Jylo today (11 May) announced that their founders Sam Lansley and Shawn Curran will offer free strategic consultancy sessions to organisations exploring or deploying open source AI systems internally, including implementations built around MikeOSS.
Jylo enables law firms to leverage different large language models within their organisations and supports open source. Curran during his previous role as director of legal technology at Travers Smith launched open source project YCNBot, which is an alternative to ChatGPT, built in collaboration with 273 Ventures.
Speaking to Legal IT Insider, Curran said: “Sam and I were discussing the fact that we wish we could support more open source. The best companies have proprietary and off the shelf technology and as a business that supports open source, we want to help firms.” Since the launch of MikeOSS this month, the Jylo team has received lots of emails from customers asking if Jylo can integrate with it. It doesn’t have an MIT license – the permissive ‘do what you want with it license’ – but Curran says that he is keen to help firms understand and explore what they can do. “We know the pitfalls and genuinely want to support people with a one hour session that will help them think about what they are taking on,” he says.
Curran says that legal tech vendor shouldn’t be negative about open source technology, which benefits the entire community. He refers to example such as free operating system Linux as an example.
Lansley, who was previously AI manager at Travers Smith, says: “Many firms are understandably excited by the pace of progress in open source, but there is still a lack of operational knowledge around deploying these systems securely and sustainably inside organisations. We’ve spent years working through these problems in practice – both internally within firms and externally as platform builders now with Jylo – and we think sharing that experience is valuable for the market.”
Organisations interested in participating can contact the Jylo team directly via the following link or through the Jylo website.
