About VidhiSar

VidhiSar is a compliance desk for Indian business.

VidhiSar is an AI legal and compliance co-pilot built for Indian small and medium businesses. It answers business-law questions grounded in Indian statute, drafts execution-ready legal documents, scans contracts for risk, tracks statutory deadlines with their rupee exposure, and hands off to a verified advocate when a matter needs a real lawyer.

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Why VidhiSar exists

I have watched four companies pay for the same mistake, and it was never the mistake anyone expected. I spent the early part of my career inside small startups in India — the kind with nine people, one spreadsheet holding the whole business together, and a founder doing three jobs. I was not the compliance person at any of them. Nobody was. That is the point. At the first one, an ROC filing went in late because the person who used to do it had left and nobody noticed the date. ₹100 a day, per form, with no upper limit under section 403 — and two forms were late, so it ran at ₹200 a day while everyone assumed somebody else was handling it. By the time it surfaced we were most of a lakh in, on a thing that would have taken an afternoon. At another, a client sat on our invoice for five months. We were a registered micro enterprise, which meant section 16 of the MSMED Act gave us compound interest at three times the RBI bank rate from day forty-six, whatever the purchase order said. Nobody in the room knew that. We wrote the money off as the cost of keeping a big customer happy. We were entitled to it, and we did not send the notice because we did not know there was one to send. Then the same shape again, twice more — a POSH committee nobody had constituted at a company well past ten employees, a set of vendor contracts with unlimited liability that everyone had signed because a lawyer costs money and the deal was closing on Friday. Different companies, different years, one pattern: the rules were knowable, nobody knew them, and everybody was being sensible. That is the part that stayed with me. Not one of those was carelessness. Hiring somebody to prevent a ₹100-a-day fine costs more than the fine — right up until the day it doesn't, and by then you are months in and the number has stopped being small. A retainer you cannot justify in month one is a retainer you do not take in month one. Everyone involved did the rational thing with the options in front of them, and the options were the problem. So I wanted to change the options, not the people. The routine eighty per cent of this work — which deadline, which form, what it costs per day, what the clause should say — is what software should have taken off a professional's desk years ago. The rest genuinely needs a person, and pretending otherwise is how legal tech gets somebody into trouble. VidhiSar does the routine part, prices what you are exposed to in rupees instead of in warnings, and hands you to somebody qualified for everything else. Every document it prints says on its face that it is a draft and needs review, because that is true. It answers in Hindi, English or Hinglish, and it names the section it is relying on so you can check it. That last part matters to me more than anything else here. Software that asks you to trust it on the law is just a more expensive way to be uncertain — and the businesses I am building this for have already paid for enough of that.

  • Swaraj Layek — Founder & CEO, VidhiSar

What VidhiSar is

VidhiSar is a software product, operated at vidhisar.in, that Indian small and medium businesses use to handle their own legal and compliance work. It is a technology company — not a law firm, not a law school, and not a legal-education or moot-court programme.

  • A software product, used in a browser, with nothing to install
  • Grounded in Indian statutory text, and it gives you the section number
  • Built for the routine work — the drafting, the deadlines, the document trail
  • Answerable in Hindi, English or Hinglish, and it cites the same provision either way

What VidhiSar is not

Stated because the name is not unique, and because the difference decides whether this is the right tool for what you are about to do.

  • A law firm, and not a substitute for advice on a matter that needs it
  • A law school, a workshop series, or a legal-education programme
  • A filing or registration agent
  • A replacement for your chartered accountant or company secretary

The law it is grounded in

Answers cite the provision they rest on, so you can check them. These are the Acts the product reasons over.

  • Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023
  • Companies Act 2013
  • Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act 2006
  • Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (POSH) Act 2013
  • Indian Contract Act 1872
  • Central Goods and Services Tax Act 2017
  • Indian Stamp Act 1899

What it does

  • Legal Q&A grounded in Indian statutory text, with section references
  • Answers in Hindi, English or Hinglish
  • 30 execution-ready legal document templates with PDF output
  • Contract risk scanner across 15 red, amber and green clause patterns
  • Negotiation brief generator — clause, proposed replacement, legal rationale
  • Compliance calendar with live-accruing statutory penalty exposure
  • Legal health score out of 100 across DPDP readiness, deadlines, documents and open contract risk
  • DPDP Act 2023 readiness assessment
  • DSAR handling, breach logging and vendor DPA auditing
  • Escalation to a Bar Council–verified advocate with full conversation context
  • Compliance register export — the full statutory position as an audit-ready PDF (Pro)

Where the line is

VidhiSar makes the routine 80% of legal and compliance work self-serve. Every generated document states on its face that it is an AI-assisted draft requiring review by a qualified professional before execution, and every compliance answer notes that dates and applicability should be confirmed with a CA. For anything beyond routine, a Bar Council–verified advocate is one click away and receives your full conversation context.

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