Now in beta · Built in Kampala
Think like a lawyer, faster.
Ordus works through problem questions, essays and case law with you — issue, rule, application, conclusion — against every law in Uganda, with every citation verified.
- Problem questions
- Essay structuring
- Case briefs
- Past papers, timed
- Statutes & case law
- Moot preparation
- 1890s–now
- Corpus coverage target
- IRAC
- Structured-answer method
- Kampala
- Built in Uganda, 2024
Built for the people who serve Uganda's legal system
Our users come from these institutions, and the corpus is built from what they publish. They have not endorsed Ordus.
The problem
Legal AI already exists. It just isn't trustworthy — or built for Uganda.
The tools trained on American and English law confidently cite authority that does not say what they claim. In a jurisdiction whose statutes and judgments are barely digitised, they have nothing to cite at all.
- 198,554
- cases pending before Uganda's courts
- 1 : 64,000
- judicial officers to citizens
Hallucination rates: Stanford RegLab, “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools” (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2025). Court backlog and judicial-officer figures: Judiciary of Uganda statistics presented to Parliament, 2026.
Share of answers citing the wrong authority
Leading AI legal-research tools, measured by Stanford RegLab
Ordus
Every citation is resolved against the corpus before you see it. If it cannot be verified, the answer is withheld — you get “I don't know”, never a guess.
In beta — no independently measured rate yet, so none is claimed here.
How it works
Five checks stand between the model and your answer
A general chatbot writes a citation because it looks right. Ordus runs every citation through the same verification pass before you ever see it — and if a citation cannot survive that pass, the claim it supports does not reach you.
This pass cannot be skipped under load, disabled by a flag, or bypassed by a caller. If it cannot run, the system refuses.
- C0
Quote integrity
BlockThe quoted words must appear verbatim in the source block the citation names. An exact string match, run first because it costs microseconds and catches citations invented wholesale.
- C1
Resolution
BlockThe identifier is parsed, normalised to an FRBR URI, and looked up in the corpus. A miss is a hard block — no “probably meant”, no nearest-neighbour repair.
- C4
Pinpoint validity
BlockDoes s.31(1) actually exist in that Act? The pinpoint is the most fabricable part of a citation — real Act, invented subsection passes every superficial test and is still wrong.
- C2
Temporal validity
Flag or repairWas the provision in force on the date the answer is about? Repealed, not yet commenced, or amended since — each gets its own treatment rather than being silently ignored.
- C3
Support
Strip or blockDoes the cited text actually entail the claim made? If it is merely neutral the claim is stripped; if it contradicts, the whole answer is blocked.
Passes all five — you see it
Only then does a citation reach the answer, carrying its in-force status and a link to the provision itself so you can check our work.
The platform
Six ways Ordus helps
One verified corpus, one citation-verification pass, six surfaces built for how each part of Uganda's legal system actually works.
Learn
Problem questions worked through with you — issue, rule, application, conclusion. Past papers, case briefs, and feedback on your own attempt rather than an answer handed over.
Where most of our users start today
Research
Ask a question, get a cited answer. Every citation resolves to a real, verified, in-force provision — or Ordus says it doesn't know.
Understand
Upload a contract, a summons, a land title. Get a plain-language explanation with the governing law cited.
Draft
Pleadings, agreements, and conveyancing assembled from a verified Ugandan precedent library, never freely generated.
Guide
Legal information and document assembly for people without an advocate — with a clear hand-off when advice is what's needed.
Explain
Generated explainer videos and audio, in Ugandan languages, so the law reaches people who don't read long documents.
Who it's for
Built for the whole legal system, starting with the people learning it
For LLB and LDC students
Work through problem questions the way you'll be examined — issue, rule, application, conclusion — against real Ugandan authority rather than half-remembered notes.
- Problem questions worked through step by step
- Essay structuring and argument mapping
- Case briefs from real, cited judgments
- Past papers, timed, with feedback on your own attempt
The ecosystem we're built for
Ordus is built around the institutions that make, apply, teach and publish Ugandan law. Our users come from these bodies — and the corpus is built from what they produce.
These institutions have not endorsed Ordus. They are listed because they are who this product is for, and every link goes to their own official site.
Judiciary
- Judiciary of Uganda
Courts of judicature — the source of binding precedent.
Government
- Parliament of Uganda
Enacts the statutes the corpus is built from.
- Uganda Law Reform Commission
Consolidates and reforms the statute book.
- Uganda Police Force
Criminal procedure and prosecution-facing practice.
- Justice, Law and Order Sector
Coordinates Uganda's justice institutions.
- Directorate of Public Prosecutions
Prosecutes criminal matters on behalf of the state.
- Uganda Land Commission
Administers government and public land.
Legal education
- Law Development Centre
The Bar Course and the pre-entry examination.
- Makerere University School of Law
Uganda's oldest law faculty, and its LLB core.
- Uganda Christian University
Faculty of Law, Mukono.
- Kampala International University
School of Law, Kampala.
- Islamic University in Uganda
Faculty of Law, Mbale.
Civil society
- Uganda Law Society
The professional body for enrolled advocates.
- Uganda Legal Information Institute
Free public access to Ugandan judgments and legislation.
The corpus
Most of Uganda's law isn't online yet
The most advanced consolidation effort in existence covers 98 Acts. The statute book is roughly ten times that. No amount of clever retrieval fixes a corpus that isn't there — which is why most of the work, and most of the money, goes into acquisition, digitisation and verification rather than into engineering.
98 consolidated Acts against an estimated ~1,000 Acts and Statutory Instruments. The denominator is an estimate, so the figure is deliberately given as a rough share rather than a precise percentage.
Our commitment: coverage is published by area of law, and the system states its own coverage limits inside answers. “We have 40% of employment law consolidated” is more useful, and more honest, than silent incompleteness.
Consolidation figures: Laws.Africa Uganda National Legislation collection, with ULII. Judgment back-fill and caseload figures: Judiciary of Uganda. Full sources in our documentation.
98
Acts
Consolidated with amendments applied, gazette links and commencement data. Acts dating back to 1902.
8
Statutory Instruments
Alongside 1,400+ gazettes and a glossary of 1,900+ legal terms.
1,382
Court of Appeal judgments
Phase-one back-fill: retrieved from archives, checked against ULII, digitised and interlinked.
456,629
cases handled in 2025 alone
The published, citable fraction of the resulting jurisprudence is small.
Be first to use Ordus
We're in closed beta, starting with law students. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment it's your turn.
- One confirmation email, then nothing until launch
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- Free for students during beta
Work with us
Building this needs more than engineers
Investors
We're raising to build the most complete verified legal corpus in Uganda, and the infrastructure that keeps it trustworthy.
Investor enquiriesInstitutions & partners
Universities, LDC, government bodies, NGOs and corporate legal teams — tell us how you'd like to work together.
Propose a partnershipAdvocates & students
Help build and verify the corpus. We work with enrolled advocates and LDC/LLB students on the editorial side.
Apply to help
The company
Ordus Ltd.
Ordus exists because Uganda's law is legally binding and practically inaccessible. We think that gap closes with a verified corpus and honest engineering — not by pretending an AI is a lawyer.
- Founded
- 2024
- Based in
- Kampala, Uganda
- Registered
- Limited company
- Stage
- Closed beta
Contact
Talk to us
Ordus Ltd. is a limited company registered in Uganda and based in Kampala. Pick the route that fits and we'll come back to you by email.
Investors
We're raising to build the most complete verified legal corpus in Uganda.
Investor enquiriesInstitutions & partners
Universities, government bodies, NGOs and corporate legal teams.
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