Mike arrives as a fully open‑source rival to commercial legal AI platforms like Harvey and Legora. It bundles a chat‑driven assistant that reads contracts, cites verbatim passages, and runs multi‑step drafting workflows—all without an enterprise licence. Users can drop in their own Claude or Gemini API keys, keeping model choice and cost under firm control for internal use.

Workspaces called Projects let teams upload credit agreements, SPAs, leases or diligence packs so the assistant retains full context across every query. A spreadsheet‑style tabular reviewer extracts data from hundreds of files in parallel, anchoring each cell to a page and quote to avoid hallucinations. Saved prompts become reusable workflows—checklists, credit summaries, change‑of‑control reviews—that junior lawyers can execute with a single click in the firm.

Because the codebase lives on GitHub, firms pay only for underlying model usage and avoid per‑seat fees. Self‑hosting lets documents stay behind the corporate firewall, preserving residency and privilege. Teams can fork the repo, add practice‑specific integrations or their own citation engine, and audit every line of prompt logic. Mike therefore delivers a cost‑effective, auditable alternative that law departments can control today immediately.