AI Legal UKThe Counsel

A junior counsel in your pocket. Thirty-eight legal skills, twelve agents, and the entirety of England & Wales statute — assembled into a single quiet assistant for the work of reading, drafting and risking contracts.

Read any contract

Drop in a PDF, DOCX or scanned page. The Counsel returns a marked-up version with commentary, risk flags and the precise statute it relies upon. Five agents review in parallel and aggregate to a single Contract Safety Score.

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Draft from facts

Tell it the parties, the consideration and the term. Receive a clean NDA, employment contract, terms of service or board pack — citing English law, not Delaware. Six drafting skills covering the documents most contracts of England & Wales rely on.

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Reason like a panel

Twelve agents — junior counsel, senior counsel, devil's advocate, costs draftsman — debate before a single conclusion is reached. Three orchestrators (review, employment, corporate) aggregate weighted scores into one verdict.

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Live UK statute and caselaw

Wired to legislation.gov.uk and the National Archives Lex Graph (63,000+ judgments). In-force, commencement and amendment checks happen on every analysis, so the law you see is the law in force this morning.

An editorial broadsheet, not a SaaS dashboard

Warm cream paper, oxblood accent, Source Serif 4 and IBM Plex Mono. The Counsel is rendered as the way solicitors read — masthead, marginalia, drop-caps and Roman-numeral cells — because reading carefully is half the job.

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Open source under MIT

Use it commercially. Self-host the open-source build. Bring your own provider key (Anthropic, OpenAI, or OpenAI Codex CLI) — your contract text never touches our servers; the dashboard sends keys with each request and stores nothing.

The principle

In the matter of any contract before you, the question is rarely what does the document say. It is what the document does — to your money, your obligations, and the next twenty years of your professional life.

Specialist before general. Fact before form. The Counsel is built around how solicitors actually reason — not how chatbots usually answer.

Who the Counsel is for

Freelancers & contractors — Check your contracts for IR35 traps, unfair payment terms, and missing protections before you sign. Understand what that 20-page consultancy agreement actually says, in plain English.

Small business owners — Review supplier contracts without a solicitor on retainer. Generate NDAs for new partnerships. Audit your website's UK GDPR compliance. Get a second opinion on that lease renewal in seconds.

Property professionals — Analyse commercial leases clause by clause. Check tenancy agreements against the Renters' Rights Act 2025. Spot missing break clauses, unfair deposit terms, and repair obligations before they become problems.

In-house legal teams — Use the Counsel as a first-pass review tool so your solicitors can focus on the issues that actually matter, not reading boilerplate. Triage a stack of contracts in minutes; export an A4 PDF report for the file.

Developers & legal tech — Extend the platform with new legal skills, build on the API, contribute analysis domains, or integrate the MCP legislation server into your own applications. The entire codebase is open and documented.

Two editions of the Counsel

The web — easiest

The hosted edition lives at the-counsel.co.uk — sign up with email or Google and start. No installation, no command line. Drop in a document and watch the panel work clause by clause via SSE streaming. Six primary navigation entries — Chambers · Review · Generate · Caselaw · Library · Docs — with auxiliary pages for matter detail, judgment text, legislation lookup, comparison, history, pricing, onboarding and settings.

To self-host the open-source build:

bash

cd dashboard
npm install && npm run dev
# Open http://127.0.0.1:3000

Try it in demo mode first — no API key needed. Six pre-loaded fixtures show exactly what the reports look like. For a fresh production deployment to your own domain, see the deployment guide.

The CLI skills — for power users

If you already use Codex, Claude Code, or another compatible agent host, install the legal skills and run them directly from your terminal. Review contracts, generate documents, and run compliance checks without leaving your workflow.

bash

# One-line install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davendra/ai-legal-uk/main/install.sh | bash

# Then in your agent host
/legal review my-contract.pdf

England & Wales only

All analysis is scoped to the laws of England & Wales. Scottish, Northern Irish, and other jurisdictions are not covered.

Demo before live

Demo mode runs entirely on bundled fixtures with no network calls — the safest way to explore the editorial UI and see what every skill produces before you spend on a live request.

AI Legal UK · The Counsel — Established MMXXVI · Built for England & Wales · MIT