Your AI drafts the letter. You sign it.
It pulls the matter file, drafts the redline or the reply, and tracks every deadline so nothing slips past a partner's desk. Self-hosted, so privileged files never sit on a vendor you can't audit.
What your AI would do in Legal.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
01
Reads a new contract, flags the clauses that differ from your standard terms, and drafts the redline for the attorney to check.
02
Pulls the matter file and drafts the letter, reply or notice, ready for a partner's signature.
03
Tracks every matter deadline against the court rules and flags the ones at risk before they're missed.
04
Summarises a long discovery bundle into the handful of documents that actually matter to the case.
About
About 60%.
of the amounts the Legal Practitioners Indemnity Insurance Fund paid out relate to prescribed Road Accident Fund claims
Legal Practitioners Indemnity Insurance Fund, via De Rebus, 2026
What your AI does about it:
It tracks every matter deadline against the court rules and flags the ones at risk long before they lapse.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 217K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 6 common legal tools
R 195K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The legal stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical legal firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Legal stack
6 tools · R 217K/yr in licences
Replace
DocuSign
E-Signatures · R 60K per year
With
DocuSeal
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 54K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 217K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 22K
Annual savings
R 195K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where legal time and money leak
What we hear on every legal discovery call.
Drafting from scratch on every routine letter
A standard letter of demand or reply still gets typed from zero each time. An AI drafts it from the matter file; the attorney edits and signs.
Document management on foreign SaaS
Case files and privileged communications sitting on vendors you can't audit. The Legal Practice Act expects you to know exactly where client documents live.
Per-matter billing and e-signature overhead
Practice management subscriptions and per-envelope e-signature fees are among the priciest per-seat SaaS in the profession. Self-hosted alternatives remove both.
How we handle the legal edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI ever send a letter without an attorney reading it?
No. It drafts and files against the matter; an attorney reviews and signs everything that goes out.
How does self-hosting protect privilege?
Your files stay on infrastructure you control, so there's no third-party custodian to subpoena or question. That's the whole argument for self-hosting privileged material.
Can it handle conflict checks across matters?
Yes, permissioning is matter-specific, so access walls hold and the AI only reads what a given user is allowed to see.
What happens to our matter history if we switch off DocuSign or Dropbox?
We migrate documents and version history first, so nothing is trapped when the old subscription lapses.