A silk
for every case.

The electronic case file: client, parties, documents, consultation notes, tasks and time — with a stage pipeline per case type that shows exactly where each case stands, AI-suggested next steps, and a case-scoped chat grounded in the file. Move any chat into its case; find anything by a half-remembered word across notes, documents, chats and call transcripts. Firm-internal by design; every open is audited.

Role rates and VAT set once by the firm; time logged on a case is valued at the fee earner's rate or the case's own arrangement — hourly, fixed, contingency or pro bono. Disbursements sit beside the time, the unbilled total is always visible, and a fee note is raised in one click on the firm's stationery: computed from the entries, never composed by a model.

Record a client call or consultation, drop the audio in, and Silk transcribes it with speaker turns — then extracts the promises made, the actions agreed, the facts to document and the risks raised. File the lot into the case: a consultation note, tasks with owners and due dates, and the searchable transcript itself.

Chronology, case strategy, risk assessment, research memorandum, a draft bill of costs from logged time and your tariff — and a plain-language client update letter. Each grounded in the case's own documents, versioned, and exported to Word on your letterhead.

Every request is classified against the role's AI-use scope before a model ever sees it. Out-of-scope requests are declined, logged and routed to the firm's review queue — nothing slips through quietly.

Upload a document for a baseline review — strengths, weaknesses, risks — or measure it clause by clause against a firm position. Someone forgot track changes? Compare two versions and download a genuine tracked-changes Word file with the legally significant changes ranked.

The firm's preferred positions as reusable rules — starting position, preferred language, acceptable fallback — extracted from a gold-standard document or written by hand, then applied in chat and document review. Curated by your seniors; never leaves the firm.

Anyone submits a precedent; a senior approves it into the bank. Every approved precedent becomes a drafting base in chat — the assistant follows its structure, style and clause architecture, and flags departures.

Court and statutory periods — Uniform Rules, Magistrates' Courts, CCMA, PAJA, prescription, RAF — reckoned deterministically with South African public holidays, never guessed by a model. Strict periods warn instead of shifting; one click files the date as a case task.

One question across a pile of documents — “the deposit in each of these leases” — answered as a table, one row per document, exported to Excel. Pull every dated event out of a bundle into a chronology and fold it straight into the case.

Silk never asserts an authority as settled law. Suggested authorities arrive marked unverified with SAFLII links; cited Acts that positively resolve against the Laws.Africa consolidated database gain a verified legislation link — and nothing is ever labelled verified otherwise.

One-click drafts across practice areas, delivered as real Word documents — set the firm's typefaces, sizes, margins, letterhead and footer once and every export follows the house style. Ask for a different font in chat and that file honours it.

A firm-wide knowledge repository curated by seniors, searchable by meaning with hybrid retrieval. Photograph old paper — bound opinions, annotated statutes — page by page; the vision model transcribes each page and publishes the book for chat to cite.

A five-day usage allowance per seat with a live meter; role-based access to deep analysis; declined requests queue for reviewer decision with standing exceptions — and administrators see consumption per user and department as it happens.