AI WorkDeck
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AI WorkDeck

The IDE for lawyers.

Clear the clutter. Get back to the law.

Programmers have long had their IDE: files, editing, search, versions and AI in one window. AI WorkDeck brings that infrastructure to lawyers — organised by matter, every answer sourced, every change on the record.

Free community edition · Windows / macOS · 20 interface languages

The real AI WorkDeck interface: case files on the left, a draft complaint in the middle, the AI assistant on the right (fictional demo matter)
open-source licence
AGPLv3
interface languages
20
desktop apps
Win · Mac
files and redaction stay on your machine
Local
GitHub stars
169

Why an IDE

The AI chat box is the command line of the AI era.

A big matter means hundreds of documents, months of work and several people. Lawyers, like programmers, work in text: piles of files, draft after draft, citations to check everywhere. They deserve their own infrastructure too.

Chat box

  • Start from scratch every time
  • Paste the materials in, one by one
  • Copy the answers back out, piece by piece

AI WorkDeck

  • The context lives with the matter
  • AI reads the file and edits the documents
  • Every step leaves a record

Just a quick question? Switch to chat mode.

What a chat box can't do

From the field to the final draft, in one workspace.

01

AI edits the document itself

No more copy and paste: the AI reads the case file and writes straight into the real Word document. Every edit is a tracked change you accept or reject, and every conclusion links back to its source.

AI WorkDeck: the AI's findings on the case file next to the document being revised
02

The field and the office, connected

Photos and recordings taken on your phone at the scene land in the case file on your computer, filed by date. Interviews become transcripts, and meeting minutes go straight into the matter.

Field captures filed automatically into the matter's folders on the desktop
03

Extended by the community

Install skills, plugins and MCP servers from the marketplace in one click, and package your team's methods, checklists and templates for everyone to reuse. Publish your own work too: authors keep 85% of net revenue on paid items.

The marketplace: skills, plugins and MCP servers

Video guides

Two minutes, one task.

20 short guides — real interface, fictional cases — from the first click after installing to a full litigation workflow.

Guides are narrated and subtitled in Chinese.

All videos

Open source

Open code. See exactly what it does.

All of the source is on GitHub. Whatever can run on your computer does: redaction never touches a language model, and recordings can stay on your machine.

AI-WorkDeck / aiworkdeck 169 StarsLicence AGPL-3.0Latest v0.81.0Run from source$ git clone https://github.com/AI-WorkDeck/aiworkdeck

Shipping continuously

A new release every week.

Full changelog
  1. v0.81.0 · Nov 6, 2026

    Documents open in under a second, AI edits land exactly where you point, and dark mode now darkens the page too

  2. v0.80.1 · Nov 6, 2026

    Sturdier saving and syncing: brief outages, service restarts and timeouts no longer silently lose or duplicate your documents and recordings

  3. v0.79.0 · Nov 5, 2026

    Recognize text in scans and images with one click: copy or export to Word from the right-click menu and proofread side by side

Give your time back to the practice.
Bring the work into one place.