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OHADA legal infrastructure

The AI legal infrastructure for the OHADA area.

Arbitra puts AI to work for African business law, giving lawyers, in-house counsel and institutions direct access to statutes, case law and legal writing - with precise, verifiable sources for every answer.

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A mandatory citation on every statementA corpus reviewed by lawyers17 States of the OHADA area targeted
Verified source
CCJA

« La caution solidaire ne se présume pas ; elle doit être expresse et ne se peut étendre au-delà des limites dans lesquelles elle a été contractée1. »

CCJA, 3e ch., 12 March 2024 - Ruling no. 047/2024, p. 14

The problem

OHADA law is harmonised. Access to it is not.

Scattered documentation

Statutes, uniform acts and decisions spread across heterogeneous sources, rarely centralised.

CCJA case law barely accessible

Thousands of rulings of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration remain hard to find and hard to cite correctly.

General-purpose tools, badly calibrated

General-purpose assistants do not know the OHADA corpus and produce references that cannot be verified.

Non-billable search time

Finding, cross-checking and verifying a source consumes hours the firm does not bill.

The platform

Five modules, one infrastructure.

Arbitra Research is available in the pilot. The following modules are being built with feedback from the first user firms.

ResearchRecherche juridique OHADA par intelligence artificielle sur les actes uniformes, la jurisprudence et la doctrine, avec citation traçable.Available at MVP
ContractsContract generation, risk analysis and management - templates, clause library, comparison and version tracking.Planned for V1
ArbitrationA dedicated environment for arbitration and mediation - awards, centre rules, procedural assistance.Planned for V2
SMELegal assistant for companies and SMEs - company formation and life, filings, everyday contracts, debt recovery.Planned for V1
ComplianceRegulatory watch and compliance - tracking legal developments, alerts, obligations and reporting.Planned for V2

Arbitra Research, the module available now

Natural-language search across the OHADA corpus, a written answer, and every statement openable down to the exact passage of the source document.

See the module page

Why it is different

Arbitra understands the relations between statutes, case law and procedures.

Unlike a keyword search, Arbitra links each question to its precise sources and to their legal connections - a decision, the uniform act it interprets, and the decisions that in turn cite it.

Classic search - documents returned in isolation
Arbitra Research - sources linked and cited

Geographic coverage

A progressive rollout across the OHADA area.

Silhouette of the African continent on a midnight blue background. A network of golden points joined by fine lines covers West and Central Africa, with a brighter point on the Ivorian coast and an isolated point in the Indian Ocean, linked back to the rest of the network.
Illustration of the area covered by the OHADA treaty - schematic representation, not a map.

MVP - under way

Côte d'Ivoire

Pilot corpus and first lawyer users.

V1 - at 12 months

Regional extension

CameroonSenegalBenin

V2 - at 24 months

The 17 member States

Progressive rollout across the whole OHADA area, Comoros included.

See the country-by-country rollout schedule

They trust us

Institutional partnerships and feedback from the first pilot users - published as soon as they are confirmed in writing.

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A 30-minute demonstration, on questions you bring. No commitment, and nothing to install.

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