AI Analysis Disclaimer
STATUS: DRAFT — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — REQUIRES ATTORNEY REVIEW BEFORE PUBLISHING. This document was drafted by an AI assistant to give a South African attorney a concrete starting point, grounded in how the SA Legal Doc Summariser product actually works. It has not been reviewed by a qualified lawyer and must not be published, relied upon, or treated as compliant with any law until it has been.
[TODO: ...]markers show facts that need to be confirmed or supplied before this is publishable — do not delete them until they're resolved.
Last updated: [TODO: date of attorney sign-off]
1. Not Legal Advice
SA Legal Doc Summariser ("the Service") uses artificial intelligence (currently Anthropic's Claude models) to analyse contracts and other legal documents and produce a plain-English summary, including flagged risks and suggested questions.
The output of the Service is AI-generated general information only. It is not legal advice, does not create an attorney-client relationship, and must not be relied upon as a substitute for advice from a qualified South African attorney. Every analysis produced by the Service includes this same disclaimer directly in its output.
2. No Guarantee of Accuracy or Completeness
AI models can misread, misinterpret, omit, or "hallucinate" content that is not actually present in a document. The Service:
- may fail to identify a risk, clause, or legal issue that a human attorney would catch;
- may misstate the effect of a clause under South African law;
- is trained on general legal knowledge and does not have access to your specific business circumstances, the other party's intentions, or any facts outside the document text itself;
- analyses the document you provide as-is — it does not verify that the document is complete, unaltered, or the final version of what you intend to sign.
You are solely responsible for any decision made or action taken (or not taken) based on the Service's output.
3. Areas of Law Referenced
The Service's analysis may reference South African legal frameworks including, without limitation, the Consumer Protection Act, the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), the Companies Act, the Restraint of Trade doctrine, and general South African contract law. Referencing these frameworks does not mean the analysis is legally authoritative, current, or correctly applied to your specific situation — legislation and case law change, and the Service's underlying AI model may not reflect the most recent developments.
4. Before You Sign Anything
You should have any contract with material financial, legal, or operational consequences reviewed by a qualified South African attorney before signing it, regardless of what the Service's analysis says. The Service is positioned as a first-pass, affordable triage tool to help you understand what you're looking at and prepare better questions for an attorney — not as a replacement for one.
5. Limitation of Liability
[TODO: attorney to draft/confirm — this should tie directly to the limitation-of-liability clause in the Terms of Service (docs/legal/ TERMS_OF_SERVICE.md § 8) rather than duplicating separate wording here.]
6. Contact
Questions about this disclaimer: [TODO: public support/legal contact address — no public-facing address currently exists; see the Privacy Policy's own TODO on the same gap].