Understand the matter
Bring sources and questions into a shared working context.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, GROUNDED IN YOUR WORK
Build on what
your firm knows.
The sources you trust. The judgment you bring. The work you should never have to start from scratch.
We are building a connected way for South African law firms to turn authorised documents and accumulated matter work into useful, reviewable intelligence.
THE CONNECTED MATTER01 / 03
01Source materialDocuments · authorities · evidence
02Working knowledgeQuestions · comparisons · interpretation
03Professional judgmentReview · corrections · next steps
One matter. A growing body of work.
Our product direction, illustrated.
SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXTSOURCE-LED WORKLAWYER-LED DECISIONS
01 / THE OPPORTUNITY
A firm’s knowledge is bigger than its document store.
It lives in the way a team finds a source, questions an answer, revises a draft and hands a matter over.
Our aim is to connect those moments. So useful work stays with the matter, its sources remain within reach, and the next person can pick up with context.
SA Legal Intelligence is the business behind that ambition. MatterGraph is our first product.
02 / OUR FIRST PRODUCT
MatterGraph
From a stack of documents
to a matter you can work with.
We are designing MatterGraph around the whole sequence: bring together permitted sources, investigate a question, compare documents, review the result and keep the work.
The first iteration is intended to connect source-grounded research, document comparisons and reviewable drafts in a persistent matter workspace.
See the pilot experienceMake the work inspectable
Keep originals, references and human assessment close to the output.
Carry the work forward
Return to saved comparisons, notes and handoffs as the matter develops.
Product direction. Current demonstration and pilot scope are described on the MatterGraph site.
03 / HOW WE BUILD
Useful intelligence needs
a sound working foundation.
Evidence within reach
The source should be easy to inspect. We build around provenance and visible gaps, so a fluent answer never substitutes for checking the material.
Permission with purpose
Source rights, matter access and model processing need explicit boundaries. Deployment and data arrangements are agreed before firm material is used.
Judgment stays human
The professional decides what a source means and whether work is ready to rely on. A draft, a correction and an approval are different things.
04 / THE BUSINESS
Built with a practice,
not just for one.
SA Legal Intelligence is an independent business led by Tim Lai in Johannesburg.
We are developing MatterGraph with a focus on the recurring work of South African firms. The pilot is an opportunity to shape that work with practitioners and evaluate the total effort involved—including verification and correction.
We are in development. We are not announcing general availability, a launch date or a result we have not measured.
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