/provider and pay the API or infrastructure costs they incur. A hosted cloud version is available for signup, while the source can be deployed locally or in a firm's own environment.
Target Markets
- Law firms
- In-house legal departments
- Transactional, litigation, and intellectual-property lawyers
- Legal operations, legal engineering, and technology teams
- Developers and organizations requiring private or sovereign deployment
- Contract drafting, editing, and review
- Matter and diligence-document analysis
- Bulk extraction and spreadsheet-style review across document sets
- Legal research and citation verification for US case law
- Reusable firm workflows such as conditions-precedent checklists, credit-agreement review, lease review, SPA review, and NDA review
- Law firms and legal teams that need private, self-hosted, inspectable legal AI