Platform overview
Start building with the Laws.Africa Legal Knowledge Platform.
The Laws.Africa Legal Knowledge Platform helps developers build products that use authoritative African legal information.
The platform has two complementary APIs:
Knowledge Bases retrieve relevant legislation and judgment context for AI grounding, RAG, legal agents, search and workflow tools.
Content API provides full legislation content and metadata in structured formats for deeper integrations.
Most new integrations should start with Knowledge Bases. They are easier to prototype with because Laws.Africa handles ingestion, indexing, embeddings and updates. Your application sends a query and receives relevant legal context with metadata and public source links.
Use the Content API when you need direct access to full legislation collections inside your own infrastructure.
How the products fit together
Knowledge Bases are for retrieval. They answer the question: "What legal material is relevant to this query?"
The Content API is for content access. It answers the question: "Give me this legislation, in this format, so I can store, render or process it myself."
How to get started
Prototype with Knowledge Bases
Create a free platform account.
Get an API token.
Query a Knowledge Base with a legal question or search phrase.
Use the returned text, metadata and public URLs in your app, search interface or AI workflow.
Build a deeper Content API integration
Choose the country or locality you need.
Fetch works and expressions.
Store the legislation and metadata you need.
Use webhooks or polling to keep your copy up to date.
Plans and access
The membership plans support a progression from experimentation to production:
Sandbox for free experimentation with one country and limited daily usage.
Build for production Knowledge Base workflows in one country.
Scale for broader coverage, higher usage and full Content API access.
See pricing and plans for developer-facing plan details, limits and current pricing guidance.
Use Manage your plan and subscription to learn how to check active services, change your primary API country, request plan changes and monitor usage in the platform.
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