VakeelSaathi replaces the human munshi (legal clerk) for Indian advocates. Auto-syncs eCourts hearings, drafts BNS/BNSS-compliant petitions with AI, tracks outcomes, and runs your practice from WhatsApp, for less than one clerk's monthly salary.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋, I'm Joginder, founder of Decipher Consultancy Services. We build vertical SaaS for regulated Indian markets.
Most Indian lawyers hire a munshi, a clerk who tracks court dates, drafts petitions, follows up with clients, and files paperwork by hand.
A munshi costs each lawyer ₹15,000 to ₹30,000 per month and usually leaves the job every 18 months. With 2 million advocates in India, this creates a manual labour market worth about $5 billion per year.
Current legal tech in India falls into two groups:
(a) US tools like Clio and Casetext that do not work well with Indian court systems,or
(b) Local tools that only manage basic case lists.
No one was replacing the munshi role. I built VakeelSaathi to do this.
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What it does today
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Court intelligence
• Auto-syncs hearings from eCourts (India's judicial portal) so lawyers never miss a date
• Daily cause-list monitor with change alerts
• Hearing-outcome tracking with cause-effect timeline
• Opponent intelligence: shared cache of every advocate you'll face
• Judicial style profiles: crowdsourced patterns per judge (how they write orders, what arguments land)
AI grounded in law
• Petition/notice/contract drafting grounded in current statute (BNS/BNSS/BSA/DPDP Rules 2025)
• Indian Kanoon RAG pipeline — cites real judgments, not fake ones
• 200+ court-ready templates (affidavits, family law, property deeds, criminal complaints, civil suits, writ petitions, tribunal apps)
• FIR analysis: paste an FIR, get section-wise weaknesses
• OCR for court docs including regional-language scans
Marketplaces: digital munshi layer
• Briefs Exchange: 1-click hire a local advocate for an appearance in any court in India
• Digital Munshi Marketplace: hyperlocal task board (filings, certified copies, court runs)
• Ask-a-Senior: paid Q&A with senior counsel
• Expert witness + verified advocate directories
WhatsApp-based practice management
• Self-hosted Evolution API, no Meta approval bottleneck
• Command surface: "next date Sharma vs State" → instant reply
• Client updates, hearing reminders, invoice nudges all via WhatsApp
(because nobody in India opens a web app)
Full practice management
• Kanban task board with drag-and-drop
• Client portal with document sharing + e-sign (with audit trail)
• Trust accounting (client-fund segregation per BCI norms)
• Split billing, Zoho Invoice sync, GST-compliant invoicing
• Tax helper: GST RCM, 194J TDS, 44ADA presumptive
• Daily diary email, document version history, Excel exports
Free public tools (no login required)
• Bare Acts library
• Limitation-period calculator, court-fee calculator, stamp-duty calculator, IPC↔BNS section mapper
• 89-term legal glossary + comparison pages
Pricing is ₹799, ₹1,999, or ₹4,999 per month. Each plan costs less than hiring a clerk, which is a familiar comparison for buyers.
I welcome feedback from anyone building:
• Vertical SaaS for a regulated market
• AI grounding pipelines (RAG for domains where hallucination = lawsuit)
• Solo-founder monoliths that need to look like a platform
If you are interested in regulated-market SaaS, dCOMPLY, our compliance automation tool for Indian businesses, will launch in a few weeks.
Contact me on Product Hunt for early access.
For early access.
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Used it for a few days and the WhatsApp-based practice management actually feels less clunky than the apps I've tried. Drafting a Section 138 petition with the AI caught me off guard, it pulled in the right BNS sections without much prodding.
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@altmelis74860 Thanks, Melis! The auto-pull of BNS sections comes from grounding drafts in the actual Sanhita text we just finished importing from the official India Code today, so it should be even sharper now. Section 138 is a real stress test since it lives at the IPC/NIA overlap. Curious: anything else you tried that fell short?
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The eCourts auto-sync alone is worth it, I used to spend my mornings cross-checking cause lists manually and now it just shows up in WhatsApp before I even reach court. Petition drafting is solid for first drafts though I still tweak the language myself. Genuinely useful for solo advocates.
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@vedatmdxs Really appreciate this, Vedat. Turning that morning cross-check into an auto WhatsApp brief was the first workflow we built; mornings should be for court prep, not spreadsheets. On the drafts: what kind of tweaks are you doing? We're rolling out per-bench style profiles this month, and if you can share what you're editing (formatting, phrasing, structure), we'd love examples to tune it on.
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Congrats on the launch, this looks genuinely useful for solo advocates juggling eCourts and drafting. One thing I'd love to see is a built-in cause list exporter that also flags potential date clashes with your existing hearings, not just synced cases. That way the AI isn't only reacting to the court schedule but actively protecting you from missed or overlapping dates, which is where most clerks earn their keep.
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@berkayotip Thanks, Berkay! Date clash detection is a sharp suggestion; you're right that a synced cause list is passive, but flagging overlapping hearings across matters is where the real value is. Adding this to the roadmap. Quick question since you clearly know this space: would you want clash alerts only for confirmed hearing dates, or also for tentative next dates the AI predicts from case history?
Used it for a few days and the WhatsApp-based practice management actually feels less clunky than the apps I've tried. Drafting a Section 138 petition with the AI caught me off guard, it pulled in the right BNS sections without much prodding.
@altmelis74860 Thanks, Melis! The auto-pull of BNS sections comes from grounding drafts in the actual Sanhita text we just finished importing from the official India Code today, so it should be even sharper now. Section 138 is a real stress test since it lives at the IPC/NIA overlap. Curious: anything else you tried that fell short?
The eCourts auto-sync alone is worth it, I used to spend my mornings cross-checking cause lists manually and now it just shows up in WhatsApp before I even reach court. Petition drafting is solid for first drafts though I still tweak the language myself. Genuinely useful for solo advocates.
@vedatmdxs Really appreciate this, Vedat. Turning that morning cross-check into an auto WhatsApp brief was the first workflow we built; mornings should be for court prep, not spreadsheets. On the drafts: what kind of tweaks are you doing? We're rolling out per-bench style profiles this month, and if you can share what you're editing (formatting, phrasing, structure), we'd love examples to tune it on.
Congrats on the launch, this looks genuinely useful for solo advocates juggling eCourts and drafting. One thing I'd love to see is a built-in cause list exporter that also flags potential date clashes with your existing hearings, not just synced cases. That way the AI isn't only reacting to the court schedule but actively protecting you from missed or overlapping dates, which is where most clerks earn their keep.
@berkayotip Thanks, Berkay! Date clash detection is a sharp suggestion; you're right that a synced cause list is passive, but flagging overlapping hearings across matters is where the real value is. Adding this to the roadmap. Quick question since you clearly know this space: would you want clash alerts only for confirmed hearing dates, or also for tentative next dates the AI predicts from case history?