Pleadings Drafting Agent
The Pleadings Drafting Agent prepares first drafts of letters of demand, particulars of claim, notices and founding affidavits from the facts of the matter and your precedents. It structures each document in line with the Uniform Rules of Court, Magistrates' Courts Rules and the practice directives of the relevant division, giving the attorney a strong draft to refine.
Ideal forLitigation attorneys
The difference
From 3-6 hours per pleading to 45-75 minutes
Attorneys issue process sooner and spend their time on legal strategy and the strength of the case.
Done by hand
3-6 hours per pleading
With the Vanine agent
45-75 minutes
Time returned to your team
80%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
A faster start on every matter
Drafting process from scratch takes hours. The agent turns the facts and documents into a structured first draft so your attorneys begin at the refining stage.
Rules-compliant structure
Pleadings must set out material facts clearly in numbered paragraphs, and affidavits must contain the evidence on which the application stands. The agent follows these requirements from the start.
Your precedents, your style
Drafts are built from your own precedents and house style, so they read like your firm's work and reflect your preferred formulations.
Capabilities
Well-structured first drafts of pleadings and affidavits, built on your precedents.
Built for litigation attorneys, candidate attorneys, advocates and in-house dispute teams drafting process for the High Court and Magistrates' Courts in South Africa.
Letters of demand
Drafts letters of demand setting out the claim, amount, basis and deadline, ready for the attorney's review and signature.
Particulars of claim
Structures particulars of claim with the parties, jurisdiction, material facts, cause of action and prayers, and annexes the key documents.
Founding affidavits and notices of motion
Drafts founding affidavits that set out the facts and evidence in logical order, with a matching notice of motion and annexure references.
Notices and procedural documents
Prepares routine notices under the Uniform Rules and Magistrates' Courts Rules from your precedent set.
Division-specific requirements
Applies the practice directives of the relevant division, including formatting and filing requirements for Court Online or CaseLines.
Fact and annexure cross-checks
Checks that every factual allegation is supported by an annexure or the chronology, and flags gaps for the attorney to address.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
The attorney settles and signs the pleading, the deponent signs affidavits before a commissioner of oaths, and the attorney issues or files at court.
Connect the places your matter files already live.
The matter file, chronology and key documents from your document management system, and your precedent bank. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Microsoft Word (house style templates)
- Copilot Studio
- iManage and NetDocuments
- LegalSuite and GhostPractice
- Court Online and CaseLines
Runs in Word, Teams or OpenAI Frontier on request, using the models your organisation approves.
A first draft in Word in your house style, with annexure references and a list of gaps, saved to the matter file.
Step by step
- 01
The attorney selects the document type and shares the matter facts.
- 02
The agent selects the right precedent and applicable rules.
- 03
It drafts the document with annexure references in your house style.
- 04
It flags unsupported allegations and missing information.
- 05
The attorney settles the draft, and it is signed and issued or filed.
Deployment
Runs inside the tools your team already uses
The same agent and the same cited output, delivered three ways: through the AI assistant you have rolled out, on a model you host yourself, or inside your own software.
In the frontier assistant you already pay for
We publish the agent as an MCP server. Add it as a connector and your team calls it from the chat they use every day, with no new tool to learn.
"Pull the facts and relief sought"
- court
- Gauteng Division, Johannesburg
- claim
- Breach of supply agreement
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your matter files never leave your network, which keeps POPIA and data residency straightforward.
- Llama
- Mistral
- Ollama
- or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Inside your own software
Trigger a run from your own workflows, and push the finished output into your ERP, GRC or reporting systems. We build the integration with your team.
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Batch jobs
- Embeddable review panel
Governed the same way, every route
Whichever way your team reaches the agent, identity, permissions and audit stay with your existing controls.
- Single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace
- Reads only the documents each user is already allowed to open
- Every tool call written to an audit log you can export
How we deliver it
One agent, three ways to hold it
Start where your team already works, then take it as far into your systems as the value justifies.
DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your matter files stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your matter files. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR MATTER FILES NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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