Kenyan legal data · built for the agentic era

Give your AI access to Kenyan law.

Emerald gives Claude, ChatGPT, agents and your own products a searchable source of Kenyan judgments and statutes, so they can look up the law before they answer.

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JudgmentsStatutesAgent-readyREST APIOAuth

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Why Emerald

Law is a bad place to guess.

A model can sound certain even when it cannot reach the authority behind an answer. Emerald gives it somewhere to look first: find the case or statute, read the text, resolve the citation, then answer from what is actually there.

Search before answeringFind the relevant Kenyan judgment or statute instead of relying on model memory.

Read the sourceRetrieve legal text in bounded chunks that an agent can actually work with.

Trace the authorityKeep the original Kenya Law source URL and content hash attached to the record.

Use one corpus everywhereThe web search, API and agent connections all work from the same indexed legal data.

Agent connections · MCP

Put Kenyan law inside Claude and ChatGPT.

Connect Emerald once. Your assistant gets a deliberately small interface: search for the authority, then read exactly what it needs from the source.

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Remote MCPhttps://emerald.ynai.co.ke/mcp

Add Emerald
Paste the remote MCP URL into a compatible assistant.

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Use your Emerald account through the secure OAuth flow.

Ask normally
Your assistant can call Emerald when it needs Kenyan legal authority.

Search the corpus yourself.

Look for a legal issue, party, citation, statute or words from the text. Open the stored legal document in a clean reading view and keep the original source one click away. No account needed to try it.

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API

Give your products access.

Build legal search, citation checks, monitoring, research workflows or your own agent on top of Emerald. One API covers judgments and statutes, with document text, metadata, source links and updates.

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Search Kenyan legal data

curl "https://emerald.ynai.co.ke/v1/search?q=employment+act" \
  -H "X-API-Key: em_live_..."

What an agent can do

Two tools. Kenyan law.

The model does not need a menu of tiny functions. Emerald keeps the interface minimal and puts the retrieval intelligence behind it.

searchFind judgments or statutes by issue, party, title, citation, court, date or natural-language query.

readRead a bounded source-text chunk, or request a specific statutory section or constitutional article.

Built around legal learning and work.

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Ynai Publishing ↗Read editorially approved legal articles from contributors, submit your own writing for publication, and explore Legal Pulse — a neutral index of legal writing published by Kenyan law firms.

Orbit ↗A legal workspace for practitioners and firms.

Pricing

Start free. Pay for what you use.

Try Emerald with the free allowance. Pay as you go starts with KES 100, one request costs KES 0.10, and purchased credit does not expire.

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