Building a Legal AI Platform on Aurora DSQL and Vercel

I built this project as an entry for the H0: Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases Hackathon. #H0Hackathon Inspiration Justice moves slowly. I learned that firsthand as my family navigated a legal dispute. What struck me wasn't just the stress — it was that things were quite disorganised. Documents were paper-based or buried somewhere in emails. Updates came through WhatsApp messages. Simple documents took a really long time to draft and send. The system was fragmented and difficult to navigate. Companies like Harvey tackle document drafting well, but legal research tools and LLM wrappers can hallucinate case law, citing judgments that don't exist. I knew that if I was going to build something for this space, it had to be grounded in real, verifiable law. That led me to Laws Africa, which provides structured access to actual South African legislation and court judgments. I also noticed a problem that lawyers experience daily: the mechanical work. Logging into court portals to file a case. Hunting through OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox for the right version of a document. Sifting through hundreds of emails to find something relevant to a matter. Onboarding a new client when the intake form is a PDF someone emails you. These are not AI problems. They are automation problems — and lawyers or their secretaries are doing them manually every single day. That became Agently. What Agently Does Agently is a legal workspace that handles the full lifecycle of a matter, from the moment a client submits an intake form to the day the case closes. Matter Management. Every client engagement lives in a structured matter. Documents, emails, notes, contacts, workflows, and AI conversations are all scoped to it. A lawyer can open a matter and immediately see everything relevant. AI Agent with Real Legal Research. The AI connects to Laws Africa's knowledge bases — South African legislation, court judgments, and municipal law — so research is grounded in actual legal