AI assistant
Built for lawyers.
for lawyers
We have built a robust AI assistant for South African legal practitioners.
Designed to do all the heavy lifting in your workflow. Your assistant will traverse the breadth of law and pinpoint what matters most.
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Adjunct uses state of the art AI and search technology to efficiently retrieve and analyse an extensive range of legislation, regulation, and case law. Providing lawyers with comprehensive and relevant information to support their research and decision-making processes.
Product Overview
The Adjunct product suite is built to support lawyers across three workflows: Research, Compliance and Litigation Procedures. Each solution has been carefully designed to complement and amplify your work. While you define the problem and verify the results, Adjunct uses its AI capabilities to expedite your workflow from start to finish. Designed to complement with local law at its core, leaving the unessential behind.
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The Adjunct Thesis
Adjunct was conceived to amplify human expertise. We set out to build a company that increases the amount of high-quality work in the world. Simultaneously we wanted to make work less mundane & laborious and allow for more creative expression.
Read MoreAdjunct/ˈadʒʌŋ(k)t/(n.) Something added to another as a supplementary rather than an essential part to that other.
(adj.) Connected or added to something.
At Adjunct we believe that technology serves to extend human capability. AI is simply the latest iteration of that. Our mission is to build tools that amplify the abilities of knowledge workers. To start, we have built a sophisticated AI product tailored for South African legal practitioners. This embodies our principles of complementarity, trust and personalisation. Lawyers who use our product will have more capacity for creative problem solving - opening more opportunity to deeply focus on the intricacies of South African law.
We have embarked on our mission together using our rich blend of skills and experience across AI engineering, business strategy, operations, and product development. This unique fusion of technological acumen and insight into professional services positions us ideally to identify and address specific challenges faced by knowledge workers, starting with legal practitioners in South Africa.
Alessandro Scarcella
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Alessandro is an experienced AI engineer who studied language models during his postgraduate research. Over the last decade, he has developed AI solutions in a broad range of industries including retail, financial services and online marketplaces. The application of AI to augment human capability and improve society is a source of continuous motivation and purpose.
Julita
Ramsunder
Chief Operating Officer
Julita is an economist with a background in strategic and niche economic consultancy. She began her career at a major consultancy building experience in strategic problem solving and intelligent automation then shifted into economic research where she has led and delivered multiple projects in monitoring and evaluation, trade and industry and public economics.
Adjunct is dedicated to catalysing the potential of AI for the legal profession, ensuring the advantages are harnessed while guarding against common AI pitfalls, such as inaccuracies. In order to achieve this, we make use of a battery of technologies and techniques including vector embeddings, retrieval augmented generation, hybrid search (semantic and keyword), prompt engineering and LLM finetuning.
While every feature has its own unique architecture and considerations, at the core, all our offerings have two ideas that drive our thinking: Verifiability and Complementarity.
1
User
Query
User inputs a free format legal query. Queries can be full questions, bullet points or simply shorthand notes from a client meeting.
2
Query
Refinement
AI assistant will ask follow up questions to refine the query to get more relevant results.
3
Source Document
Search
Taking this refined query, we will search for relevant source documents across public databases, and your private data repository.
4
AI Answer
Engine
Using the retrieved source documents, we will send the refined query with the retrieved source documents to our fine tuned AI models, which will answer the query using the source documents as the basis for every answer.
5
Answer With
Citations
The contextualised reference answer is returned to the user with a set of references so that every aspect can be verified and used for further exploration.
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Adjunct is built to help with three areas of legal work:
Research
- Drafting
- Compliance
Yes, the Adjunct subscription is a single price that is all inclusive. Paid subscribers get access to all current and future products.
Adjunct does not use any user data to train models or improve the product. The security of sensitive user data is a top priority for us and training models on user data would contradict that.
No, your query archive will only be available & accessible to you.
Adjunct uses industry grade encryption (both in transit and rest) built with Amazon Web Serivces's trusted platform.
While all generative AI outputs should be double checked, Adjuncts outputs are:
Rooted in primary legal source documents
- Accompanied by references back to the source documents
While all generative AI outputs should be double checked, Adjuncts outputs are:
National Legislation
Case Law
Coming Soon
Provincial Legislation
Regulation
Municipal Bylaws
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