Branchly

Branchly is a visual decision-tree builder for creating interactive guidance workflows. Think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure for legal compliance.

Lawyers often need to surface information in ways that don't require users to wade through 40-page policies or hunt through SharePoint. AI-powered tools are all the rage right now, and for good reason - they can be hugely effective. But they can also be expensive and take effort to implement properly. And sometimes, especially for very simple flows, there's no need for the glitz. You just need an easy step-by-step path to push your users to the right location. That's Branchly. Simple, deterministic workflows that guide users to answers fast. No AI hallucinations. No document hunting. Just clear paths to clear outcomes.

The point of this build was to see how hard it would be to vibe-code a fairly simple tool like this rather than buying something off the shelf. Turns out: not that hard. The concept could be extrapolated out and made way more complex, but this is just to play around and see what's possible.

The two demo workflows (yes, one involves suspicious salmon) are a bit of fun, but they show what you can build and how it looks for both end users and the legal team building the flows.

Toggle to Lawyer View (top left) to edit or build your own workflows using the visual editor.

• Visual Flow Editor: Drag-and-drop canvas for building decision trees. Add nodes, link them up, see everything at a glance.
• Two Node Types: Decision nodes for branching questions, Information nodes for guidance text and outcomes.
• Auto-Layout: One click to tidy up your canvas when things get messy.
• Live Preview: Test your flows exactly as users will experience them.
• Dual Views: User View for running flows, Lawyer View for building them.
• Local Storage: Flows persist in browser storage. No backend, no data collection.

This was really just a bit of fun. But it shows how quickly you can spin up a fairly useful and powerful (albeit simple) tool. It also shows how many tiny features and tweaks you'd want to add to make it enterprise-ready and super user-friendly - plus how many bigger, sexier features could be bolted on. If anyone wants to iterate on this or take it further, let me know.

You could add things like an AI builder that takes text from SharePoint, policies or memos, and turns it into the first draft build for refinement in the editor. Or more simplistic things like an embed feature that allows a guidance flow to be embeded on a SharePoint or some other other location best placed to guide users. As well as lots of other better controls and fixes to make this thing easier to use.