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AI legal agent · Built for Nigerian law

Legal work you can sign your name to.

Barilex takes a legal objective and works it through. It finds the Nigerian authorities, builds the argument, argues the other side, and checks every citation against the judgment it came from. You get the result, and every step that produced it.

Watch a sample matter How verification works

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What Barilex is

Chatbot

A chatbot answers a question.

Answers
Research assistant

A research assistant helps you investigate it.

Investigates
Barilex

Barilex takes the objective and does the work.

Plans · argues · checks · delivers

Research, reasoning, counter-argument, verification and drafting, run as one connected job instead of five tabs and a late night.

Why we built it this way

How it works

Give it the objective, not the keywords.

Barilex plans legal work the way a careful senior associate would: in stages you can watch, question and send back.

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reading instructions

Sample matter · fictional parties and citations

You

We sued Rivergate Water Corporation for breach of a supply contract. No pre-action notice was served. They filed a defence, took part for eight months, and have now filed a preliminary objection. Can we defeat it?

Barilex

Objective
Defeat the preliminary objection.
Issue for determination
Whether failure to serve a statutory pre-action notice defeats the suit where the defendant has filed a defence and taken steps.
Plan
Research · Reason · Challenge · Verify · Draft
BARILEX Understand

Verification

A citation can exist and still be wrong.

Most tools stop once a case turns out to be real. Barilex asks five separate questions of every authority, and tells you which ones it couldn’t answer.

Sample matter · fictional parties and citations

If it can’t be found, it doesn’t get cited.

Barilex locates every authority in its source material before it cites anything. A case it can’t find doesn’t reach your draft, however confident it sounds.

How lookup works
RemovedNo source found
Your draft · list of authoritiesp. 4
  1. Adeyemi v. Coastal Water Corporation (2009) 12 NWLR (Pt. 1155) 214
  2. Musa v. Northern Grid Authority (2016) 7 NWLR (Pt. 1512) 98
  3. Eze v. Harbour Ports Authority (2012)
  4. Rivergate Water Corporation Law, s. 31

The corpus

Every judgment, briefed the way you were taught.

Facts, issues, arguments, decision, ratio, obiter, orders, authorities. Barilex stores Nigerian judgments by their structure, so it can find the cases that share your issue, and not only your keywords.

11,000

Nigerian case records to start from. The count isn’t the point. A smaller library you can trust beats a bigger one you have to check.

Adeyemi v. Coastal Water Corporation

Sample record · fictional
Citation
(2009) 12 NWLR (Pt. 1155) 214
Court · date
Supreme Court · 10 July 2009
Facts
A supplier sued a state water corporation over unpaid invoices without serving the statutory pre-action notice. The corporation defended the suit for two years, then objected.
Issues
Whether the missing notice deprived the court of jurisdiction, and whether the corporation could still raise it.
Arguments
Appellant: the requirement is mandatory and goes to jurisdiction. Respondent: it is a procedural protection, and the appellant waived it.
Decision
Appeal dismissed. The objection failed.
Ratio
“The requirement of notice is a shield given to the defendant. He may raise it, or he may lay it down.”
Obiter
Remarks on whether a defective notice can be cured by a fresh one served after the writ.
Orders
Appeal dismissed. Costs of ₦500,000 to the respondent.
Authorities
7 cited. Followed in 4 later decisions. Overruled Danjuma (CA, 2006).

The authority graph

Cases don’t stand alone. Neither should your research.

Barilex maps how judgments treat each other: who followed whom, who distinguished, what was overruled. Every link points back to the passage that created it.

Follow a principle from the case that set it to the case that binds your court today.

Illustrative. In Barilex, every edge is backed by a passage in a judgment, never inferred by a model alone.

Who it’s for

From the moot court to the Court of Appeal.

The authorities, the counter-authorities and the page numbers, before the 9am mention.

You ›

Our appeal turns on whether the trial court should have allowed an amendment after close of pleadings. Build the argument, and find the cases against us.

Barilex hands back

A reasoned position, ready for your review

  • The authorities for it, Supreme Court first
  • The authorities against it, and how to distinguish them
  • Every citation checked against its source

For associates and practitioners

Professional responsibility

You stay the lawyer.

Barilex does the legwork. The judgment, and the signature, stay with you.

It shows its working.

Every conclusion links to the authority behind it, and every authority to its passage. You can follow any point back to the page it came from.

It labels what it doesn’t know.

A point that can’t be verified is marked unconfirmed. Barilex would rather leave a gap than fill it with something plausible.

Confidential by design.

Built with the NBA’s guidance on AI use in mind: client confidentiality protected, and a lawyer’s judgment in charge of every filing.

Pricing

Priced in naira, for Nigerian practice.

Proposed launch pricing. Final plans and usage limits are confirmed before early access opens.

Compare plans

Student

₦4,000a month

For coursework, moots and exam preparation.

Individual

₦12,000a month

For practitioners doing their own research and drafting.

Professional

₦30,000a month

For heavy research, drafting and verification, every week.

FAQ

Questions a careful lawyer would ask.

Something we haven’t answered? Tell us when you join the waitlist.

Is Barilex another legal chatbot?

No. A chatbot answers in one pass. Barilex plans the task, researches in stages, argues the other side, and checks its own work before you see it. Every step stays open for you to inspect.

How do I know the citations are real?

Barilex looks every authority up in its source material before it cites it, then checks the reference, the passage, the context and, where it can be established, the later treatment. Anything it couldn’t confirm is marked as unconfirmed.

Is this Nigerian law, or general common law with a Nigerian accent?

Nigerian law. Barilex is built around Nigerian judgments and statutes, and it knows which courts bind which. Foreign authority is labelled persuasive, because that’s what it is.

Will it replace my judgment?

No. You remain responsible for what you file, and Barilex is built around that. It shows its sources, flags its doubts, and leaves the decision with you.

What happens to client documents?

Confidentiality is a design requirement from the first line of code. Before early access opens, we’ll publish exactly how documents are stored, processed and deleted.

When can I use it?

Barilex is in development. We’re starting with one workflow done properly: a legal issue in, a verified argument out. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when early access opens.

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