Redline
On-device, for SA in-house teams

Drafts read.
Risk scored.
Statute cited.

Drop a counterparty's draft. Redline scores the clauses, pulls out the deadlines, and flags the risky shifts against the Companies Act, POPIA, the CPA, LRA, BCEA, and the tax code. The contract never leaves the lawyer's laptop.

35Acts SA statutes cited in-app
30+ Clause families detected
0uploads Stays on the device
What it does

Five core features.

01

Reads any contract format.

Native PDFs, scanned PDFs, DOCX, and image files. Password-protected documents prompt for the password. Scanned documents are OCR'd on the device, page by page. Drop a folder of fifty contracts at once and watch progress in the topbar.

02

Segments and classifies every clause.

Liability, indemnity, restraint of trade, force majeure, VAT treatment, voetstoots, suspensive conditions, notarial bonds. Thirty-plus clause families. Filter any contract down to the handful that matter for your review today.

03

Scores risk with a cited rule.

Each flagged clause cites the rule that caught it and the statute section it touches. Deterministic regex first; the on-device assistant only weighs in on the watchlist clauses, with a sentence of reasoning.

04

Extracts deadlines with context.

Renewal windows. Notice periods. Auto-renewal traps. Every date lands on a calendar with the clause that created it. A commencement date is never confused with a termination deadline.

05

Exports a counter-party-ready redline.

Word track-changes with author and timestamp metadata. Open in Word, accept or reject each change, send back. The full analysis stays inside Redline; only your redline leaves the device.

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And more, for the long tail.

Counterparty roll-ups, negotiation memos, outcome capture per clause, grounded chat over the SA statute reference, and specialty calculators (sanctions, transfer-duty, double-tax-treaty, POPIA RoPA). One toolbar.

Grounded locally

Grounded in 35 SA Acts.

Consumer & commercial

  • CPA 68/2008Unfair terms, plain-language rule, voetstoots restrictions
  • NCA 34/2005Credit agreements, reckless lending, in duplum rule
  • Competition Act 89/1998Price-fixing risk, merger thresholds, restraint reasonableness
  • Conventional Penalties 15/1962s3 reducibility of penalty clauses
  • Prescription Act 68/1969Three-year debt limit, claim survival

Corporate

  • Companies Act 71/2008s218 statutory liability, s75 conflicts, s78 indemnification
  • B-BBEE 53/2003Empowerment compliance triggers
  • Insolvency Act 24/1936Voidable dispositions, ipso facto clauses
  • Trust Property Control 57/1988Trustee authority verification
  • Constitution 1996s9 equality, s14 privacy, s23 labour rights

Employment

  • LRA 66/1995s188 fair dismissal, s189 retrenchment consultation
  • BCEA 75/1997s20 leave floor, working-hours caps
  • EEA 55/1998Designated-employer obligations, equal-pay disclosures
  • COIDA 130/1993Workplace-injury liability allocation
  • UIF 63/2001Contribution and benefit entitlement

Privacy & technology

  • POPIA 4/2013s19 responsible-party, s72 cross-border, s55 operator
  • ECTA 25/2002s13 advanced electronic signatures
  • PAIA 2/2000Records-of-processing rights
  • Cybercrimes 19/2020s54 incident-reporting duty
  • FICA 38/2001KYC triggers, reporting thresholds

Property & tax

  • Alienation of Land 68/1981Deed-of-sale formalities
  • Sectional Titles 95/1986Body-corporate consents, levy warranties
  • VAT Act 89/1991s64 default-inclusive rule
  • Income Tax s31Transfer-pricing scrutiny, withholding tax
  • SA DTA networkTreaty partners across thirteen jurisdictions

IP & case law

  • Copyright Act 98/1978Work-for-hire defaults, assignment formalities
  • Patents Act 57/1978s60 assignment, s59 employee inventions
  • Trade Marks 194/1993Registered-mark licence requirements
  • PAJA 3/2000Lawfulness for government-touching contracts
  • Landmark casesTwenty SA Constitutional Court and SCA judgments

Citations are drawn from statutes shipped inside the application. No external API key, no Westlaw round-trip, no web search. The legal reference lives on the device, paraphrased for contract-review use and frozen at each release. Direct buttons to SAFLII and the Government Gazette let you verify against the live primary source before relying on a citation in advice.

Nothing leaves the device

Designed for privileged material.

Get in contact

Let's see if Redline fits your practice.

Redline is sold under a short written agreement. Send a contract you would like to test it on, and we will run it on a demo licence before we discuss seats.

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