Doing Process Maps the Law as People Actually Encounter It

Why it surfaced

The project treats lived procedural knowledge as expertise: contributors draw a process on paper, it is scanned and converted into BPMN, checked against cited law, stripped of identifying details, and published under CC0. It is an unusually concrete bridge between legal aid, civic technology, process modeling, and the people who have had to learn these systems firsthand.

Doing Process turns hand-drawn maps of legal procedures, many created by people inside prisons, into a public, machine-readable encyclopedia.