Cari Legal
Check your contracts against Caribbean and African law, without sending them anywhere.
Cari Legal reads the contract you have open in Word and tells you which clauses break the law in the countries you are dealing with. It runs entirely on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no vendor to clear with your client before you can start.
671 rules across 73 rule sets · Works in Word, or from the command line
Two products, one promise
Cari Legalthis page
Check a contract against Caribbean and African law, clause by clause, inside Word.
Law firms, in-house counsel and government legal units
Cari Compliance Score
Score a bank's AML/CFT programme against its own law and the FATF standard, with the provision behind every finding.
Banks, their compliance officers, associations and supervisors
Score a programmeThe document never leaves you. Cari Legal runs on your own computer, and the Compliance Score runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and the hosted portal keeps only encrypted scorecards, never the documents.
What this costs you today
One agreement, checked against three countries, by someone who has to look up each Act as they go.
| Per contract reviewed | By hand | Cloud legal software | Cari Legal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to review one contract | 3 to 5 hours | 1 to 2 hours | ✓Under a minute |
| Cost at regional rates | $450 to $1,250 | $150 to $500 | ✓About $0.80 |
| Countries covered | Whatever is to hand | Europe and the US | ✓62 CARICOM & AU |
| Contract leaves the building | No | Yes | ✓No |
| Client sign-off before you start | None | 6 to 12 months | ✓None |
| Priced on | Billable hours | Per seat | ✓Per document |
Your contract never leaves your computer
Cari Legal sits in a side panel next to the contract you already have open in Word. It reads the clauses on screen and marks the ones that break the law of the countries you picked.
- Each problem is pinned to the clause that causes it
- Colour-coded so you can see what is serious at a glance
- Every finding names the section of the Act and says what to change
- Works with no internet connection at all
Unrestricted onward transfer to any jurisdiction
“The Data Processor may transfer personal data to any third party in any jurisdiction that it considers appropriate.”
Bind onward transfers to jurisdictions with an adequate level of protection, and keep a right of prior objection.
Data Protection Act, 2020 (JM), Second Schedule, Eighth Standard
No personal data breach notification obligation
The controller must reach the NDPC within 72 hours, so the processor's clock has to be shorter.
Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, s.40
Check one contract against 62 countries at once
A bank in Kingston hiring staff in Lagos has to get both Jamaican and Nigerian law right. Most legal software only checks European and American rules, and passing those tells you nothing about either.
- Employment law for 9 CARICOM countries and 53 African Union countries
- Data protection law for 9 countries, plus CSME and AfCFTA trade rules
- Pick the countries you are dealing with and review them together
- Every build records exactly which version of each rule set produced a finding
and 48 more. 671 rules in total. Every rule names the section it comes from and what to change.
One template, the right clause per country
Write your standard agreement once. Tell Cari Legal which country you are signing in and it swaps in the clauses that country requires. It cannot add wording of its own.
- Mark up your own template with the clauses that change by country
- Names, dates and figures are pulled from your term sheet
- If it would have to invent wording, it stops instead
- What comes out passes the review for the country it was built for
Master template
4. TRANSFERS
{{#if jurisdiction=JM}}
4.1 …adequate level of protection…
{{/if}}Assembled for Jamaica
4.1 The Data Processor shall not transfer personal data outside Jamaica unless the destination ensures an adequate level of protection…
The guarantee
Anyone can say “your data never leaves your computer”. Here is what stops it.
These are four things the software is built so it cannot do, not four promises on a security questionnaire. Each one is tested every time the code changes, and your own IT team can read the tests.
There is nowhere to upload a file
The add-in reads the document you already have open in Word. It has no file picker, nothing to drag a file onto, and the part of the software that does the review has no way to receive a file even if you wanted to send one.
Other computers cannot reach it
Cari Legal accepts requests from your machine and nowhere else. If it is ever told to accept them from the network, it refuses to start instead. No setting, config file or command-line switch can change that.
Billing counts pages. It never sends them.
To bill you, Cari Legal reports how many pages were reviewed and when. That message is a time, three ID numbers and three counts. It has no field that can hold text, so no part of your contract can travel in it.
It cannot invent wording
When Cari Legal assembles a document, it checks every word against your template and your own figures before handing it back. If a word came from neither, it refuses to produce the document. The drafting stays yours.
Choose how you would like to be billed
A sole practitioner working one jurisdiction
- Any one jurisdiction at a time
- 50 contract reviews a month
- Word add-in and command line
- Upgrade to review four at once
A commercial firm doing cross-border work
- All ten rule packs, four at a time
- 500 reviews a month, credits roll over
- 10 seats
- Template assembly with per-country clause swaps
- Local-mesh collaboration
Beyond that $1.2 a review. Unused credits roll over.
Start with ChambersCentral banks, conglomerates and in-house teams
- Every rule pack, no concurrency cap
- 5,000 reviews a month, credits roll over
- Unlimited seats
- Admin console and device revocation
- SSO and SCIM
- Priority on new jurisdictions
Beyond that $0.6 a review. Unused credits roll over.
Start with EnterpriseThis is the regional rate, for firms based in CARICOM or an African Union member state. Firms based elsewhere pay double. You can sign up, pay and download in one sitting. There is no sales call.
Ministry legal units and Attorney General's chambers
Government legal units do not buy this from a pricing page. If your ministry is already on Cari, Cari Legal is an add-on at $1,499 per agency per month. You switch it on from your own dashboard. There is no procurement cycle and no per-lawyer licence count to negotiate.
- Every rule pack, no concurrency cap
- 2,500 reviews a month across the agency
- 50 workstations
- Device revocation and an audit trail
- Provisioned from this dashboard — no procurement cycle
Cari Legal points a qualified lawyer at clauses worth a second look. It is not legal advice, and a review that finds nothing is not an opinion that your document complies with anything. It does not read scanned images, spreadsheets, court pleadings, board resolutions or estate documents, and it tells you so rather than handing back an empty review.
On how the rules were built: 21 of the 73rule sets were written with the official text of the Act open. The rest were built from government summaries, ILO databases and law firm guides because the official text was not published online, was behind a counter, or was in a language we have not yet had translated. Those are labelled “provisional” in the product itself, and every review that uses one says so on screen before it shows you a single finding. Where our sources disagreed on a number, the rule states no number rather than guessing. No rule set has yet been reviewed by a lawyer admitted in the country it covers.