AI for lawyers is often sold as speed. Speed without a source is just a faster way to restate someone else's uncertainty. In practice, the lawyer still has to find the provision, check whether it applies, and decide what the document should say. A tool that skips that chain spends the time you thought you saved on cleanup.
NOMOS Legal AI keeps ask, review and draft on the same retrieval path. You choose a jurisdiction. The workspace retrieves licensed legislation for that country. Answers cite portions you can open. Review flags language against the governing statute. Draft continues from the same corpus rather than inventing a tidy clause from general knowledge.
For South African matters that means the Basic Conditions of Employment Act stays in the BCEA lane, and POPIA stays in the POPIA lane. Nomos does not blend them with neighbouring systems to look neater than the law. Where the text is silent, the product should say so.
None of that replaces professional judgment. Sectoral determinations, exclusions, and the facts of the engagement still matter. The point of legal AI is to put the right primary text in front of you quickly, not to close the file for you.
Early access is talk-to-us on Contact. The product shape is on How it works. This note is research assistance, not legal advice.