Practised in
South African law.
SenseFrame is a matter-based legal workspace built on South African law, for attorneys, advocates, legal teams and firms.
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One matter.
In full.
Artefacts, authorities, queries and drafts remain together in the context of the matter.
The world's best legal AI was never built for South African law.
SenseFrame was.
South African law is not a market segment. It is a legal system.
Roman-Dutch common law shaped by English procedure, governed by constitutional supremacy, interpreted through its own courts, its own precedent and its own legal tradition.
Global legal AI is built broadly and localised afterwards. SenseFrame took the opposite path.
One jurisdiction, taken seriously in full. From the Constitution down.
Jurisdictional AI
A system built from one legal system, for the practitioners who practise within it. It begins with the jurisdiction rather than localising to it afterwards.
South African law is our first language.
Every matter, mastered.
The complete matter, from first document to final draft.
Your first draft is ready for review. Should I add a tailored prayer defining "competing services" from A01 clause 5?
The matter is shared.
The context stays intact.
Bring colleagues into the same matter with deliberate access to the same artefacts, authorities, queries and drafts. Everyone works from the same context.
Control who can enter and work within a matter.
Colleagues work from the same record, authorities and queries.
Approved templates, precedents and firm knowledge remain available across matters.
What the firm builds, the firm keeps.
Approved templates, precedents and firm knowledge remain available across matters inside the firm's workspace.
Every answer, grounded in authority.
See the authority behind the proposition. The source stays visible so you can verify before you rely.
On the papers, the restraint is presumptively enforceable. The party resisting it bears the onus of showing that enforcement would be unreasonable . Cedar & Coast holds protectable interests in its trade secrets and customer connections, and the clause is directed at those interests .
The vulnerable element is territorial scope. A court weighing the employee's freedom to trade may find a nationwide restraint wider than reasonably necessary . Relief confined to the defined competing services is materially more likely to be enforced.
Employment Agreement, Naledi Mokoena
4. Confidentiality. The Employee acknowledges that in the course of employment she will have access to Confidential Information as defined in clause 3 and undertakes not to use or disclose it other than in the proper performance of her duties.
Clause 55. Restraint of trade. For a period of twelve months following termination of employment, howsoever arising, the Employee shall not, anywhere in the Republic of South Africa, be employed by or render services to any competitor of the Company in renewable-energy project advisory, commercial bid advisory or transaction-support services.
6. Non-solicitation. For a period of twelve months following termination, the Employee shall not solicit or deal with any client or active prospect of the Company with whom she had material dealings during the twelve months preceding termination.
Magna Alloys & Research (SA) (Pty) Ltd v Ellis
The Court considered whether covenants in restraint of trade should be regarded as prima facie unenforceable, as in English law, or as prima facie valid in accordance with the principle of sanctity of contract.
HoldingAgreements in restraint of trade are, in principle, valid and enforceable. A party who seeks to avoid such an agreement bears the onus of proving that its enforcement would be contrary to public policy, having regard to the circumstances at the time enforcement is sought.
The Court accordingly departed from the earlier approach and placed the burden of establishing unreasonableness on the party resisting the restraint.
Reddy v Siemens Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd
[15] The enquiry is whether the restraint is reasonable as between the parties and in the public interest, weighing the interest of the party seeking enforcement in protecting its trade secrets or customer connections against the interest of the restrained party in being economically active.
Paragraph 16[16] Section 22 of the Constitution guarantees the right to choose a trade, occupation or profession freely. That right must be weighed against the principle that agreements freely entered into should be honoured. A restraint that goes further than is reasonably necessary to protect the legitimate interest will, to that extent, be unenforceable.
[17] The Court confirmed the enquiry in Basson v Chilwan and applied it to the facts, enforcing the restraint to the extent necessary to protect the employer's confidential information.
Trace the proposition. Read the source. Apply your judgment.
The machine prepares.
The practitioner decides.
SenseFrame helps prepare the record, research and first draft. Judgment, strategy and professional responsibility remain with the practitioner.
The work carries your name. The final judgment remains yours.
Built from inside legal practice.
SenseFrame was shaped alongside practising South African attorneys, informed by more than 25 years of legal practice. Legal experience defines how the work happens. Engineering turns that understanding into the platform.
Catherine Coetzee
Practising attorney with more than 25 years of legal experience, including leading her own firm. SenseFrame was shaped by her firsthand experience of how legal work actually happens: from managing matters and records to research, drafting, review and professional judgment.
Confidential work demands deliberate controls.
SenseFrame is built to keep firm and matter information private, separated and accessible only to those authorised to work with it.
Each firm's workspace and matter data are kept separate from those of other firms on the platform.
Access is controlled at Matter level within your firm's workspace. Grant colleagues selective access to the matters they're working on through our secure collaboration system.
Your documents and matter data are not used to train public AI models.
SenseFrame is built on Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Security is an ongoing discipline.
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SenseFrame supports legal work but does not replace the practitioner's professional judgment.
Simple per-user pricing.
Start with a free 14-day trial. When you choose a paid plan, your total number of paid users sets one monthly price per user for your whole firm.
Every paid user gets the same SenseFrame platform. Your total number of paid users determines the per-user price, and that rate applies to every user on the account. For example, a five-user firm pays R2,800 per user per month.
Legal Assistant and Admin Assistant users are not charged. Users added during a month are charged pro rata for the rest of that month.
There is no minimum term and no cancellation fee. A Firm Administrator can cancel at any time, and access continues to the end of the paid month.
The 14-day trial is free for up to 5 users. No payment card is required, and the trial does not turn into a paid subscription on its own.
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Before you start.
A few practical answers about the trial and pricing.
South African attorneys, advocates, legal teams and firms. SenseFrame is built on South African law and organised around the matter, the way legal work is done.
Create an account and your firm gets 14 days of SenseFrame, free, for up to 5 users. You get the full platform, so you can try it on real work.
No. You can start the trial without a payment card, and the trial does not turn into a paid subscription on its own.
A Firm Administrator can choose a paid plan and add a payment card at any time. If no plan is chosen, access ends when the trial ends and nothing is charged.
R3,200 per month for a single user, R2,800 per user per month for 2 to 9 users, and R2,400 per user per month for 10 or more users. Legal Assistant and Admin Assistant users are free. Subscriptions are month to month, with no minimum term.
Every paid user gets the same platform: matters, artefacts, authorities, queries, drafting, templates, collaboration and firm knowledge.
Each firm's workspace and matter data are kept separate, access to matters is controlled within the firm, your data is stored in South Africa, and your content is excluded from AI model training. Explore our security approach
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