Redline
Redline reads counterparty drafts, scores the risky clauses, and cites the South African Act behind each one. It runs on the lawyer's own computer, so the contract is never uploaded.
In-house teams in South Africa review contracts written by the other side's lawyers, against South African law, usually under time pressure. Redline is built for exactly that. Drop a counterparty's draft, whether a native PDF, a scanned PDF, a Word document, or an image, and Redline segments every clause, scores the ones that carry risk, extracts the deadlines, and shows the rule and the statute section behind each flag.
The review stays on your computer. Redline reads, scores, and stores each contract locally and uploads nothing. The network is touched only for licence checks, a one-time activation and a brief check when the app opens, neither of which carries a contract, and for the in-app links you tap to read a citation on SAFLII or in the Government Gazette.
Liability, indemnity, restraint of trade, force majeure, VAT treatment, voetstoots, suspensive conditions, and more. Thirty-plus clause families, so you can filter a contract down to the handful that matter for today's review.
Each flagged clause carries the rule that caught it and the statute section it touches. Deterministic checks run first; a small on-device model weighs in only on the watchlist clauses, with a sentence of reasoning, and never invents a citation.
Renewal windows, notice periods, and auto-renewal traps land on a calendar next to the clause that created them, so a commencement date is never confused with a termination deadline.
Export track-changes for the other side in Word, with author and timestamp. The full analysis stays inside Redline; only your redline leaves the device.
Redline reads contracts against thirty-five South African Acts and legal sources, including the Companies Act, POPIA, the Consumer Protection Act, the Labour Relations Act, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, and the VAT and Income Tax Acts. The statute text is paraphrased for contract-review use and frozen at each release. Every citation links to SAFLII and the Government Gazette so you can verify the primary source before relying on it in advice.
Redline ships as native installers for macOS on Apple Silicon and for Windows. The Windows MSI supports silent install for Group Policy, Intune, or SCCM-managed deployments, so IT can roll it out across a team.
Related reading: how Redline handles POPIA-sensitive clauses, and why the whole analysis runs on-device.
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 discussing seats.
Risk scores, redlines, and statute citations produced by Redline are suggestions for human review. They are not legal advice.