Inikwe

Inikwe is a chat-based legal assistant built for OHADA business law and its Ivorian and Togolese specifics. A user asks a question in plain French, either their own or one of six ready-made starters (creating a company, a labor contract, CCJA arbitration, a commercial lease, judicial liquidation, a land title), and gets back a structured answer: a direct response, the legal basis with linked articles, a step-by-step procedure, what differs between Côte d'Ivoire and Togo, relevant case law, and the sources consulted. Every account keeps a searchable, pinnable history of past conversations. It was built as a solo consulting engagement for W3Frame and is currently a working prototype, not a production product.

The problem

Concrete usage figures for this project are not published.

The approach

Instead of building a retrieval pipeline over a legal corpus, the model is constrained directly: a single, detailed system prompt forces a fixed answer structure and restricts the assistant to exactly two named, authorized sources (OHADA.com and the Abidjan Commercial Court's published decisions), with an explicit fallback sentence when an answer can't be grounded in either. The app itself is a standard Next.js and Prisma stack: Firebase handles identity (email/password and Google), PostgreSQL stores conversations and messages, and API routes call the language model and persist the exchange. The project started on the Perplexity API and was later switched to Google Gemini, mainly to cut cost.

The result

• A working prototype that answers OHADA / Côte d'Ivoire / Togo legal questions with a consistent, sourced structure, delivered solo as a consulting engagement for W3Frame.
• Not in production and has no real users yet: it is a demonstrable prototype, not a live product.

Concrete usage figures for this project are not published.

Key features

• Conversational legal Q&A in French, tuned for OHADA business law and its Ivorian and Togolese specifics.
• Six ready-made starter questions covering common situations: creating a company (SARL), labor contracts, CCJA arbitration, commercial leases, judicial liquidation, land titles.
• Structured answers on every question: direct answer, legal basis with linked articles, step-by-step procedure, country-specific differences (Côte d'Ivoire vs. Togo), relevant case law, and the exact sources consulted.
• Answers are restricted to two named, vetted sources (OHADA.com and the Abidjan Commercial Court), with an explicit fallback line when neither source covers the question, so citations stay checkable rather than open-ended.
• Email/password and Google sign-in, each account keeping its own searchable, pinnable conversation history.
• Runs on Google Gemini after starting on Perplexity, swapped mid-project mainly for cost.