Docassemble

Judgement

What it is

Framework or platform

What it does

A platform for building guided web interviews that assemble documents, widely used by legal aid groups and law firms, written in Python, YAML and Markdown.

Adopt it when

You need to turn legal or form-based processes into online interviews that produce documents.

Watch out

Mostly built by one developer, and the server image is large.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python, YAML, PostgreSQL and Redis

How established

Established: started 11 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Docassemble → V8 → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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