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Legal AI for Indian advocates · Closed beta

Drop a file.Direct the work.Sign what’s right.

Brief it in a sentence or drop the file. Agents open the matter, work Supreme Court judgments and the Indian statute corpus, read every document and draft the next step, all at once. Answers cite their sources. Every decision waits for you.

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  • Supreme Court judgments
  • BNS · BNSS · BSA 2023
  • Matter playbooks
  • Your own templates
  • Supreme Court judgments
  • BNS · BNSS · BSA 2023
  • Matter playbooks
  • Your own templates

How it works

You direct the work.You make the calls.

Hand ViciLex work the way you would hand it across your desk. Check what comes back. Decide what gets used.

YouViciLex

You ask the research question.

ViciLex searches Supreme Court judgments and Indian statutes and answers with citations you can open.

You pick a template and fill in the details.

ViciLex prepares a first draft for you to revise.

You upload a document for review.

ViciLex lists the points it found, for you to check.

You create the matter, drop in its files or describe it in a conversation.

ViciLex proposes the parties, dates and issues and flags what is missing. You confirm the details.

You record the evidence calls.

ViciLex keeps each one on the matter as a recorded call.

Intake

Drop the file.Confirm the matter.

No form, no category picker, no setup. ViciLex reads the document and proposes the matter: type, parties, forum, dates, issues. You confirm it, and the work starts.

New matter
Kaveri_v_Sona_Section34_Order.pdf
Document
Order under Section 34 · Arbitration
Parties
Kaveri Infotech Pvt. Ltd. v. Sona Retail Ltd.
Forum
Commercial Court, Bengaluru
Key dates
Award 12 Aug 2025 · Set aside 3 Mar 2026
Issues
  • Patent illegality
  • Section 37 appeal
  • Limitation
Matter opened
Example matter, for illustration.

Command

You give the direction.A team of agents does the legwork.

Brief ViciLex the way you’d brief your associates. It splits the work into streams (reading the file, finding authority, testing the other side’s best argument, drafting), runs them at the same time, and goes deeper than an afternoon allows. Every judgment call comes back to you.

Matter Kaveri Infotech v. Sona RetailYou're directing 4 agents

Your instruction

You

Assess grounds to appeal the Section 34 order under Section 37. Pull Supreme Court authority on patent illegality, test the respondent’s likely reply, and draft the appeal memo.

Plan
  1. Read the file
  2. Find the authority
  3. Test the other side
  4. Draft

Agents at work

  • AnalyzeDone
    List of dates built · award, petition, order
  • ResearchDone
    8 judgments ranked · 2 controlling
  • OppositionDone
    2 contra-judgments flagged
  • DraftDone
    Memo ready · 6 judgments cited

Your calls

Approved by you

Two lines of attack. Lead with Section 34(2A) and hold perversity in reserve?

Ready for your review

Appeal memo drafted. Six pages, six judgments, each one linked to the full text.

Every decision you record stays on the matter.

Example matter, for illustration.

Research

Ask it like a colleague.Read the authority yourself.

Describe the issue in plain language. The answer cites what it relied on, flags the strongest authority against you, and opens each one to the full text. Follow any case to what it cites and what later cites it.

Can a court set aside a domestic arbitral award for patent illegality after the 2015 amendment?

Yes, but narrowly. The illegality must appear on the face of the award. A court cannot re-appreciate evidence or substitute its own reading of the contract.

  • Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. v. NHAI(2019) 15 SCC 131
    Controlling
  • Delhi Airport Metro Express Pvt. Ltd. v. DMRC(2022) 1 SCC 131
    Applies
  • Associate Builders v. Delhi Development Authority(2015) 3 SCC 49
    Explained
  • ONGC Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd.(2003) 5 SCC 705
    Contra · narrowed

Later judgments citing Associate Builders

  • Ssangyong Engineering v. NHAI (2019)
  • PSA SICAL Terminals v. V.O. Chidambranar Port Trust (2021)
  • Delhi Airport Metro Express v. DMRC (2021)
Example matter, for illustration.

  1. You set the direction

    One instruction in plain language. The plan comes back for you to see before anything runs.

  2. They work in parallel

    Reading, research, the other side’s case and the draft move at once, each showing its reasoning.

  3. Nothing passes a decision without you

    Strategy, emphasis, what goes out. The agents stop and ask.

The changeover

The FIR is under the old code.The trial runs under the new one.

Three statutes changed at once, and matters that straddle the transition still have to be argued. ViciLex carries BNS, BNSS and BSA 2023 in its statute library, alongside Supreme Court judgments from 1950 to 2026.

In forceReplaced

BNSBharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Indian Penal Code1860

BNSSBharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Code of Criminal Procedure1973

BSABharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

Indian Evidence Act1872

Put a matter through it

Playbooks

Your playbook.Your way of running a matter.

Build the workflow you’d hand a new associate: stages, tasks, and what each task waits on. Save it, share it across the firm, and run it on the next matter. As each dependency clears, ViciLex proposes the next task. You approve it or change it.

PlaybookAward challenge · Section 37Built by you
Run on Kaveri v. Sona

  1. 01Intake

    • Facts & list of dates
      Done
    • Certified copies checklist
      Added by youDone

  2. 02Pleadings

    • Memo of appeal
      Waits on Facts & list of datesDone
    • Grounds of appeal
      Done

  3. 03Record

    • Compilation of documents
      Done
    • Synopsis
      Waits on Compilation of documents

      Proposed next

  4. 04Arguments

    • Written submissions
      Waits on Synopsis
Example matter, for illustration.

Drafting

Your templates.Filled from the matter.

Save the formats your practice already uses as templates: letters, notices, memos, motions. ViciLex proposes the next step, fills your template from the matter’s facts and research, and puts every citation in place. You revise and sign.

NEXT ACTIONFile the appeal under Section 37, within limitation

Kaveri Infotech Pvt. Ltd. v. Sona Retail Ltd. · Memo of appeal

The Appellant, Kaveri Infotech Pvt. Ltd., impugns the order dated 3 March 2026 passed by the Commercial Court, Bengaluru, setting aside the award in its favour. The Court re-appreciated the evidence before the tribunal, which Section 34(2A) does not permit.[1] The Respondent, Sona Retail Ltd., did not plead that any illegality appears on the face of the award.

[1] Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. v. NHAI, (2019) 15 SCC 131.

Saved to the matter, ready for your edit

Example matter, for illustration.

Read the file

Every findingpoints to its clause.

Run a one-click review on any document (Contract Assessment, Clause Extraction, Compliance Mapping) and follow the reasoning as it works. Each finding points to the clause it came from. Then ask one question across every document in the matter.

MSA · Kaveri Infotech / Sona Retail.pdf
Contract AssessmentClause ExtractionCompliance Mapping
  • Summarised 42 pages
  • Located 26 clauses and where each one sits
  • Compared positions against a standard vendor baseline
  • HighIndemnity is uncapped for third-party IP claimsCl. 9.2
  • MediumSeat of arbitration is not specifiedCl. 17.3
  • NoteEither party may terminate on 15 days’ noticeCl. 12.1

Across all 6 documents: which ones change the liability cap?

Two. Addendum 1 raises the cap (cl. 2), and the work order dated 8 January carves out data breaches (cl. 5.4).

Example matter, for illustration.

Matter memory

Weeks later,it still knows the file.

Research, drafts and your decisions stay with the matter. Come back to it and ask the follow-up without explaining anything again.

Kaveri Infotech v. Sona Retail

  • Research · 8 judgments on patent illegality
  • Draft · memo of appeal, v3
  • Your call · lead with Section 34(2A)

Three weeks later

What did Sona concede about the delivery delay in its reply before the tribunal?

It conceded the shortfall came from its own vendor, not from Kaveri. The order under appeal does not deal with that admission.

  • Reply, para 14
  • Award, para 41
Example matter, for illustration.

Coverage

Know the edgesbefore you rely on it.

  • Supreme Court of India judgments, with citation lineage
  • The Indian statute corpus, including BNS, BNSS and BSA 2023

High Court judgments are loading court by court. We started where binding precedent lives: every High Court follows Supreme Court authority.

Your data

Your matters, your controls.

  • Encrypted

    In transit and at rest.

  • Shared on purpose

    A matter is visible to its owner and the people it is shared with.

  • Your calls, recorded

    Each decision you record stays on the matter.

Need it inside your own systems? Firms can have an installation of their own. Talk to us

Enterprise

An installation for your firm.

ViciLex offers custom installations on your firm's own infrastructure. The deployment, the configuration and the authority loaded for the jurisdictions you practise in are scoped with you before anything is signed.

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A person reads every one of these.

Bring your chamber in.

Set up the chamber or firm, invite colleagues with a code and give each person a role. A matter is visible to its owner and the people it is shared with.

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FAQ

Common questionsWhat advocates ask before they start.

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Does ViciLex give legal advice?

No. ViciLex is software for advocates. It finds authority, prepares drafts and organises matters on your instructions. How you use any of it is your professional judgment.

Who can sign up?

ViciLex is in beta, by invitation, for practising advocates and people working under their supervision. Request access and tell us about your practice. A person reads every request.

Can my clients use it?

No. Accounts are for advocates and the people who work with them.

How accurate is the research?

It can be wrong. That is why Assistant answers cite the judgment or section they rely on, with a link to open it. What an authority means for your matter is your call.

Does the AI make up cases?

Citations in Assistant answers and on judgment pages link to the source judgment or section, so you can open them and check. Citations inside a generated draft are text, so check each one against the judgment. No AI system is error-free: read the authority before you rely on it.

Can I use it for High Court matters?

Yes. Drafting, matters, reviews and statutes work whichever court you appear in. For case law you have Supreme Court judgments, which bind every court under Article 141, and High Court case law, loading court by court, so check your own High Court's latest decisions before you rely on a point.

Is ViciLex secure for confidential matters?

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. A matter is visible to its owner and the people it is shared with. Our privacy policy sets out how your content is handled.

How is ViciLex different from a research database?

A database gives you a list of judgments to read. ViciLex answers with the judgments it relied on, prepares a first draft you can edit, and keeps the matter in one place. You still read the authority you rely on.

What does it cost?

Pricing is shared with your invitation. Firms that want ViciLex installed on their own infrastructure can talk to us about what that takes.

Can I use it on mobile?

It works in your phone's browser.

Bring the next matter.Keep every call.

ViciLex is in beta, by invitation, for practising advocates. A person reads every request.

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Assistant answers arrive with their authority attached. Open it before you rely on it.