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

🥇 Competition Markets Authority decision tracker

CMA Decision Tracker (UK) - Won first place at the Legal Quants Manus Hackathon

Larissa Meredith-FlisterLarissa Meredith-Flister
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🥈 Legally Lite

Learn U.S. laws through games. State-specific content, AI quizzes, mini-games, XP rewards.

Ranjitha RangaswamyRanjitha Rangaswamy
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🥉 Get to Terms

Analyze Terms & Conditions and flag risky clauses in plain language.

Glen ByrneGlen Byrne
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AI 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.

Abigail Hope Serrano
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Local Rules Dashboard

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 SonesAlyssa Sones
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Legal Risk Analyzer

AI contract review. Upload documents, extract parties, generate risk analysis reports.

Anvarul Haq KhanAnvarul Haq Khan
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AIBE Super - The Legal Standpoint

This project is a proof-of-concept legal document translation tool designed for the Indian legal ecosystem. (for now) Unlike generic translators, this system focuses on legal intent, drafting conventions, and document structure, not word-for-word translation. The goal is to make legal documents readable, reviewable, and usable across languages, especially in commercial and litigation contexts. What this tool does Translates legal documents between: English Hindi Gujarati Marathi Kannada Works at a clause level, preserving structure and hierarchy Adapts translations to how legal documents are actually drafted in the target language Supports side-by-side viewing of original and translated documents Allows editing of translated text before download Exports translated documents as DOCX or PDF Maintains version history, allowing users to track changes across translated drafts Includes a memory layer that remembers terminology, clause patterns, and prior edits to improve consistency over time This is meant to feel like a document drafted natively in the target language, not like a machine translation. Why this exists The global legal system has a translation problem, and India experiences it more than most. Modern Jurist is built keeping one simple thought in mind: “Starting in India, thinking global, building for the world.” Lawyers, businesses, and courts often deal with documents written in unfamiliar regional or foreign languages. Existing tools are fine for casual understanding, but they fail when: Legal context matters Formatting matters Drafting conventions matter You just want to quickly understand what a document is before involving specialists This tool is built to solve that specific problem. How it works (high level) User uploads a document (PDF, DOCX, or scanned file) The system: Detects language and document type Uses OCR where required Breaks the document into clauses and sections Translation is done using: Learned legal terminology Contextual clause mapping Language-specific drafting conventions Translation memory from previous documents and edits Each translated output is saved as a version, enabling comparison, rollback, and iterative refinement Output is rendered in an editable, side-by-side interface User can review, edit, and download the final document All databases, models, and processing remain entirely in the backend. Current status This is an early demo / prototype Core translation logic is functional Version history and memory features are in an early stage Some file types (especially PDFs of old documents) may have issues during upload or parsing UI and OCR are still being refined Nothing here is production-ready yet. Important disclaimer This tool is intended to assist understanding and drafting. It is not legal advice and should not replace: Certified legal translators Advocates Court-mandated translations Always use professional judgment before relying on translated documents for legal filings or decisions. Roadmap ideas Improved OCR accuracy for scanned court documents Expanded translation memory and terminology memory across projects Clause-level version comparison and diffing Support for additional Indian and foreign languages Jurisdiction-specific drafting modes Enterprise / on-prem deployment for law firms Contributions & feedback This project is exploratory and open to ideas. If you work in: Legal tech Law practice Translation Product or design and have thoughts, feedback, or critiques, feel free to open an issue or start a discussion. License This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Arjun Singh ChouhanArjun Singh Chouhan
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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).

Chong LiuChong Liu
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Chronos

Chronos

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

Dee Swarna
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Tritium

Tritium

Tritium is the next-generation word processor for legal--the legal IDE.

Drew MillerDrew Miller
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Tax Defense Strategist

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 LeivadiotakisEmmanouil Leivadiotakis
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Contract 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 PaviaGianni Carfi Pavia
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UCC Batch Drafter

Batch draft UCC-1 financing statements. Import from Excel, validate entity names, generate filled PDFs.

Joey TsangJoey Tsang
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Agent 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.

Leona ZhangLeona Zhang
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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 TranLien Tran
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CourtAlert

WhatsApp case tracking for Delhi High Court. Send a case number, get alerts when listed.

Manvi SharmaManvi Sharma
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PDF Exhibit Extractor

Extract exhibits from PDFs and organize them into separate files with proper naming.

Nolan HurlburtNolan Hurlburt
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TechRegParser

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 FrycRafal Stanislaw Fryc
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Ritwik Bhattacharya

I am a dual-qualified lawyer, with a keen interest in law and technology, and competition law. I qualified as an Associate in the competition law practice at HSF and am a solicitor advocate with Higher Rights of Audience in England and Wales. I am interested in how technology is changing the practice of law. As an Innovation Attorney at Latham and Watkins, I have been at the forefront of exploring GenAI applications for legal uses cases and client experiments. I have also advised clients on legal and regulatory issues related to their use of AI.

Ritwik BhattacharyaRitwik Bhattacharya
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Manus 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 PasanenValter Pasanen
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