The Manus Hackathon — January 2026
In January 2026, LegalQuants ran LQ001 — its inaugural hackathon in partnership with Manus AI. Twenty submissions were assessed across creativity, pain point relevance, working demo, and production readiness, judged by a legal software founder, a venture capitalist, and an AI lead at a Magic Circle firm. Here's what the community built.
These are experimental prototypes, not legal advice.

🥇 Competition Markets Authority decision tracker
CMA Decision Tracker (UK) - Won first place at the Legal Quants Manus Hackathon
Larissa Meredith-Flister🥈 Legally Lite
Learn U.S. laws through games. State-specific content, AI quizzes, mini-games, XP rewards.
Ranjitha Rangaswamy🥉 Get to Terms
Analyze Terms & Conditions and flag risky clauses in plain language.
Glen ByrneAI Contract Playbook Generator
I introduced Playbook Pro at the Legal Tech Hackathon 2026, built in collaboration with Manus AI. I explained that Playbook Pro helps legal teams create and maintain AI ready contract review playbooks in minutes instead of weeks. The goal is to capture review standards once, version them centrally, and reuse them across any large language model without vendor lock in. Legal teams stay in control through a clear governance layer. I shared why we had to build it. My legal team co developed a custom AI contract review tool that worked extremely well. It even attracted interest from finance. But we ran into a core problem. The built in playbooks were generic. They did not reflect our real risk tolerance, negotiation positions, or business policies. Business teams needed their own rules reflected in contract review, not just legal analysis. Creating and maintaining those playbooks manually was not realistic and required skills lawyers should not have to learn. I explained how Playbook Pro works. It starts with a structured, versioned clause library organized by negotiation position, which reduces errors and confusion. But that is only the foundation. The real value is in the AI playbook library, which captures how an experienced lawyer reviews a contract. These playbooks embed judgment. They show what matters, what should be flagged, and how issues should be explained. They are transparent, versioned, and easy to customize. I then showed the AI coaching layer, which lets users refine playbooks through simple instructions. Each change creates a new version that can be marked live or archived. If a playbook does not exist, the AI playbook generator can create one from scratch by asking who we represent, the contract type, and the key risks. It produces a structured review prompt with context, goals, and priorities, without any prompt engineering. I closed by emphasizing that Playbook Pro is not about automating drafting. It is about capturing expert legal judgment once and turning it into AI playbooks that can be reused, governed, and applied consistently across the organization.

Local Rules Dashboard
Dashboard for tracking federal and state court local rules, standing orders, and judge-specific procedures. Features an AI-powered research agent for discovering court resources and automated URL tracking.
Alyssa SonesLegal Risk Analyzer
AI contract review. Upload documents, extract parties, generate risk analysis reports.
Anvarul Haq KhanAIBE Super - The Legal Standpoint
In November 2025, as I was appearing for the Indian Bar exam, I noticed there is no specialised tool for All India Bar Exam prearation, so out of sheer curiosity and passion, I independently built a legal tools website and developed India's first Bar exam preparation tool called AIBE Super, combining vibe coding, API integration, and student-friendly design to solve a critical gap in legal education. One search and within seconds, you get: ✓ Clear explanation (100 words, no fluff) ✓ Exact location in Bare Acts (Section, Part, Schedule) ✓ Practice questions (AIBE-exam style) ✓ How this fits in your syllabus ✓ Exam strategy tips I sent it to known exam-takers, and the response was beyond my expectations. With a 10-day pilot ~200 law graduates discovered the tool organically. 1,100+ complex questions answered across 19 subjects. 65% retention rate, proving that specialized AI delivers real value.
China ODI Dashboard
Interactive data visualization platform that tracks Chinese companies' overseas direct investments globally. Covers M&A, greenfield projects, and other investment types with searchable deal data filterable by investor, destination country, industry, and status. Features an interactive world map, investment trend charts, and a bilingual interface (English/Chinese).

Chronos
AI tool that builds case chronologies instantly. Upload legal documents and automatically extract key events into timelines, exportable as PDF or Word.

Tritium
Tritium is the next-generation word processor for legal--the legal IDE.
Drew Miller
Tax Defense Strategist
LegalStrategy AI: From Raw Ruling to Actionable Defense A sophisticated Proof of Concept (POC) designed to bridge the gap between receiving a court decision and crafting a rebuttal. This "Second Brain" for litigators automates deep fact analysis, timeline generation, and legal issue mapping. Features include a specialized Prescription Detector and a Defense Strategy Mapper that suggests procedural claims based on an integrated jurisprudence database. Export your entire strategy directly to Word to accelerate your filing process.
Emmanouil LeivadiotakisContract Negotiation Tracker
A contract negotiation tracking application designed for legal professionals, procurement teams, and business negotiators. Manage clauses, track multi-round negotiations, compare text changes, and leverage negotiation playbooks, all in a refined, intuitive interface.
Gianni Carfi PaviaUCC Batch Drafter
Batch draft UCC-1 financing statements. Import from Excel, validate entity names, generate filled PDFs.
Joey TsangAgent Skill: Classify-competition-compliance-program
Classifies the treatment of Competition Compliance Programmes (CCPs) in competition law enforcement documents. Converts PDF input, detects language, analyzes the full document, produces a scratchpad, and populates Output.xlsx. Use when classifying how a CCP is treated as an offence, defence, remedy in a policy document or case/judgment.
The Legal Designer
All too often, contracts are a headache to negotiate because they’re written in overly complex legal language. The Legal Designer rewrites contracts so they’re in plain English and accessible to everyone. It transforms the contract clause by clause, with a comparison table so you can review each new clause and approve, edit or reject it as appropriate. It uses AI to do in minutes what would normally take a lawyer hours, while keeping the lawyer firmly in control to review and refine every change.
Lien TranCourtAlert
WhatsApp case tracking for Delhi High Court. Send a case number, get alerts when listed.
Manvi SharmaPDF Exhibit Extractor
Extract exhibits from PDFs and organize them into separate files with proper naming.
Nolan Hurlburt
TechRegParser
TechRegParser is an open-source multi-agent system that reads technology regulation statutes and produces a standardized, citation-verified structured extraction. You give it a statute PDF. It gives you back a JSON file where every obligation, definition, and structural element is represented in an identical schema, regardless of which jurisdiction wrote the law or how they formatted it.
Rafal Stanislaw Fryc
AI-enabled Intake Assistant (IA AI)
A ChatGPT-style interface that does not give legal advice — it simply: • asks structured questions to capture key facts, • guides the user to upload relevant documents, • organises those documents and highlights key issues of law/fact as prompts, • and produces a lawyer-ready briefing “docket” for the pro bono adviser. It can be used directly by the client or by a pro bono intake coordinator on the client’s behalf. Important caveat: there’s a lot more work needed to make this truly clinic-ready. For now, I’ve only been able to cater for housing law issues in England & Wales, based on my own experience and accumulated “clinic wisdom” about common queries, question flows, and document checklists.
Ritwik BhattacharyaManus Clause Bank
A legal document clause extraction and management system powered by AI. Upload legal documents and automatically extract, organize, and search clauses using artificial intelligence.
Valter Pasanen