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Co-op Atlas: Multi-Edition Cooperative Law Research System

Client: JNF Digital (self-initiated R&D) Year: 2025–Present Industry: legal, civic tech, research, international development

Built a public-interest initiative that turns cooperative law into structured, citation-backed answers across jurisdictions through a multi-edition system, including a Global Edition for legal discovery and a U.S. Southern Edition for question-based comparison and publication-ready outputs.

↗ Co-op Atlas Initiative↗ Global Edition↗ U.S. Southern Edition

Project Overview

Centralized global cooperative law into a structured multi-edition research platform supporting legal discovery, source verification, question-based comparison, and publication-ready outputs across jurisdictions.

The Challenge

  • Scattered, unstructured, multilingual PDFs made comparing and analyzing cooperative laws slow, difficult to verify, and hard to reuse. Co-op Atlas connects broad legal discovery with structured citation-backed answers across distinct research editions.

Our Approach & Key Contributions

Global Edition Discovery Platform

Implemented OCR and multilingual parsing to ingest scanned PDFs into a Postgres datastore.

OCRTesseract.jsPDF.jsPostgreSQL

AI-Assisted Legal Research Layer

Integrated OpenAI GPT‑4o to auto-summarize statutes, answer contextual questions, and flag governance requirements.

OpenAI GPT-4oPrompt Engineering

U.S. Southern Comparative Research System

Developed a responsive interactive map and data visualization tools using React 18, Mapbox GL, and Recharts to reveal geographic and temporal trends.

ReactMapbox GLRecharts

Tools & Technologies

ReactTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSViteNode.js/ExpressPostgreSQL/SupabasePDF.jsTesseract.jsOpenAI GPT-4oMapbox GLRechartsSvelteKitFlask

Outcomes & Results

Released public beta covering 72 countries and 200+ statutes with <3.5s AI response time

researchers can compare governance requirements side-by-side, export data, and submit new laws via contributor workflow.

Key Metrics

100+ countries and 200+ documentsGlobal Edition coverage
7 states and 45 statutes with 1,782 sectionsU.S. Southern Edition dataset
300+ questions with citation-backed answersStructured comparison layer

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