OHADA harmonizes business law across 17 member states — but researching it still means digging through scattered PDFs, outdated versions, and jurisprudence nobody indexed. Akili Juridique makes the entire OHADA corpus instantly searchable, with every answer cited to the exact article, and adds a national-law layer for the jurisdictions where your practice runs deepest.
The conversion requires an extraordinary general meeting, a valuation report, and updated statutes filed with the Registry. Because this falls under the Acte Uniforme AUSCGIE, the requirement is identical whether the company is registered in Kinshasa, Abidjan, or Douala.
OHADA's Actes Uniformes and CCJA jurisprudence apply identically across all 17 member states — fully indexed and ready today, wherever your firm practices. On top of it sits your country's own national law: constitutional, electoral, banking, tax, and sector-specific texts OHADA doesn't harmonize. Akili Juridique is built as exactly that — a shared OHADA core plus a national module per jurisdiction. The Democratic Republic of Congo is the first module live, validated against real caseloads from practicing lawyers, and the same pipeline extends to any other OHADA state on request.
Akili Juridique is not a general-purpose AI pointed at your documents. It is a retrieval pipeline engineered for legal text — its enumerations, its cross-references, its revisions — and the same pipeline is what makes adding a new OHADA state's national module fast rather than a rebuild from scratch.
Texts are sourced from official OHADA and national portals and reconciled against the most recently promulgated version. Scanned official-gazette pages — the DRC's Journal Officiel today — go through an OCR pipeline to reconstruct complete, article-accurate statutes, regardless of jurisdiction.
Every article and alinéa is embedded into a FAISS vector index and separately indexed for exact keyword and article-number matching. Reciprocal Rank Fusion merges both, so a clause is never missed simply because it wasn't phrased the way it was searched.
When a decisive clause is buried inside a long enumeration, a supplementary reformulated chunk targets it directly — a technique that has moved critical articles from outside the top 20 results to rank #1, validated on both OHADA and national-law texts.
Retrieved passages — complete, never truncated — are passed as verified context to GPT-4o, which drafts an answer naming the exact Acte Uniforme or national code, article, and version it relied on. If the applicable text isn't in the corpus, Akili Juridique says so instead of improvising.
Corpus gaps are found and closed the same way retrieval quality is validated: against real dossiers from practicing lawyers, not abstract test queries.
AUSCGIE provisions, corporate formalities, and governance requirements surfaced with the exact article — the same answer whether the company sits in Kinshasa or Dakar.
Value: One reliable answer, any member stateJurisprudence surfaced only when genuinely relevant to the query — not a blanket boost that buries the applicable statute under unrelated rulings.
Value: Precedent research in minutes, not hoursEvery version of the DRC electoral law since 2006, reconciled — an example of the depth a national module reaches once it's built for a jurisdiction.
Value: No outdated citation riskThe three-layer structure of DRC banking law — abrogated, current, and incoming — kept distinct so a licensing dossier is never built on the wrong layer.
Value: Regulatory clarity across law versionsAll 388 articles indexed and cross-referenced, so a data-protection or platform-liability question is answered against the actual code, not a summary.
Value: Confident answers in an emerging fieldEven a clause buried deep in a long enumeration is surfaced at the top of results, thanks to targeted retrieval reformulation — a capability that carries over to any national module.
Value: Nothing relevant left unreadGeneric AI assistants know nothing about OHADA's structure or a member state's revision history. Akili Juridique knows nothing else — in law, "approximately right" is wrong, whether the citation is an OHADA-wide Acte Uniforme or a national statute.
Every answer names the Acte Uniforme or national code, the article, and the version it relies on. If the applicable text isn't in the indexed corpus, Akili Juridique says so — it does not improvise a citation your team could be held to.
Each firm's deployment is isolated. Dossiers uploaded for local enrichment stay inside that firm's instance. Only on the Ultra tier does a firm opt in to a shared, anonymized use-case layer — client identities and source documents never leave the firm that owns them.
The OHADA layer works identically in all 17 states from day one. National-law depth — multi-version reconstruction, OCR'd gazette scans, focused-chunk retrieval — is proven in the DRC and extends to your jurisdiction as a new module, not a new product.
"A lawyer citing the wrong version of an article — or the wrong member state's law — doesn't get a second chance in front of a judge. Akili Juridique was built on one rule, tested article by article against real dossiers: never approximate. — BAKAP DataLabs, forged in the DRC pilot deployment — the model for what comes next across OHADA."
Every tier includes the full OHADA layer, live across all 17 member states, plus at least one national law module. From a single-office deployment to a shared intelligence network across partner firms and jurisdictions.
Ultra firms opt in to a collective jurisprudence & use-case layer that grows Akili's coverage — including across OHADA member states as partner firms join. Only anonymized case patterns are shared: client identities and each firm's own documents never leave the firm that owns them.
We configure your workspace, ingest your firm's own dossiers for local enrichment, and validate retrieval quality against 5 of your real cases — the same standard used to close corpus gaps during the DRC pilot deployment. Delivered within 10 business days.
Tell us about your practice — size, main practice areas, and the OHADA jurisdiction you cover. We'll propose the right tier and walk you through a live query against OHADA or national law.
A member of our team will respond within one business day.