Launching Open Specter, an open source version of Harvey/Legora
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I spent some time working with lawyers, validating the workflows results and general UX getting the product to where it is today, it is directly available on GitHub for you to fork, self host or whatever have you.
I have spent my fair share in legal tech, meeting the founder of Legora, Max, on several occasions, other than being a charismatic leader, here are a few other things became clear to me:
\- These companies are run by some of the best founders this generation has seen, their "Let's rule the market" attitude culturally is in every corner of the company.
\- Launching these companies today wouldn't have reached where they are today, a lot of the conversation has reached "But Claude code can...". Especially with their own Legal Agents now.
\- The sales and GTM engine these companies run on is a master class that should be studied, management books should be written on them.
\- These products have priced themselves out of smaller firms, as the website shows, I have sorted out several comments from this subreddit, lawyers, paralegals and the lot. It is insane to me in some cases these products can cost well above $1k+/seat.
\- Shepardizing is pricey, if it's with LexisNexus or Westlaw comes at a big premium, this knowledge is or should be free and available at masses. I have integrated with open sources to protect this across different jurisdictions and types of law.
Lastly, I am happy and amazed that the industry that was so underserved by tech is now the frontrunner.
EDIT:
1. As [Plane-Coconut-4077](https://www.reddit.com/user/Plane-Coconut-4077/) and others have pointed out, this work is forked from Mikeoss, integrated with LegalDataHunter, and validated 25+ workflows.
2. I was not aware of the correct usages of various licenses, this is now rectified on Github and the website. Apologies for sending the wrong signal here, this was not the intention at all
Top comments · 6
- 22↑u/Plane-Coconut-4077Looks like a cheap flog of someone else’s work https://mikeoss.com/
- 11↑u/EveryTodd"Law is attractive"? What does that even mean? (first three words on the website)
- 7↑u/dmonsterative*Shepardizing is pricey, if it's with LexisNexus or Westlaw comes at a big premium, this knowledge is or should be free and available at masses. I have integrated with open sources to protect this across different jurisdictions and types of law.* No, you have not. Not to any level of reasonable reliability. Shep and KeyCite are curated and cross-referenced **subject matter** *and* case-treatment indexes built up by human editors over time. Including their taxonomy and headnotes. They are not probabilistic search engines.
- 6↑u/outcastspidermonkeyAs a non-big law (fancy type) lawyer, I've never thought law was attractive. I'd change that if you're going after small law/solo practitioners. It's weird.
- 2↑u/Expensive_Net_4738Why would you open source it? i just don't get it...! guess you Legora last month raised $600million , Goodluck , i see it's a replica of Mikeoss
- 4↑u/Polite_Jello_377So you just ripped off some other AI slop and are patting yourself on the back for it?