CaseCanopy

CaseCanopy

Overview

CaseCanopy is an AI-powered legal platform that bridges the justice gap by enabling cross-jurisdiction legal precedent discovery and outcome prediction. It provides equal access to legal insights through a modern, responsive web application.

Project Structure

• agentic-ai/: Python FastAPI service for legal document generation using AI.
• backend/: Go (Gin) backend for user, admin, file, and document management.
• frontend/: Next.js/React frontend for user interaction and legal research.
• RAG/: Python Flask server for retrieval-augmented generation (LangChain-based).

Key Features

• AI-powered legal document generation (petitions, RTIs, complaints, etc.)
• Case law and legal precedent search
• Outcome prediction and legal insights
• User authentication and admin approval
• Document upload, management, and PDF generation
• Modern, responsive frontend UI

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Arpit529Srivastava/Case_Canopy.git
cd Case_Canopy

2. Set up the AI Agent:

cd ai_agent
   # Follow instructions in ai_agent/README.md

3. Set up the Backend:

cd backend
go mod tidy
go run main.go
# Server runs on :8000, requires MongoDB running locally

4. Set up the Frontend:

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev
# App runs on http://localhost:3000

5. Set up the RAG:

cd RAG
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py
# Server runs on http://localhost:8000

# in other terminal tab run:
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python analyzer.py

Environment Variables

1. agentic-ai/.env

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

2. RAG/.env

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here
MODEL_NAME=gpt-4o-mini 
QDRANT_URL=your_link
QDRANT_API_KEY=your_qdrant_api_key_here

3. backend/.env

SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=your_email
SMTP_PASS=generate_password_and paste_here
JWT_SECRET=your_token
GEMINI_API_KEY=your_api_key

4. frontend/.env.local

MONGODB_URI=you_uri
JWT_SECRET=secret_token

License

• This project is licensed under the MIT License.