Neon Law Navigator

Our mission is to improve access to justice. Neon Law Navigator enables lawyers to finish more legal projects in the United States of America.

How it works

Navigator contains a shared core of rules and implementations as a command-line executable, an MCP server, and a website. If you are a lawyer, you are encouraged to use Navigator to supplement your existing AI conversations with reliable legal workflows.

After you install the navigator and a client contacts your firm, a Project is created for their Matter. Every project contains a git repository of its files and notation templates which frequently use terms from our glossary. Notation templates are markdown documents that define the intake questions and workflows required that solve legal problems.

For example, the Nevada trust notation template defines the questions required for filling out an estate, the workflows like notarization that are required, and where that data is used in the notation template body. When you work with your client, you create a notation from a notation template. For coders, a notation is a workflow executed with a durable execution engine.

We encourage writing notation templates with Zed and our LSP. It's different from Word, but once you get used to it, you may find it as productive as we do. Treating legal text like code opens a plethora of automations that save time, and we see its impact in scaling legal services.

Getting started

To run Navigator on your machine, run the following and review its output. The invocation will spawn a Rust process and a KIND cluster with common Linux Foundation technologies.

cargo run -p cli -- start-dev-server

If you want to deploy Navigator to the cloud, we recommend Google Cloud with Doppler, Restate, Twilio, DNSimple, and Mercury. GitHub Actions builds and publishes the dated container images to ghcr.io; you then roll a published image onto your GKE cluster with one command and visit your NAVIGATOR_PRIMARY_DOMAIN:

doppler run -- cargo run --release -p cli -- power-push --tag YY.MM.DD

The full edit → merge → release → deploy lifecycle is documented in GitOps. Cluster setup lives in GKE production; a from-scratch fork install is in OSS install. For each command, the error messages will tell you what you need. Loop that back to your LLM of choice, like Claude.

License

Licensed under either of the following at your option.

Trademarks

The license above covers the code: fork it, modify it, ship it, even sell it under Apache-2.0 or MIT. It does not grant any right to the names and marks of Neon Law. "Neon Law" is a registered trademark of Shook Law PLLC, U.S. Reg. No. 6,325,650.

The reason is non-deception, not control: a fork wearing the firm's name could imply that Neon Law or its attorneys stand behind software no attorney reviewed. So adopt your own name, and if you are interested, help us enable custom branding for your organization.

Nothing here is legal advice. Using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. We are not legally responsible for any actions you take with Neon Law Navigator unless it's agreed and signed in writing.