Vakeel Saathi

The Digital Munshi for India's 2M advocates

SaaS

Legal

Artificial Intelligence

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. ------------------------- What it does today ----------------------- 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.