About Lawly

Lawly is an AI business document generation service for South African small businesses, sole proprietors and freelancers. You answer guided questions about your business, and Lawly drafts a business document from your answers, using South African legal frameworks as the foundation.

What Lawly is, and what it isn't

Lawly is document generation technology. It is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. The documents it produces are drafts for you to review and tailor to your situation.

Review before use, with the depth of review matching what the document carries for your business. For high-stakes contracts, such as employment contracts, NDAs, partnership agreements, commercial leases and restraint of trade clauses, an attorney review before signing is sensible, especially for significant or unusual arrangements. For operational documents, such as warning letters and certificates of service, check the draft against your internal procedures and the relevant labour-law requirements.

How a Lawly document is made

  1. Choose one of 13 business documents, from employment contracts and NDAs to privacy policies based on POPIA.
  2. Answer the questions for that document. They ask for the details the document needs, such as the parties, dates, amounts and terms.
  3. Lawly's AI drafts the document for your answers, using South African legal terminology and business law structures rather than a generic fill-in-the-blanks template.
  4. You receive the document by email as a PDF, or as Word, PDF and Google Docs with the all-formats option, ready for your review.

Documents start at R199. See pricing or browse the documents.

How our guides are written

The Lawly team writes plain-language guides to South African business rules, such as employment paperwork, leave, notice periods and POPIA. Each guide is researched from official sources: Acts of Parliament, and the websites of government departments and regulators such as the Department of Employment and Labour, SARS and the Information Regulator.

Every guide lists its sources and shows the date they were last checked. When a source changes, we update the guide and that date. Guides are general information, not legal advice. Where the answer depends on your circumstances, the guide says so and suggests asking an attorney or the relevant authority.

Contact

For help with an order or a document, email [email protected]. For questions about how we handle your personal information, email [email protected] or read our privacy policy.