CaseCite is a free, open-source legal AI Harvey Alternative that law firms can run on their own infrastructure, keeping all their data private.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, November 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Independent AI developer Thomas Unise has released CaseCite, a free and open-source legal AI platform that delivers the same core capabilities offered by Harvey AI, but with more control and stronger data privacy.
Unise is taking direct aim at Harvey AI with the launch of SorryHarvey.com, a website promoting CaseCite as a free alternative to the expensive enterprise legal AI software that has raised over $1 billion.
CaseCite allows law firms to connect their DMS and CRM to search internal documents, ask questions with source-backed citations, analyze and redline contracts, draft legal documents, verify citations, and research case law and judges through CourtListener. The platform also supports automated workflows and bulk contract analysis, allowing attorneys to review hundreds of documents and export structured findings to Excel.
These are the same core functionality that has made legal AI one of the most heavily funded sectors in technology.
But CaseCite takes a fundamentally different approach to how that software is distributed and controlled.
Rather than requiring firms to purchase overpriced licenses, CaseCite is available under the Apache 2.0 license. So anyone can download the source code, modify it, and deploy it on their own infrastructure without paying software licensing fees.
But what’s even more important, is firms get to retain control over all of their data and infrastructure allowing sensitive client documents and AI processing to remain within their own environment.
This approach removes much of the vendor dependence associated with proprietary legal AI systems and gives firms direct control over their documents, software, and deployment.
While Harvey has attracted enormous venture capital investment and built a business selling legal AI to law firms and enterprises, CaseCite makes the same fundamental legal workflows available free.
For independent attorneys and smaller law firms, that means access to legal AI capabilities without another expensive software subscription. For larger firms, it creates an opportunity to operate and customize their own legal AI infrastructure rather than relying entirely on outside vendors.
With CaseCite, Unise is making a direct challenge to the economics of the legal AI industry: the technology behind many expensive legal AI products can be made accessible, customizable, and free to use.
“We believe every attorney deserves access to the most powerful and capable tools available, because their clients deserve the most powerful and capable representation. And we look forward to delivering that to our users” Said Unise.
Sorry Harvey, we object to your pricing.
CaseCite is available now at https://SorryHarvey.com
Or on Github at https://github.com/thomasunise/casecite.
Thomas Unise
CaseCite
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