Developer Builds Open-Source Legal AI After Harvey Raised $500M
Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
CaseCite is a source-available, self-hosted legal research platform that runs on infrastructure you control. It bundles document research with inline citations, contract review and redlining, long-form drafting, and CourtListener-backed case tools, sending data only to AI providers you configure with your own keys. Licensed under Elastic 2.0, it's free to self-host and modify but can't be resold as a managed service.
CaseCite is a research aid, not a substitute for a lawyer's judgment or for a citator.
- throwup238
> CaseCite is a _source-available_, self-hosted legal RAG caselaw research & document analysis platform.
Source-available is not open source.
- arctic-true
A lot of Harvey’s value prop is not in the underlying software - someone else came out with an “open source Harvey” (called “Mike”) months ago and it hasn’t really put a dent in uptake of Harvey or its main rival, Legora. Harvey’s value is in the infrastructure, the help integrating it into workflows, the ability to represent to other parties that you are using a trusted provider.
- postepowanieadm
No you did not. No don't have the access to jurisprudence.
- mym1990
I guess my first questions would be: what kind of background does the creator have in law to be able to steer this system to a good outcome? If they don't have a legal background, were legal experts and otherwise consulted to build this out? The fact that the creator is struggling with even understanding what open source is, makes it much harder to put any faith in this system.
- cahaya
I build my own take on this with https://document.bot
Build for aviation legal regulations/ compliance. Highly optimized search around large PDF's, Word, etc with offline, EU and frontier LLM options.