Bring Your Own Claude

If your team already uses Claude, you don’t have to copy-paste matter details into it. HeyKazi exposes your firm’s data to your own Claude over a secure, read-only connection, so the Claude your lawyers already use becomes grounded in your live matters, trust ledger, unbilled time, and compliance state.

Bring your own Claude — HeyKazi provides the grounded context.

This is the mirror image of the in-product AI: there, HeyKazi calls Claude; here, your Claude reads HeyKazi. Your own Claude subscription pays the token bill, and the connection is read-only — your Claude can read and draft, but never changes your HeyKazi data.

How it works

HeyKazi runs an MCP server (Model Context Protocol) that your Claude connects to. The connection is:

Per-user authenticated — your Claude signs in as a HeyKazi member via OAuth. It sees only what that member’s role allows — the same permission checks as the app.
Read-only — the tools expose your matters, clients, unbilled time, trust balances, compliance gaps, and documents for reading. Nothing is written back.
Consent-gated (POPIA) — client data only flows to your Claude after your firm grants explicit data-egress consent (Settings → Integrations → MCP). Revoke it any time.
Audited — every read is logged, so you have a defensible record of what AI touched which client data.

The Kazi legal skill pack

Alongside the connection, HeyKazi publishes a Claude plugin — kazi-legal-za — of South-African legal skills that run in your Claude and orchestrate the HeyKazi data into outcomes. All are read-only and draft-only: a lawyer reviews each draft and commits the result back in HeyKazi by hand.

Skill	What it does
Fee-note run	Draft fee notes from unbilled time, in your house style with LSSA / contingency-fee context.
FICA gap review	Identify a client’s missing FICA/KYC documents and draft the request.
Matter brief	A plain-language, client-ready status update for a matter.
Intake triage	Conflict-check a new matter against existing clients; recommend forum, governing law, and deadlines.
§86 trust reconciliation	A read-only anomaly screen over the trust ledger (e.g. debit balances), framed by the Legal Practice Act.
Kazi bridge	Run any upstream `claude-for-legal` skill against a matter’s live HeyKazi data.

Connecting

In HeyKazi, go to Settings → Integrations → MCP and enable the connector, granting the POPIA data-egress consent.

Install the plugin

Add the claude-for-legal-sa marketplace in your Claude client and install the kazi-legal-za plugin.

Connect your Claude

Point the plugin at your firm’s MCP endpoint and sign in (OAuth). Then run the plugin’s connect-kazi skill to confirm the connection and load your house style.

Connecting is per-user: each lawyer signs in as themselves and only sees the matters and clients their HeyKazi role permits. There is no shared service account.