Gideon
Secure AI help for legal research, drafting, and review
Built for law firms and legal teams that cannot afford mistakes. Gideon is in active alpha, with the current focus on secure foundations, public transparency, and a controlled path to early access.
Already invited? Login to the app
Why teams start here
Gideon is aimed at legal teams that want AI help without giving up confidentiality, auditability, or clear product boundaries between the public website and the authenticated app.
Where We Are Today
Status: Active Alpha Development. Gideon is being built in public, with security, compliance, and transparency prioritized before broad access.
✅What Works Today
- •Secure sign-in and account management
- •AI chat assistance designed for legal work
- •Extensible tools that can grow with your needs
- •System health monitoring
- •User settings and personalization
- •Audit trails designed to support accountability
🚧In Active Development
- •Persistent chat history across sessions
- •Real-time, responsive conversations
- •User feedback and rating system
Q2 2026 focus
📋On the Roadmap
- •Legal research tools (case law, statutes)
- •Document upload and analysis
- •Contract review tools
- •Citation management
- •SOC 2 Type II certification
Q3 2026 and beyond
Interested in Gideon's direction? Broad access is not open yet, but you can follow development on GitHub.
Why Gideon?
Built for Confidentiality
Multi-tenant cryptographic isolation from day one. Designed for professionals handling attorney-client privileged information. Every interaction is logged for compliance and audit trails.
SOC 2-Aligned Architecture
Designed to meet SOC 2 Type II requirements. Role-based access control, data encryption at rest and in transit, audit logs with UTC timestamps. Certification planned for Q4 2026.
Transparent & Open Source
Public GitHub repository. All architectural decisions documented (ADRs). Community-driven roadmap. No black boxes. See exactly how it works.
Your Data, Your Control
AWS Bedrock provides access to multiple LLM providers (Claude, GPT, etc.). Modular architecture allows easy model switching. Export your data anytime.
Why Gideon Exists
Legal work is high stakes. Deadlines, confidentiality, and professional responsibility leave very little room for vague answers or brittle tools. Gideon is being built to give legal professionals useful AI assistance without asking them to trade away control, auditability, or trust.
That means starting with secure foundations, transparent product status, and open development instead of polished promises. Gideon is still in active alpha, but the direction is clear: practical AI for professionals who cannot afford mistakes.
Request Early Access
The next useful step is not self-serve signup yet. It is a clear handoff for early-access requests, design-partner conversations, and existing invited-user login.
Request Early Access
Gideon is not ready for broad self-serve access yet. If you want to be considered for alpha access, start with the public early-access handoff and a direct conversation.
What this means today:
- • No fake signup flow
- • A controlled alpha access path
- • Clear expectations about timing and fit
- • Honest signals about product readiness
Follow Public Progress
The codebase is public. Follow the roadmap, inspect the documentation, and track how the product evolves before broader access opens.
Useful next steps:
- • Review the public roadmap
- • Read technical documentation
- • Follow repository progress
- • Track product direction openly
Talk Directly
If you are evaluating Gideon for a future pilot, design-partner role, or strategic introduction, talk directly before any account or billing flow exists.
We're open to:
- • Design-partner conversations
- • Enterprise pilot discussions
- • Product fit discussions
- • Advisory input
What's Included
A clear view of what is live today, what is actively being built, and what comes next.
Secure AI Chat Interface
Natural, context-aware conversations for legal research, drafting, and review
Secure Account Access
Multi-factor authentication, protected sign-in, and controlled session management
Multi-Tenant Isolation
Each firm's data, conversations, and materials are fully separated and never intermingle
Audit & Compliance
Complete, tamper-resistant activity records to support internal review and compliance needs
Extensible Tools
Designed to grow with new capabilities as legal workflows evolve
Persistent Chat History
Save and search past conversations across sessions
Responsive Conversations
Real-time, flowing responses you can pause or redirect
User Feedback System
Rate responses and flag issues to help improve accuracy over time
Document Upload & Analysis
Analyze legal documents, extract key clauses, summarize findings
Legal Research Tools
Case law search (jurisdiction-aware), statute lookup, regulatory guidance
Contract Analysis
Clause identification, risk assessment, comparison tools
Citation Management
Automatic source attribution, Bluebook format support, verification links
Case Management Integration
Connect to practice management software, matter-based context, team collaboration
Public Development Roadmap
The roadmap stays public so legal teams and contributors can see what is shipping, what is being hardened, and what is still ahead.
- ✅ Core chat interface and secure foundation
- 🚧 Persistent history and session UX
- 🚧 Streaming responses and AI SDK migration
- ○ Legal research plugin (case law)
- ○ Document upload capability
- ○ Session export and sharing
- ○ Contract analysis plugin
- ○ Citation management
- ○ Practice management integrations
- ○ SOC 2 Type II audit completion
- ○ Expanded collaboration workflows
- ○ Mobile progressive web app
⚠️ Timeline Disclaimer: Dates are directional and may change based on product learning, technical constraints, and contributor capacity. GitHub reflects the freshest progress signal.
Built on Modern, Cloud-Native Architecture
Infrastructure designed for security, reliability, and confidentiality.
⚛️Frontend
- • Modern, responsive web interface
- • Fast, reliable page delivery
- • Efficient data handling
- • Accessible, consistent design
- • Secure user authentication
⚙️Backend
- • High-performance application services
- • AI model integration
- • Serverless compute platform
- • Reliable data storage
- • Plug-in extensibility
🏗️Infrastructure
- • Infrastructure as code
- • System monitoring and alerts
- • Automated testing and deployment
- • Local development environment
- • Multi-region capable
Who's Building Gideon
Jay-Alexander Elliot
Founder & Builder
Building Gideon for legal professionals who need AI systems they can trust under pressure, with security, compliance, and transparency treated as product fundamentals.
Development Philosophy
- ✓Quality over speed
- ✓Security and compliance from day one
- ✓Open-source where possible
- ✓Community-driven roadmap