Grounded legal research
Ask in plain language and get an answer built from Zimbabwean judgments and legislation, with every proposition attributed to the paragraph it came from.
Built in Zimbabwe, for Zimbabwean practice
The AI legal assistant that cites its authority
Research, draft and review against Zimbabwean judgments, legislation and your own precedents — with every answer tied to authority you can open and check.
From the team behind Uhuru Innovative, through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe fintech sandbox.
Question
Can an employer still terminate a contract of employment on notice?
The common law right to terminate on notice survives, subject to any express statutory limitation. 1 Notice periods are fixed by statute and run to three months for a contract without limit of time. 2
Authority
- SC 43/15 · para 6 · Supreme Court
- Labour Act [Chapter 28:01] · s 12(4) · Legislation
2 of 2 citations verified against the corpus before display
Illustration of a cited answer.
Overview
What is Gweta Online?
An AI assistant for legal work in Zimbabwe. It reads the judgments, legislation and statutory instruments that govern practice here, together with your firm’s own precedents, and answers questions from them.
The difference from a general chatbot is not the model — it is what sits around it. Answers are built from retrieved sources rather than recollection, every citation is checked against the corpus before display, and anything the corpus does not hold is reported as a gap rather than filled in.
Practically: you can check the work in seconds, because every proposition points at the paragraph it came from.
Capabilities
What it does
Six capabilities, each built on the same grounded corpus.
Authority graph
See what a judgment cited, what has cited it since, and how later courts treated it. Zimbabwe has no Shepard's or KeyCite — this is the closest thing to one.
Citation verification
Every citation is checked against the corpus before you see it. Anything that does not resolve is flagged rather than presented as fact.
Drafting in your house style
Pleadings, opinions, agreements and correspondence generated from your own precedents and the facts of the matter — not a generic template.
Matter document vault
Upload contracts, bundles and correspondence to a matter and interrogate them alongside the law. Firm material is isolated at the database level.
Repeatable workflows
Due diligence, lease and contract review, litigation preparation — defined once as a sequence of steps, then run against any matter with consistent output.
Use cases
How legal professionals use it
For litigators
Prepare a matter without losing the day to the library
Find the authority on a point, see whether it still stands, and pull the passages you need with citations already attached.
- Research a point of law with authority attached
- Check whether a judgment has been distinguished or overruled
- Draft heads of argument from your own precedents
- Interrogate a bundle alongside the case law
For transactional and in-house lawyers
Review and draft against the instruments that actually govern
Work through agreements with the relevant statutes and statutory instruments in view, and produce first drafts that start from your firm's own language.
- Review contracts against current legislation
- Extract obligations, deadlines and risks from an agreement
- Draft from your clause library and house style
- Run a repeatable due diligence review across a data room
How it works
Ask, retrieve, answer, verify
01
Ask
A question, a matter, or a document. Plain language, no query syntax.
02
Retrieve
Relevant judgments, statutes and your own precedents are found by meaning and by exact reference, then widened along the citation graph.
03
Answer
A grounded response, every proposition attributed to a paragraph you can open.
04
Verify
Citations are checked against the corpus before the answer reaches you.
Who it's for
Built for the people who carry the file
- Small and mid-size firms
- Research depth that used to need a library and a pupil.
- Large firms
- Consistent work product across teams, grounded in the firm's own precedent.
- In-house legal teams
- Contract review and regulatory questions handled in-house.
- Advocates and sole practitioners
- Preparation that keeps pace with a full brief and a court diary.
- Corporate and compliance
- Obligations tracked against the instruments that create them.
- Academics and students
- The citation network of Zimbabwean case law, navigable rather than assembled by hand.
Practice not listed? Tell us what you need.
The corpus
What it reads
Coverage is stated honestly, including where it is still being built.
Judgments
In buildConstitutional Court, Supreme Court, High Court registries and the Labour Court.
Legislation
In buildActs by chapter, with the statutory instruments that amend them.
The Constitution
In buildSection-level, as amended.
Your precedents
AvailableYour firm's own drafting, ingested privately and never shared.
Trust and governance
The part that matters
An assistant that invents a citation is worse than no assistant at all. This is how that is prevented.
It does not invent authority
Every citation in an answer is checked against the corpus before display. A citation that does not resolve to a real document, or that was not among the sources retrieved for that answer, is flagged rather than shown as fact. This is enforced in the system, not requested of the model.
It tells you what it could not find
Where an authority is cited but absent from the corpus, that gap is recorded and surfaced. You are told what an answer rests on and what it does not.
Your matter stays your matter
Firm documents are isolated at the database level, enforced on every query rather than by application code that can be got wrong. Shared law is readable by everyone; client material is readable by no one else.
The work remains yours to check
This is a research and drafting instrument, not advice and not a substitute for professional judgment. It is built to be verified — which is why every claim carries a source.
FAQ
Questions lawyers ask first
What stops it inventing case citations?
A verification step between the model and you. Every citation in a generated answer is parsed and looked up in the corpus. If it does not resolve to a real document, or was not among the sources retrieved for that answer, it is flagged rather than displayed as authority. The check is part of the system rather than an instruction to the model, so it cannot be talked out of it.
Which Zimbabwean law does it cover?
Judgments of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, the High Court registries and the Labour Court, together with legislation by chapter, statutory instruments and the Constitution. Coverage is being built out, and the product reports which cited authorities are not yet held rather than quietly omitting them.
Can it tell me whether a judgment is still good law?
It shows the citation network — what a judgment relied on, and what has relied on it since — and classifies how later courts treated it. Treat that as a research aid that surfaces what to read, not as a conclusion. The final judgment call remains yours.
What happens to our client documents?
Documents uploaded to a matter are isolated to your firm at the database level, enforced on every query. They are not added to the shared corpus, not visible to other firms, and not used to train models.
Does it replace a lawyer?
No, and it is not built to. It is a research and drafting instrument. It does not give legal advice, and the output is meant to be checked — which is the reason every claim carries a source you can open.
Can we use our own precedents for drafting?
Yes. Your firm's precedents and clause library are ingested privately and used as the starting point for drafting, so output reads in your house style rather than a generic one.
How is it priced?
Pricing is being set with the firms in the early access group. Get in touch and we will discuss what fits the size of your practice.
Who builds it?
Uhuru Innovative Solutions, a Zimbabwean software company that has taken products through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe fintech regulatory sandbox. Built here, for practice here.
Request early access
We are working with a small number of Zimbabwean firms while the corpus and the citation checks are put through their paces. Tell us about your practice and we will be in touch.