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DONNA · Open-source · AGPL-3.0

Voice in. Verified work out.

Decision-Oriented Network Notarisation for Attorneys

Donna is the open-source delegation engine behind ChiefofStaff. The lawyer speaks one sentence; the system routes the work, runs it, and returns it with a tamper-evident receipt a senior partner can verify in seconds.

Open source · AGPL-3.0 · self-hostable

Voice as a control layer
Intent Decision Records
Tamper-evident by design
Why this matters

Voice as a control layer.

Not voice input — that's commoditised. Voice as the steering mechanism that routes work to the right place and turns intent into finished, verifiable output.

The lawyer speaks one sentence: what needs to happen, who it routes to — a team member, an AI agent, or a note-to-self — and how to know it's done. The system absorbs the routing decision and the tracking burden. Work goes to the right human or system. Every delegated decision becomes a tamper-evident receipt — an audit chain the senior lawyer can use to review what their team completed, and why.

The product is not speed or transcription. It is the elimination of coordination overhead: the gap between deciding something should happen and knowing it happened, with delegation proof attached.

What's in the box

Three primitives. One coherent stack.

Voice as control layer

One spoken sentence routes the work — to a human, an AI agent, or a note-to-self. Not transcription. Not dictation. The steering wheel.

Intent Decision Records

Every AI-assisted decision produces a tamper-evident receipt. The chain links each receipt to the prior. Senior partners review origin, not just output.

Delegation orchestration

The system absorbs the routing decision and the tracking burden. Provider-agnostic — switch the underlying AI model with a single flag.

Scope

What works, where.

What you can run by cloning the repository, what you see on the public demo, and what we enable in a paid engagement.

CapabilityClone the repoPublic demoPaid engagement
Voice notes → actionRuns locallyWalkthroughProduction wiring
Time entry from voiceRuns locallyWalkthroughBilling bridge
Document ingestionCLI + samplesUpload + querySharePoint / DMS
Matter summariesRuns locallySample mattersLive matter feed
IDR audit chainVerify with stdlibOpen + verifySenior-review console
Provider portabilityAny OpenAI-compatN/AEU-resident models
Workflow integrationsNot bundledNot bundledSharePoint, Teams
See it in action

What Donna looks like.

Screens from the working system — voice capture, delegation, and provider-agnostic routing with an audit trail on every decision.

Donna command centre dashboard showing billable hours, open tasks, documents and pending drafts
The command centreBillable hours, tasks, drafts and documents in one view.
Voice delegation screen — speak a task and Donna routes it to a person or an AI agent
Delegate by voiceOne spoken sentence routes work to a person or an AI agent.
Time capture screen — log billable time from a voice note in seconds
Time capture from voiceBillable time logged in seconds — not reconstructed at 7pm.
LLM orchestration screen — sensitivity-based routing between frontier and on-prem models, every decision audited
Routed and auditedSensitivity-based routing between frontier and on-prem models — every decision logged.
Get started

Three ways to try Donna.

Hosted and free, a guided walkthrough, or clone the source — pick your depth.

Free hosted

Run Donna with zero setup at free.donnaoss.com — the fastest way to feel the voice-to-verified-work loop.

3-minute walkthrough

Watch a senior lawyer's day captured by Donna, then download the real document packet at the live demo.

Clone the source

AGPL-3.0, self-hostable, provider-agnostic. Everything is open at donnaoss.com.

How it relates to ChiefofStaff

Donna is the open-source spine.

ChiefofStaff is the commercial surface for legal teams who want delegation orchestration as a managed service — with senior-review tooling, enterprise integrations, and white-glove onboarding. Donna is the open-source spine those services are built on.

The same primitives — voice as a control layer, Intent Decision Records, delegation orchestration — power both. Anyone can clone Donna and run it. ChiefofStaff is for the firms that want the production system, the integrations, and the senior-partner console.

The legal-AI moment. The market now has the language to describe what it's looking for: provenance, delegation proof, and senior-review traceability. Donna is the credible open-source answer; ChiefofStaff is the production deployment.

Two paths. Pick one.

Open source — clone and run. Production — talk to us.