Project Overview
Co-op Atlas is a multi-edition public-interest initiative for turning cooperative law into usable answers, comparisons, and briefs across jurisdictions. It includes a Global Edition for broad legal discovery and a U.S. Southern Edition that applies a structured, question-based approach to a verified seven-state dataset.
The Challenge
- Cooperative law is often scattered across hard-to-search statutes, PDFs, and jurisdiction-specific sources. Organizations frequently repeat the same research, lose institutional memory, and struggle to compare governance rules, membership requirements, and board powers across jurisdictions. Co-op Atlas was built to make recurring legal questions easier to research, verify, compare, and reuse over time.
Our Approach & Key Contributions
Initiative Architecture and Product Positioning
Defined the Co-op Atlas initiative as a multi-edition system and built a parent experience that distinguishes between implementations, communicates the core workflow, and routes users from broad legal discovery into structured, question-based comparative outputs.
→ Parent initiative site connecting the Global and U.S. Southern editions
Global Legal Discovery Platform
Built the Global Edition as an exploratory legal discovery platform that centralizes cooperative law documents across countries and source formats. Implemented searchable collections, interactive mapping, AI-assisted summaries, and comparison inputs to support international legal research and analysis.
→ International discovery across jurisdictions and source documents
U.S. Southern Comparative Research System
Built the U.S. Southern Edition around a question-first architecture, enabling comparison of how different jurisdictions answer recurring legal questions. Designed structured findings, source-linked citations, and publication-ready briefs that allow users to move from statute to answer to reusable output within a single workflow.
→ Question-based comparison with source-linked briefs across seven Southern states
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Outcomes & Results
Created a multi-edition system that transforms fragmented cooperative law into a reusable workflow spanning discovery, structured comparison, source verification, and publication-style outputs.
Launched a public-facing initiative website, developed a Global Edition covering 100+ countries and 200+ legal documents, and built a U.S. Southern Edition demonstrating applied question-based comparison across seven states with citation-backed outputs and publication views.
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