Open Source Spellbook Alternative - MS Word Legal Plugin, (think MikeOSS for Word)
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Open Source Spellbook Alternative - MS Word Legal Plugin, (think MikeOSS for Word)

I know the rules say not to promote open source projects, but then MikeOSS happens to be a big launch and well appreciated OSS project and r/legaltech was welcoming to it.

We open sourced our word plugin for the community here - https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/vaquill-word-addin

No strings attached, this is what we use internally as well. There is no monetary angle here.

Harvey, Legora and other Legal AI providers charge hundreds of $$$ to use them, I thought why not level the playing field and give others the same tech.

Either host it in your server or use our hosted version with your own API key.

The future of legal is Open Source and this its not a wrapper, or a simple plugin, took months in development to match the quality of our funded competitors.

Self host it or BYOK, Apache 2 so feel free to play with the code.

Disclaimer - I work there.

u/zzriyansh — 6 hours ago

curated awesome-legaltech (github) - collection of databases, open source platforms, AI models, MCP servers, companies, datasets, and tools for the global legal ecosystem

built a curated list of awesome LegalTech resources - legal datasets, open source platforms, AI models, MCP servers, companies, and tools for the global legal ecosystem at https://github.com/Vaquill-AI/awesome-legaltech .

Contents:

  • APIs for Legal Data
  • Machine Learning Datasets & Corpora
  • Pretraining Corpora & Bulk Data
  • Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP)
  • Legal Text Classification
  • Legal Question Answering
  • Legal Summarization
  • Contract Analysis
  • Legal AI Models & Embeddings
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Embedding & BERT-style Models
  • Multilingual & Regional Legal Models
  • MCP Servers for Legal
  • Full-Stack Legal Platforms & Suites
  • Legal Research Platforms
  • Document Automation & Drafting
  • Intellectual Property & Patent Tech
  • Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)
  • Notarization & E-Signature
  • E-Discovery & Document Review
  • Practice Management & Legal Ops
  • E-Billing & Legal Spend Management
  • Consumer Legal Services (B2C)
  • Compliance & RegTech
  • Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
  • Access to Justice & Public Interest Tech
  • Foundational Research
  • Benchmarks & Evaluation
  • Legal Ontologies & Knowledge Graphs
  • Standards & Protocols
  • Legaltech Directories & Product Listing Platforms
  • Communities, Conferences & Media
  • Related Awesome Lists

I hope this helps, since legaltech is getting into a new era now.

u/zzriyansh — 2 months ago

New vendor for tracking

Vendor name: Vaquill AI

Website: https://vaquill.ai/

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/vaquill

## Which workflows does this vendor support?

Delete any that don't apply:

  • [x] Client & Matter Lifecycle
  • [x] Research & Analysis
  • [x] Document Drafting & Automation

Category

  • [x] Legal Research

What pain points does it solve?

Describe what job this tool helps you do - in plain language, not feature names. e.g. "I need to track 200 deadlines across matters and nothing syncs with my calendar."

  1. I need to do legal research from inside the assistant I already use. Plug Vaquill's MCP into Claude or ChatGPT and it can pull statute text verbatim, resolve citations, 50 state legislature, surface on-point cases, and check what a cite actually says, instead of guessing and hallucinating one.
  2. I'm drafting a contract, motion, or memo and need it grounded in real authority and real precedent language, not generic boilerplate the model invented. Vaquill drafts against a verified corpus so the citations and clauses trace back to actual sources.
  3. I have a stack of contracts or matter documents and need consistent answers pulled across all of them, organized, searchable, and tied back to the exact passage in the source doc -not 40 separate ChatGPT sessions.

## Who is it for?

Delete any that don't apply:

  • [x] Solo practitioner
  • [x] Small firm (2–10)
  • [x] In-house counsel
  • [x] Paralegal

Anything else?

Coverage today: all 50 state codes + federal statutes, US case law via CourtListener, citation resolution, amendment history, citation networks, hybrid dense+sparse retrieval with substring-verified citations (every quote checked as a literal substring of the cited passage before it's shown). Also ship an MCP server so the same corpus is callable from Claude/ChatGPT/Cursor - public endpoint, no lock-in.

Happy to disclose vendor status on every comment and stick to threads where we're genuinely relevant; not interested in drive-by promotion.

u/zzriyansh — 2 months ago