Welcome to Lexipedia

Lexipedia is an open-source project building standardized business process models for legal and civic applications. We make complex legal processes more transparent and understandable through visual modeling.

Built by the Center for Civic Innovation with the support of:

Lexipedia grows in three ways: defining new models, refining the ones already in progress, and exploring what the community has built so far. Pick a path below — no experience needed.

Start something new — a process, a case, or a general wiki improvement — using structured intake forms.

• Start Defining →

Jump into a model that's already underway and help move it forward.

• Start Refining →

Browse what's been documented so far, organized by jurisdiction.

• Start Exploring →

New here? These will help you get oriented, or jump straight to specific content:

• Quick Start Guide — creating an account, editing basics, and BPMN/DMN primers
• Project Overview — the vision behind Lexipedia
• Community Guidelines — how we collaborate (a work in progress)
• Sample Entry — see the standard structure of a model page
• Categories and Jurisdictions — browse models by topic or place
• Request Models — see what's been asked for, or suggest something new
• Recent Changes — see what's changed across the wiki

New: browse by place with Explore Models, a jurisdiction drill-down landing page.

Browse the legal and business process models our community has built:

• Jurisdictions — Models organized by location
• Categories — Models organized by topic
• Sample Entry — See what a model looks like

Review current models such as last wills, Reg CF Exemptions, and Business loans.

Experience how Lexipedia simplifies legal processes. Try our interactive demo on starting a business in Virginia:

Live demo — see the Charlottesville “how to start a business” business process in action

How we process our data

• Learn how to start a business with clear step-by-step instructions
• Create a record of how and why you made the choices you made along the way

- this is a demonstration of the processes available currently in Lexipedia

• Use dashboards to track how businesses are proceeding through processes
• Discover opportunities for businesses
• Coordinate regional level opportunities

- looking at Lexipedia & Spiff Workflow from a business development perspective

• Process models may be shared and forked
• Integration in Wikidata provides international crosswalks
• Integration in attestation models and smart contracts provide best practices for legal review

- considering Lexipedia for lawyers and legal engineers

to help legal engineers create, coordinate, and distribute better business process automation.

• Training for lawyers
• Training for business process advisors
• Technical documentation

Lexipedia documents processes from both geographic jurisdictions and online community governance. Here's what we're currently working on:

Jurisdictions

Charlottesville business startup model

Prospera

BPMN Models need to be added AI Models need to be added

Wikipedia's multi-tiered dispute resolution system is a major focus for Lexipedia — it's one of the most developed examples of community governance on the internet.

• Wikipedia Dispute Resolution Overview — Full BPMN model of the escalation process from talk pages through arbitration
• Talk Page Discussion — The first step: direct editor-to-editor discussion
• Third Opinion (3O) — Requesting an uninvolved editor's perspective
• Dispute Resolution Noticeboard (DRN) — Structured volunteer-assisted resolution
• Mediation — Mediation Committee facilitated resolution
• Arbitration (ArbCom) — Binding decisions from the Arbitration Committee
• Administrator Intervention — Admin actions for policy violations during disputes

These models demonstrate how online communities can build transparent, process-driven governance — and they're a great example of how Lexipedia can document processes beyond traditional legal jurisdictions.

Internal management plan

• Sartography & Spiffworkflow teams - open source BPMN software developers with central Virginia connections
• LexDAO - 501©6 non-profit guild of legal engineers
• Center for Civic Innovation - Charlottesville area 501©3 focused on civic tech
• Naptha.AI - Decentralized AI Workflow and Agent Orchestration

HATS integration - consider how users in pools actually represent their authority to act on a process

paralegal

documentation