Imagine running a fully remote company, locally on your laptop.
Not just the data — the legal infrastructure too. The statutes. The member registry. The board minutes. The governance workflows. The signature flow. Even AI agents that draft, review, and summarize legal documents.
All running locally. Offline-capable. Syncing peer-to-peer when you want them to, isolated when you don't. Exported as a polished Word or PDF document in one minute, as a clean HTML page the next — same source, multiple formats.
This is a local-first conference. We're going to bring local-first to the part of the stack nobody talks about: legal infrastructure.

The legal stack is the last centralized stack
While the rest of the web decentralized — data, identity, money, communication — legal infrastructure has barely moved. It remains:
• Paper-first in a digital world
• Proprietary in its templates, tools, and intelligence
• Lawyer-mediated at every step, often unnecessarily
• Rent-seeking by design: the friction is the business model
• Jurisdictionally siloed, with little reusable common infrastructure
For builders, collectives, mutual aid networks, DAOs, and small organizations everywhere, the legal wrapper around your work is often the most centralized, opaque, and expensive part of your stack. You pay for templates that should be public goods. You rent workflow software that locks in your governance data. You wait weeks for documents that could be generated in minutes.

What if legal infrastructure were software?
We've been building open-source tooling that treats real legal entities like code:
• Documents as code — statutes, registries, minutes, and agreements as structured, versioned, forkable artifacts
• Workflows as automation — incorporation, governance, voting, and document execution as repeatable, auditable processes
• Local-first by default — entity data lives on your machine, synced peer-to-peer
• Privacy by design — confidential information never leave the local environment
• AI agents on-device — drafting, reviewing, summarizing without sending anything to a third party
• Multi-format export — the same source generates polished Word documents, HTML, PDF
• Open source all the way down — every template, document model, and workflow is a public good others can fork and improve.

This is open-source infrastructure for legal sovereignty.

Public legal goods
Everything we build, fork, and improve becomes part of a growing commons: document models, templates, and workflows that any community, anywhere, can adapt to their jurisdiction and purpose. Legal infrastructure as open-source software.

Important note
This workshop is about infrastructure and tooling, not legal advice. We are not lawyers. We do not recommend any specific legal vehicle for your situation. The Swiss Verein appears as one demonstration example among many possible structures.

Who this is for
Builders, organizers, lawyers, governance designers, researchers — anyone curious about what changes when legal infrastructure stops being a SaaS dependency. No legal background or coding required.

What you'll need
A laptop (any OS). A pre-camp setup guide will be sent to confirmed participants — installation takes ~15 minutes, plus a help session before the workshop.

Alignment with DWeb principles
Sovereignty over organizational data · Human agency in legal self-determination · Trust without unnecessary intermediaries · Public goods over proprietary platforms · Decentralization that goes all the way down — including into the legal layer.