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Errors get through
A junior misquotes a definition. The statute says one thing. The memo says another. No one catches it before it reaches the client.
Nothing leaves your firm until it is correct.
Dara sits inside Microsoft Word and reviews legal documents against your sources before anything leaves the firm. It identifies conflicts and unsupported claims, recommends fixes and assigns a Consistency Grade.
Law, client briefs and firm sourcesEvidence behind every findingConsistency Grade before send
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8. Confidentiality
The Seller may disclose Confidential Information to third parties.
Each party shall keep confidential all information received in connection with this Agreement and shall use it only for the Transaction.
This clause does not prevent disclosure required by law or a competent regulatory authority, provided that notice is given where permitted.
9. Warranties
The representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.2(a) shall survive for a period of 24 months following Closing.
The Problem
The most expensive hours in law are spent checking, not thinking.
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Senior time gets consumed
Partners and senior associates spend hours on accuracy work that does not require their judgment. It just requires their seniority.
03
Nothing is documented
When a conflict is missed, there is no record of what was checked and what was not.
£130k
Lost per senior lawyer
In unrecoverable review time each year
5–7 hrs
Per week, per lawyer
Spent on non-billable review work
48×
Return on investment
At Top 100 firm-level validation metrics
£87.5k
Recovered per fee earner
Based on 3.5 hours saved per document at £500 per hour
Fee-earner time recovery
Based on 3.5 hours saved per document across 50 matters at £500 per hour. The value of Dara is not the cost of the software. It is the time that flows back to the firm.
The Risk
Things still get missed.
AI adoption has moved faster than firm controls. Most lawyers are still working from fragments copied into generic tools, without the complete matter in view.
79%
of lawyers are using AI
10%
of firms have policies guiding it
Documented consequences
01
Mata v. Avianca
Consequence
$5,000 sanction
Lawyers submitted a brief containing fictitious cases generated by ChatGPT. The court imposed a fine and the failure became a standing ethics warning.
02
Park v. Kim
Consequence
Referral to committee
The Second Circuit referred an attorney to the grievance committee after she filed a brief with nonexistent citations generated by AI.
03
Wadsworth v. Walmart
Consequence
Admission revoked
A judge fined attorneys and revoked admission after they filed motions citing eight cases that did not exist anywhere in law.
The Gap
The tools built to help have not solved this.
Harvey
Research and first drafts
Harvey accelerates legal research and turns instructions into a first draft.
What's missing
A final check of the finished document against the statute, client brief, or other sources selected for the matter.
Microsoft Legal Agent
Document analysis and redlining
Microsoft Legal Agent helps lawyers analyse, negotiate, and redline documents inside Word using firm playbooks.
What's missing
A matter-specific final gate that keeps unresolved conflicts visible before send.
Spellbook
Clause review and redlining
Spellbook benchmarks clauses, flags non-standard terms, and speeds up contract review.
What's missing
Verification against the governing law, with every finding resolved before the document leaves.
The Dara Standard
These tools make lawyers faster. Dara makes what they produce certifiable.
The Solution
This is where Dara comes in.
Dara sits directly inside Microsoft Word. When a document is ready, it reads it against three authoritative sources simultaneously, acting as a rigorous final gate.
Authoritative context
The document is never read in isolation.
The open web is not a source. Dara reviews against the material selected for the matter.
Audit in practice
Citation audit
If a case is cited that does not exist anywhere in law, Dara flags it immediately.
How It Works
Open a matter. Set your sources. Run the review.
One panel inside Word. No new software to learn. No documents leaving your server. Ready inside Word in under ten minutes.
Open or create a matter
Every review runs inside a matter. The matter holds the document, the reference sources, and the findings log. Work across multiple matters simultaneously without losing context.
Product In Action
See how Dara reviews a document inside Microsoft Word.
The screens below show each step of the review process, from opening a matter and selecting sources to resolving findings and completing the final check.
01 · Matter Setup
Active matter and review sources
The user starts inside Word with an active matter, attached client brief, firm precedent, and jurisdiction-specific legal library sources ready for the review.
Active matter selected
Client brief attached
Legal sources enabled
02 · Results
Score and ranked findings
After the review, Dara returns the same structure the application uses now: matter context, a Consistency Grade, and findings grouped as Hard Conflicts, Soft Conflicts, and Omissions.
Consistency Grade returned
Findings ranked by category
Sources attached to findings
03 · Finding Detail
Document text against exact source
Opening a finding shows what the draft says, what the reference says, and the reason the mismatch matters before any rewrite is applied.
Draft and source compared
Exact passage cited
Legal impact explained
04 · Apply Fix
Preview the rewrite before applying
The product does not silently change the document. It shows the proposed replacement, the source used, and then applies it back into Word after acceptance.
Replacement shown in full
Supporting source retained
Apply only after approval
05 · Grounded Chat
Ask questions with matter context loaded
Workspace chat uses the same active matter and reference set, with citations back to the uploaded materials instead of a generic answer.
Matter context loaded
Citations in the answer
Draft and sources queried
06 · Pre-send Gate
Resolve findings before send
The end state is not a pretty report. It is a cleared checklist that tells the senior lawyer which conflicts are resolved and which still block send.
Resolution status visible
Outstanding blockers tracked
Ready-to-send decision
Active matter and review sources
Clearwater Payments · PSR 2017 Advice.docx
Matter references
Clearwater Payments · UK regulatory advice
Client briefPSR 2017FCA Handbook
Client brief
Firm precedent library
UK — Payment Services Regs 2017
UK — FCA Handbook
Active matter and review sources
Clearwater Payments · PSR 2017 Advice.docx
Matter references
Clearwater Payments · UK regulatory advice
Client briefPSR 2017FCA Handbook
Client brief
Firm precedent library
UK — Payment Services Regs 2017
UK — FCA Handbook
Step 01 · Matter Setup
Active matter and review sources
The user starts inside Word with an active matter, attached client brief, firm precedent, and jurisdiction-specific legal library sources ready for the review.
Active matter selectedClient brief attachedLegal sources enabled
What A Finding Looks Like
Every finding tells you exactly what is wrong, where it is, and how to fix it.
Not a vague warning. A specific conflict with the exact text, the exact reference, a plain explanation, and a proposed rewrite shown in full. Take actions in one click.
A. Statutory Definition Mismatch
Dara reviews your payment service definition against the Payment Services Regulations 2017.
Dara Review
1 / 3
0 resolved
B. Statutory Inversion Error
Dara catches an inverted definition under the Payment Systems and Services Act 2019.
Dara Review
2 / 3
0 resolved
The Pre-Send Gate
The document does not leave until it passes.
Before any document is sent externally, Dara runs a final check. Every finding must be resolved or explicitly accepted with a note. When the document passes, a record is saved.
The score. The findings. The resolutions. Who reviewed, and when. That record exists whether a client ever challenges the advice or not. It is the difference between a firm that can demonstrate its review process and one that cannot.
C
Initial Consistency Grade
The grade updates as conflicts are resolved.
C
After resolution
9
Findings
8
Solved
Hard conflicts
2 of 2 resolved
Soft conflicts
3 of 4 resolved
Omissions
3 of 3 resolved
Resolving findings improves the Consistency Grade. Any finding left open remains visible before the document is sent.
Security and Privacy
Private by architecture. Not by policy.
Dara gives each firm an isolated environment for document review. Your documents remain separate from other firms' data and are never used to train shared models.
Lawyers work through the Dara add-in in Microsoft Word. Findings, supporting evidence, and suggested revisions return directly to the document.
Microsoft Word
Review begins in the document
Dara add-in · authenticated user session
Isolated Environment
Firm documents are processed separately
Separate from other firms' data · no shared model training
Dara Review
Findings return inside Word
Evidence and suggested revisions included
Who We Serve
Built for two markets. Designed for the bridge between them.
Dara is not a generic contract checker with a jurisdiction label. It is built around the way UK and African transaction teams actually move documents.
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UK transactional lawyers
£87,500
billable time returned per fee earner
For teams where documents move fast and the final accuracy check is the bottleneck. Dara keeps the senior lawyer in control while making the review structured, evidenced, and repeatable.
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African law firms
Built for local law
not adapted after the fact
For firms advising in jurisdictions where precision depends on the actual underlying law. Dara was built by Ghanaian lawyers for statutes, regulations, and market practice that other tools ignore.
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Firms working across both
UK + Africa
one review layer across the deal
For cross-border transactions where the risk sits on both sides. Dara gives teams a single accuracy workflow when UK law, African law, client instructions, and firm precedent all need to line up.
Same product, same private architecture, different legal context per matter. The lawyer chooses the sources; Dara enforces the review discipline.
Matter-awareThe Team
Built by people who know the work.
The team behind Dara has closed cross-border transactions, guided companies through regulatory complexity, shipped legal software, and engineered private systems in finance. That experience determines how Dara reviews, explains, and protects firm work.
Legal workflow
Cross-border judgement
Dara’s review workflow is shaped by a Ghanaian cross-border finance lawyer ranked in the Legal 500 EMEA. He holds an Oxford MSc in Law and Finance and has advised on and closed transactions with an aggregate value of more than $1 billion. The product reflects the discipline required when a document must be right before it leaves the firm.
Experience
- Legal 500 EMEA
- Oxford MSc in Law and Finance
- $1bn+ in completed transactions
Product & regulation
Legal practice, turned into software
Dara’s product and engineering are led by a Ghanaian barrister, corporate and regulatory lawyer, and software engineer. For more than five years, he has helped startups and established businesses launch, operate, and scale across African markets. He holds an MSc in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, is a MEST Africa alumnus, and has shipped four legal technology products spanning contracts, legislative intelligence, and advocacy training.
Experience
- MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
- MEST Africa alumnus
- Four legal technology products shipped
AI infrastructure
Designed for sensitive firm work
Dara’s AI infrastructure is designed by an engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and experience building private systems at Morgan Stanley. That background shapes the product’s approach to security, reliability, and control over sensitive firm data.
Experience
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
- Morgan Stanley engineering experience
Early Access
Bring Dara into your review process.
We are inviting a small number of law firms to work with Dara ahead of its wider release. Tell us about your firm and we will arrange an introduction centred on your documents, your sources, and the way your team reviews.
The first conversation is about your firm—not a generic product tour.
We will focus on the documents your team handles, the checks that matter, and whether Dara is right for the way your lawyers work.
Prefer email? team@daralegal.co
For Investors
The acquirers are already in the market.
£136M
SAM — UK Top 100 alone
$11B
Harvey's last valuation
$6B
Legal tech funding in 2025
The African legal technology market has no incumbent. Microsoft acquired the Robin AI team. The acquirers are already in the market. The asset they will need is being built now.
We are raising our seed round.