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Your legal copilot for every matter — from first question to final draft.
- Cited research
- Matter memory
- Live redlines
- Document intelligence
Enforceability of post-employment restraint clauses in software development contracts under Indian law?
Jurisdiction: India · Deep · 2 min ago
Under Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, post-employment restraint clauses are generally void except where protecting trade secrets. The landmark case Niranjan Shankar Golikari (1967) carved narrow exceptions during employment, but courts consistently strike post-termination restraints.
Statute
Section 27, Contract Act
Restraint of trade
Case law
Golikari v. Century Spg
SCR 1967 · Supreme Court
Most legal AI returnscitation-shaped text.8rney returns authority.
Every claim is resolved to a real authority and checked against the exact span that supports it. When the evidence is not there, the answer does not ship.
How the agent works
Quick for a known-law lookup, Deep when the question is novel, Manual when you want to steer. The depth changes; the standard does not. Nothing reaches you as a bare assertion, and a matter carries what your firm has already decided into the next one.
Research agent
Research that cites every statute it stands on.
Pick a mode — Quick, Deep, or Manual. The agent reads statutes, case law, and your own files in parallel, then streams a cited answer with follow-up prompts already teed up. You verify. It never invents.
- Three modes for depth versus speed
- Jurisdiction controls across India, US, UK, EU, Singapore
- Every claim traces back to a real source
- Follow-up prompts ready before you ask
Question
Limitation period for continuing breach of contract?
Answer · streaming
Under the Limitation Act, continuing breaches give rise to a fresh cause of action each day — relevant cases: Balkrishna Savalram (1959), Fyzunnissa Begum (1941).
Matter agent
The agent remembers the matter. You stop re-briefing it.
Every matter gets a workspace. Documents, research threads, analysis, and next steps live in one place — and the agent reads all of it. Come back in three months; it is up to speed before you are.
- Per-matter workspaces with status tracking
- Upload once, queryable forever
- Q&A grounded in your own files
- Archive or reopen — the context survives
Northline Employment
Processing · 72%
Aperture v. Halcyon
Processing · 48%
SaaS Vendor Review
Indexed · ready
Canvas agent
Draft live. Get redlined by your agent in real time.
Paste a contract or start blank. The agent scans clause by clause, flags indemnity gaps and one-sided liability, and proposes replacement language inline. Apply, discard, or rewrite — the call is still yours.
- Upload & Analyze for existing drafts
- Inline apply-or-discard for every suggested edit
- Risk scoring across liability, indemnity, and termination
- Jurisdiction-aware drafting templates
Section 8.2 · Indemnity
The Provider shall indemnify Customer for any and all losses arising from any cause whatsoever including but not limited to breach…
Suggested replacement
…losses arising from Provider's negligence or breach, capped at fees paid in the preceding 12 months.
Document intelligence
Scanned, messy, four hundred pages long. Still queryable.
OCR runs on ingest, a summary is generated per file, and the index stays citation-aware — so the library answers in your own words and names the file and section it drew from.
- OCR fallback for scans and image PDFs
- Plain-language summary on every upload
- Connectors for Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook
- Shared as context across every matter
Master Services Agreement.pdf
OCR · 34 pp · indexed
Golikari judgment (scan).pdf
OCR fallback · 12 pp
Board resolution — Meridian.docx
Summarised on upload
Retrieved as context in research, matters, and canvas — with the source named.
Built for your practice
An agent that works the way you do.
Generic legal AI gives generic answers. 8rney is tuned per practice area — the questions it asks, the clauses it flags, and the authorities it reaches for all change with the work.
Corporate & M&A
7.2 hrs
Before
42 min
With 8rney
Typical first-pass turnaround on a matter of this type.
Share Purchase Agreement
- Representations & warranties cross-checked against disclosure letter
- Indemnity cap reconciled with term sheet (18 months, 20% of consideration)
- Non-compete narrowed to match jurisdiction enforceability
The stack
One agent.The whole matter.
Six layers, one workflow. Each one feeds the next — research lands in the matter, the matter feeds the draft, and every correction you make sharpens what comes back next time.
- Every answer shows the source it stands on
- Your files are never used to train shared models
- Matter context is isolated, matter by matter
Work creates corrections · corrections tune retrieval · the next answer lands closer
How it runs
Three steps. No prompt engineering.
You brief it the way you would brief an associate — then review what comes back.
- 01
Open a matter
Drop in a question, a case name, or an incoming contract. The agent reads everything you upload — once, not every session.
- 02
Pick the mode
Research, Draft, Review, or Analyze. Each mode is tuned for depth, speed, or precision — the agent adapts to the work.
- 03
Review the output
A cited brief, a redlined draft, a risk summary — delivered ready to review. Your judgment is the last step, not the first.
Bring us the hard one
Bring us your worst matter.The one nobody wants to open.
The four-hundred-page bundle. The contract with three conflicting amendments. The research question that has been open since Tuesday. Start there — that is where the difference shows.
Open a matter
Drop in a question, a case name, or an incoming contract.
Pick the mode
Research, Draft, Review, or Analyze — tuned for depth or speed.
Review the output
A cited brief, a redlined draft, a risk summary. Your judgment is the last step.