Show HN: Local, Tracked, Versioned, Legal Research Databases
This is a project I've been working on for about 8 months now. I worked in legal tech for 3 years and found that one of the biggest hurdles for AI agents and lawyers alike when doing legal research is tracking changes, and correctly cross referencing those changes between different forms of legal documents. W2D builds a SQLite dataset from public sources, and offers agent skills for answering questions about that dataset. The dataset holds multiple revisions of the U.S. Code at each release poin
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Source account: This is a project I've been working on for about 8 months now. I worked in legal tech for 3 years and found that one of the biggest hurdles for AI agents and lawyers alike when doing legal research is tracking changes, and correctly cross referencing those changes between different forms of legal documents. W2D builds a SQLite dataset from public sources, and offers agent skills for answering questions about that dataset. The dataset holds multiple revisions of the U.S. Code at each release poin
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