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Intelligence at corpus scale
Work across entire matter collections. Scope deployments for very large corpora, including millions of documents or pages where appropriate, subject to infrastructure, formats and validation.
DEVELOPED BY LAWYERS FOR LAWYERS
The whole matter.
A clearer perspective.
Legal intelligence for the scale and complexity of modern practice. Connect the facts, understand the relationships and produce work worthy of your judgment.
Built for law firms and legal teams. Designed around professional control.
CONNECTED MATTER INTELLIGENCEConceptual view
FULL-CORPUS ANALYSISRELATIONAL INTELLIGENCEPRIVATE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONSLAWYER-LED REVIEW
01 / THE PLATFORM
Eight capabilities.
One connected practice.
A substantial legal record deserves more than disconnected summaries. Guardian brings factual depth, relationships and legal work into a coherent environment.
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Comprehensive factual extraction
Surface people, entities, dates, obligations and events. Build structured chronologies and a factual foundation that lawyers can inspect against the underlying record.
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Cross-document relationships
Connect evidence across documents, entities and events. Examine patterns, inconsistencies and dependencies that isolated document summaries can leave unexplored.
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Legal questions. Full-corpus context.
Interrogate the matter as a whole. Explore competing interpretations, follow supporting material and identify gaps that require further evidence or legal research.
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High-grade legal drafting
Develop submissions, opinions, agreements and correspondence grounded in the matter. Preserve your instructions, drafting conventions and professional review.
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Multidisciplinary analysis
Bring legal, financial, technical and commercial material into a connected analysis. Give specialist teams a shared factual foundation without flattening their expertise.
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Your practice, better coordinated
Support matter preparation, task organisation, follow-ups and working briefs. A personal assistant for legal workflows, with lawyers retaining control of decisions and execution.
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GuardWatch
Search online court rolls to check whether matters have been enrolled against your clients. Surface potential client-name matches for verification, with coverage determined by the courts and published rolls available online.
Explore GuardWatchGUARDWATCH / COURT ROLL INTELLIGENCE
Keep your clients
on your radar.
Search the court rolls available online to check whether matters have been enrolled against your clients. Bring potential matches to your team’s attention for timely verification and informed follow-up.
Discuss GuardWatch coverage01
Define the clients to check
Scope the client names and identifying information your team needs to review.
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Search available online rolls
Check the relevant published court rolls within the agreed source coverage.
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Verify potential enrolments
Review the source roll and confirm identity, case details and the appropriate next step.
Coverage and freshness depend on online publication and source availability. Potential matches require lawyer verification.
02 / SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your obligations.
Your deployment decisions.
Confidentiality, privilege and personal information shape the architecture discussion from the outset. Agree the boundaries before introducing a live matter.
Privacy and privilege
Scope processing around matter sensitivity, authorised users, retention requirements and your organisation’s information policies. Review POPIA responsibilities and provider arrangements as part of deployment.
Private by arrangement
Consider private or on-premises deployment where appropriate. Establish infrastructure ownership, operational responsibilities and which services may receive matter information.
Accountability by design
Agree source traceability, permissions, review checkpoints and audit requirements. Evaluate controls during the pilot and confirm them in the deployment specification.
AN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATION
A structured foundation for legal reasoning.
Guardian’s positioning centres on relational and geometric intelligence: preserving the structure of a matter and the connections within it. A graph-oriented architecture and deterministic processing elements support a factual foundation for model-assisted analysis and drafting.
The detailed implementation remains proprietary. Deployment-specific guarantees, external model access, data handling and security controls are established during technical assessment and contracting.
YOUR CORPUSSTRUCTURED FACTSCONNECTED CONTEXTLAWYER-REVIEWED WORK
03 / HOW IT WORKS
From a complex record
to considered legal work.
Scope
Agree the matter, corpus, deployment environment and review criteria.
Structure
Extract factual material and connect relevant entities, events and documents.
Interrogate
Ask questions, inspect relationships and test the evidence across the corpus.
Produce & review
Develop drafts, briefs and next steps under your team’s professional oversight.
04 / IN PRACTICE
Built around the work
lawyers actually do.
Different disciplines. A common need for reliable facts, connected context and work that can withstand professional scrutiny.
Disputes
See the matter in its entirety.
Bring pleadings, correspondence, contracts and evidential records into one connected view. Develop a chronology, test the factual theory and prepare drafts that remain open to scrutiny.
- Cross-document factual analysis
- Chronologies and evidential relationships
- Matter-grounded drafting and review
Corporate & commercial
Understand the transaction behind the documents.
Examine agreement families, disclosure material and supporting records together. Surface obligations and inconsistencies, then develop the questions and drafts your team needs.
- Contract relationships and obligations
- Due diligence across large collections
- Commercial and legal analysis
In-house teams
Make institutional knowledge usable.
Connect legal and operational records to support investigations, governance and commercial decisions. Scope access and deployment to the organisation’s information requirements.
- Internal investigations and fact finding
- Policy and regulatory workstreams
- Legal workflow and briefing support
GuardWatch
Know when a client appears on a court roll.
Check available online court rolls against the clients your team needs to watch. Review potential matches in context before deciding whether action is needed.
- Client-name checks against online rolls
- Potential enrolments for lawyer verification
- Court and source coverage agreed at onboarding
05 / WHY GUARDIAN
Developed by Lawyers
for lawyers.
Legal work requires an understanding of how facts relate, how a position is supported and where uncertainty remains.
Guardian is built around that professional reality. Its focus is comprehensive factual extraction, cross-document relationships and serious legal drafting over substantial corpora.
Rooted in the needs of the South African legal market and relevant to practice internationally, Guardian brings privacy, privilege and operational control into the same conversation as capability.
Technology in service of professional judgment.
BEFORE WE TALK
The questions
that matter.
Who is Guardian designed for?
Guardian is designed for law firms and legal teams dealing with substantial records, demanding legal work and sensitive information. Developed by Lawyers for lawyers, it supports professional judgment throughout the matter lifecycle.
How is Guardian different from a generic AI copilot?
Guardian’s focus is the connected matter: comprehensive factual extraction, relationships across documents and legal work over full corpora. A retrieval-led workflow commonly starts with selected passages; Guardian’s positioning centres on a structured, graph-oriented factual foundation and broader relational analysis. Suitability should be tested against your own matters.
Can Guardian handle millions of documents or pages?
Very large collections, including millions of documents or pages where appropriate, are part of Guardian’s intended deployment scope. Actual capacity, processing time and cost depend on document formats, infrastructure and the work required. These are assessed during technical scoping and a representative pilot.
Can Guardian run privately or on-premises?
Private and on-premises deployment can be scoped where appropriate. The deployment discussion establishes infrastructure, access controls, operational responsibilities and any approved connections to external model providers.
Can we use our existing model subscriptions?
External model access through existing subscriptions may be possible where the provider’s terms, API access and deployment requirements permit it. Consumer subscriptions do not necessarily include API access. The approved arrangement is confirmed during onboarding.
What does GuardWatch cover?
GuardWatch searches online court rolls to check for matters enrolled against clients. Its coverage depends on which courts publish rolls, source accessibility, update timing and available identifiers. Potential matches require verification; a missing match does not establish that no proceedings exist. GuardWatch does not replace formal service or court enquiries.
Does Guardian guarantee POPIA compliance or legal privilege?
Those outcomes depend on more than a platform. Guardian’s deployment is scoped around privacy, confidentiality and privilege concerns. Your firm’s policies, lawful processing grounds, provider arrangements and operational practices remain essential. Requirements should be reviewed before confidential information is introduced.
How do we evaluate Guardian?
Start with a demonstration focused on your practice and deployment requirements. Agree a representative pilot, define review criteria and assess source traceability, drafting quality, corpus scope and operational controls before broader adoption.
LET’S DISCUSS YOUR PRACTICE
Bring your questions.
See the possibilities.
Arrange a demonstration focused on your matters, your corpus and your deployment requirements.
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