Show HN: Judicex – Open-source legal AI that abstains instead of hallucinating
Judicex is an open-source legal AI software designed for evidence-based drafting and legal work management. It allows legal teams to manage documents and generate drafts while ensuring that responses are grounded in verifiable evidence. The software emphasizes privacy by enabling local installations and controlling data flow without relying on external cloud services.
- ▪Judicex provides a workspace for lawyers to manage evidence and generate legal drafts.
- ▪The software features a two-tier evidence model that distinguishes between citable legal sources and operational notes.
- ▪It includes a local SQLite knowledge base and allows for private matter management without sending data to external vendors.
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Judicex Open-source legal AI software for evidence-grounded drafting, matter management and AI-assisted legal work — with an answer contract that fails closed instead of hallucinating. Judicex is a workspace for lawyers and legal teams. You can ingest official sources and private matter files, run deterministic workflow checks, generate drafts in a Word-style split-view editor, and chat with an LLM whose answers are bound to the evidence in a SQLite knowledge base you control. The project ships with a Flask web UI, a CLI, and an MCP stdio server, and talks to Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible providers — or runs with no LLM at all. Open-source vs. cloud.
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