🚧 Alpha Development • Open Source • SOC 2-Aligned Architecture

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.

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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.

🔒Multi-Tenant Isolation
🤖Separate App Handoff
📋Audit-Ready Logs
🔓Open Source Codebase

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 authentication and user management (AWS Cognito)
  • AI chat interface with Claude integration (AWS Bedrock)
  • Extensible plugin architecture (MCP)
  • System diagnostics and health monitoring
  • User settings and personalization
  • Audit trails for compliance

🚧In Active Development

  • Persistent chat history across sessions
  • Enhanced streaming responses
  • User feedback and rating system

Q2 2026 focus

📋On the Roadmap

  • Legal research plugins (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
Request Early Access

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
Follow Development

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
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What's Included

A clear view of what is live today, what is actively being built, and what comes next.

✅ Available Today

Secure AI Chat Interface

AWS Bedrock integration with Claude, real-time responses, context-aware conversations

Enterprise Authentication

AWS Cognito user pools, multi-factor authentication support, session management

Multi-Tenant Isolation

Cryptographic data separation, tenant-specific workspaces, privilege protection

Audit & Compliance

Immutable activity logs, UTC timestamp precision, CloudWatch integration

Extensible Architecture

MCP-based plugin system, custom tool integration, API-first design

🚧 In Progress

Persistent Chat History

Save conversations across sessions, search previous interactions, sidebar navigation

Enhanced Streaming

Token-by-token response display, interrupt long responses, progress indicators

User Feedback System

Rate AI responses, flag inaccurate information, continuous improvement loop

Document Upload

Analyze legal documents, extract key clauses, summarize findings

📋 Planned Next

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.

Q2 2026 (Current)
  • ✅ Core chat interface and secure foundation
  • 🚧 Persistent history and session UX
  • 🚧 Streaming responses and AI SDK migration
Q3 2026
  • Legal research plugin (case law)
  • Document upload capability
  • Session export and sharing
Q4 2026
  • Contract analysis plugin
  • Citation management
  • Practice management integrations
2027+
  • 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

Enterprise-grade infrastructure designed for security, scalability, and compliance.

User Browser
React 18 + TypeScript
AWS Amplify Hosting
Authentication + Static Hosting
AWS Cognito
Identity
AWS Bedrock Agent
AI Runtime
Go MCP Server
Business Logic
DynamoDB
State
Lambda
Functions
Plugins
MCP

⚛️Frontend

  • • React 18 with TypeScript
  • • Vite (build tool)
  • • TanStack Query (data fetching)
  • • shadcn/ui (component library)
  • • AWS Amplify (authentication)

⚙️Backend

  • • Go 1.25.8 (high performance)
  • • AWS Bedrock (LLM integration)
  • • AWS Lambda (serverless compute)
  • • DynamoDB (state persistence)
  • • Model Context Protocol (MCP)

🏗️Infrastructure

  • • Terraform (IaC)
  • • AWS CloudWatch (observability)
  • • GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
  • • LocalStack (local development)
  • • Multi-region capable

Who's Building Gideon

JE

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

Frequently Asked Questions