Jylo Founders Will Help You Onboard Mike OSS

While some legal tech companies are politely trying to avoid the subject, Jylo’s founders, Sam Lansley and Shawn Curran, are not just embracing the work of vibe-code warriors such as Jamie Tso and Will Chen – they’re going to help you bring their open-source software into your business, including Mike OSS – the now famous and free legal AI platform.  

They stated that they ‘will offer strategic consultancy sessions to organisations exploring or deploying open source AI systems internally, including implementations built around Mike OSS, or other platforms’. They are also not charging for this support.

Wow, radical altruism has taken hold of the legal tech market…..!

See AL story here about Mike.

AL asked Curran (pictured) why a commercial legal tech company with its own client base to engage with – and which it needs to get revenue from – would do this?

‘We just think we’re uniquely placed to support this [open-source offering]. And obviously there is a bit of a movement now, Mike OSS [by Chen] has gone viral,’ he told this site.

AL then asked if he knew Chen, or Tso (who helped pioneer the Legal Quants / DIY legal tech tool movement). Curran replied that ‘I have them on LinkedIn, but don’t really know them personally’.

So, what will happen?

‘The initiative is designed to help firms navigate the growing complexity of enterprise AI deployment – from architecture design and authentication to governance, scaling, orchestration, and secure model deployment inside regulated environments,’ the duo added.

They added that the pair ‘bring a rare combination of experience from both inside major firms and inside AI product development itself. Before founding Jylo, the pair spent years working directly within law firms, helping drive practical adoption of both buy-and-build technologies, including open sourcing various products themselves’.

Curran added: ‘Questions around infrastructure, permissions, security, workflows, verification, and scaling emerge very quickly [with open source]. We want to help organisations avoid common mistakes and accelerate adoption responsibly.’

The consultancy sessions will focus on practical implementation guidance, including:

• Designing secure internal AI architectures
• Authentication and permissioning strategies
• Multi-model orchestration and routing
• Governance and compliance considerations
• Scaling open source deployments
• On-premise and private-cloud deployment approaches
• Balancing cost, performance, and operational complexity

Lansley concluded: ‘Many firms are understandably excited by the pace of progress in open source, but there is still a lack of operational knowledge around deploying these systems securely and sustainably inside organisations. We’ve spent years working through these problems in practice – both internally within firms and externally as platform builders now with Jylo – and we think sharing that experience is valuable for the market.’

Is this a big deal?

Well, it may seem to be an ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ scenario. Jylo is a good fit however, as it’s always been a very flexible AI platform, and as Curran notes, he and Lansley are well-versed in developing tech to meet custom legal needs, having worked inside law firms for many years.

Also, they’re not the first to say they’d work with vibe-coders. Harvey last week said it was happy to see people build their own legal agents and try them out on their new Benchmark to check for performance.

That said, this is a step beyond that, and in effect is a legal tech company helping clients to bring in a system that aside from their LLM and token costs, they won’t have to pay for. In short, they’re helping a free alternative to potentially displace some paid for tools.

More about Jylo here.

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