Justly

In legal practice, the record of a matter is scattered: statutes, case notes, client messages, filings, and the history of decisions in between. In Rwanda, the law itself spans four languages.

When lawyers move on or matters go quiet, much of that context becomes hard to recover, and hard to prove.

I thought the gap was search: better retrieval over existing documents.

Retrieval only helps when there is a structure to retrieve into. The deeper need was to represent how pieces of a matter relate to each other over time, and to show that evidence hasn't been altered.

Institutional legal memory for law firms and legal teams, built on a 112-statute corpus in Kinyarwanda, French, English and Swahili.

SHA-256-based evidence integrity and trusted timestamping, so a firm can show what a document said and when.

A concept note delivered to Rwanda's Ministry of Justice.

112

statutes, four languages

50

beta users

10

paying firms

20

firms in pilot

Structure is a form of trust. A record that shows how it was assembled, and proves it hasn't changed, is easier to rely on than one that simply returns an answer.

Justly applies the question to institutions: how scattered professional knowledge becomes a record that others can pick up and act on.