Easy to miss: Anthropic named the Justice Technology Association as the access-to-justice partner in the launch. The cost floor just dropped (while the product got better) for consumer legal. Law Firm 2.0 gets the headlines. A2J and direct-to-consumer is the largest white space in legal.

Antti Innanen > LAVERN: OPEN SOURCE

It has been a crazy 48 hours. We released Lavern as open source.

An agentic legal system, six months in the making, 155,000+ lines of code, 67 specialist agents, nine workflows, and at least ten things inside it that you could make as a separate product.

I was a bit anxious, like I was organising a kids’ party with balloons, unsure if anyone would come.

But they did.