> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://developers.laws.africa/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://developers.laws.africa/readme.md).

# Laws.Africa Developer Guide

Use the Laws.Africa Legal Knowledge Platform to build products grounded in authoritative African legal information.

The platform has two main APIs:

* **Knowledge Bases** help you retrieve relevant legislation and judgment context for AI grounding, RAG, legal agents, search and workflow tools.
* **Content API** gives you full legislation collections, structured formats and metadata for deeper integrations inside your own systems.

Start with Knowledge Bases if you want the fastest path to a working integration. Use the Content API when your product needs full local copies of legislation, point-in-time versions, XML, HTML, PDF, lifecycle metadata or webhooks.

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[Platform overview](/get-started/overview.md)
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[Quick start](/knowledge-bases/quick-start.md)
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[Choose Knowledge Bases or the Content API](/get-started/choose-an-api.md)
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[Pricing and plans](/get-started/pricing.md)
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## Start building

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[Knowledge Bases](/knowledge-bases/knowledge-bases.md)
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[Content API](/content-api/content-api.md)
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## Still not sure?

* [Pricing and plans](/get-started/pricing.md)
* [Contact us](https://laws.africa/contact)


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