Your law practice, in order.
Kosmos is open-source practice management for law firms: intakes, matters, tasks, invoicing, and a case builder. Self-hosted, always fast. AI optional.
| Date and Time | Description | Sources | Labels | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-01 8:40 AM | Refrigerated shipment leaves Port Elizabeth under Meridian carriage | (Bill of Lading #4471.) | ||
| 2025-03-03 | Shipment signed over to Meridian's subcontractor at the Newark yard | (Bill of Lading #4471.) | Chain of custody | |
| 2025-03-05 2:15 PM | Temperature log for Reefer Unit 7 shows a six-hour recording gap | (Temp. Log, Unit 7.) | Temperature log | |
| 2025-03-07 | Okafor testifies the manifest was amended after departure | (Okafor Dep. p. 42.) | Chain of custodyManifest | |
| 2025-03-09 | Meridian dispatch acknowledges the temperature log gap | (Ex. 12.) | Temperature log | |
| 2025-03-12 | Cargo rejected at delivery; spoilage assessed at $214,000 |
Everything a firm runs on, without the per-seat toll.
Manage matters, contacts, and deadlines in one place. Track time, generate invoices, and accept payments online. Route new clients through intake and report across the whole firm.
Run the practice
Dashboard: A single view of what needs attention: upcoming deadlines, recent activity, and open tasks.
Matters: The center of everything: people, deadlines, money, documents, and case work all attach to the matter.
Calendar: Full integration between matters and calendar events.
Tasks: Fluid task management for a whole team, including an optional Kanban system.
Contacts: Connect contacts to matters, group them by faction, tag them by role.
Activity: Time entries, expenses, or flat fees, captured as work happens.
Invoicing: Generate invoices, accept payments online through Confido or LawPay.
Intakes: A front door for new clients that feeds matters, not inboxes.
Reports: Productivity, realization, aging, intake flow: all straight from the data.
From a folder of PDFs to a case you can argue.
Upload documents and they're OCR'd and searchable. Highlight a passage and it becomes a citation. Cite it as the source of a dated fact and the chronology takes shape as you read.
Documents
Upload and OCR. Every page is searchable. Categorize, label, and set importance across the collection.
Highlights
Select a passage in the built-in viewer and it becomes a citable annotation — slug, color, page, pin cite.
Timeline
Each fact carries a date, description, and the sources that prove it. The chronology assembles itself as you read.
Witnesses
Track witnesses by name, affiliation, and alignment. Link them to highlights and facts across the matter.
Notes
Per-matter notes for strategy, research threads, or anything that doesn't belong in a document.
Labels
Color-coded tags that cut across documents, highlights, and facts. Filter any view by label.
Search
One search across documents, highlights, facts, and notes, with filters for type, date, importance, and label.
AI
A confidential AI pipeline that loads your documents and annotations automatically. Optional — off by default.
Client files belong on your server.
Kosmos is AGPL-3.0: free to run, read, and modify, forever. It's a boring, sturdy stack a firm's IT (or one determined associate) can operate: Django, PostgreSQL, and a background worker. No vendor between you and privileged material.
Self-hosted: your hardware or your cloud; full-text search and OCR run locally.
No per-seat pricing: add every paralegal, clerk, and time-keeper in the building.
AGPL-3.0: improvements to hosted copies come back to the commons.