Trite is an AI-powered legal research platform built by legal practitioners for legal practitioners. It finds real South African case law in seconds and delivers concise mini-summaries so you can gauge relevance before reading the full judgment.

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Trite fixes the biggest pain points for South African legal professionals:

- Freely available case law can be difficult to search efficiently — Trite searches free online South African case law and returns local judgments with relevance signals and concise summaries.
- Research must stay grounded in the source — Trite grounds its research features in the judgments it retrieves and links you back to the source judgment.
- Billable-hour pressure — “Find the most relevant precedents in seconds.”
- Data-privacy duties — Trite runs on secure private servers and never exposes client data to public AI interfaces.

Trite streamlines legal research:

- Search case law and instantly receive mini-summaries.
- Quickly confirm if a judgment is relevant to your matter.
- Access deep-dive summaries for thorough insights.
- Upload your own judgments for immediate analysis.
- Ask contextual questions and surface key information instantly.

You can ask Trite anything about the case law you’re exploring. Examples:

- What legal principle did the Court establish?
- What test or standard was applied?
- What was the Court’s reasoning and outcome?

Need inspiration? See our suggested questions.

Yes! Trite currently supports:

- Microsoft Word (.docx)
- PDF (.pdf)
- Rich Text (.rtf)

Support for scanned PDFs and additional formats is on the roadmap.

Legal practitioners rave about the time savings and confidence boost Trite delivers. Read their stories on our testimonials page.

Pay only when you need deeper insight—no monthly subscription and no hidden fees.

Start free
• 25 complimentary credits are added to your account the moment you sign up — no card required.

Low-cost exploration
• Guided Discovery includes relevance scoring, key snippets, reasons, tags and quick summaries with the search results, so you can assess judgments before spending credits on deeper analysis.

Premium insights on demand
• Deep-dive summaries — 10 credits per judgment.
• Q&A concierge — 1 credit per question; answers delivered at no extra cost.

Need more credits? Choose a prepaid pack.
• Starter Pack — 200 credits for R199 (R1.00 / credit)
• Growth Pack — 600 credits for R499 — save about 17% (R0.83 / credit)
• Power Pack — 1600 credits for R999 — save about 38% (R0.62 / credit)

Buy credits only when your workload demands it and keep full control over research costs.

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