Press Release: We’re Publishing Our Roadmap for the Library at LexBlog

For the first time, we’ve put the roadmap for the Library at LexBlog out in the open. If you write for the Library, run a firm that publishes on it or partner with us on the data, you can now see where this is headed — and why we decided to build it in the open rather than behind a curtain.

The page lives on lexblog.com and tracks the current state of our internal roadmap. It’s organized into four lanes—Now, Next, Later and Recently Shipped—so at a glance you can see what we’re building, what’s coming and what already landed. It refreshes every two weeks, so what you’re looking at is the real picture, kept current.

This isn’t a list of someday promises. Structured metadata is live on paid author profiles right now, and the first paid Author Records have already been sold. The roadmap is where you’ll watch the rest land as it happens.

We expect it to change—and we’d rather change it with you than at you. Take a look and tell us what matters most, what we’ve got in the wrong order or what we’re missing. That feedback is what shapes what comes next.

A conversation with a state bar association got our CEO Kevin O’Keefe thinking. Lawyers publish insight and commentary built on real expertise, it sits on a web page, and over time the site gets revised and the content disappears.

“Why not have that work on a legal research platform used by lawyers where it lasts forever and can be cited as secondary law, whether by other lawyers, by the judiciary, or by anyone else doing the research?” writes Kevin.