How we work

How Vetted actually drafts and reviews your policies.

AI-drafted Indian HR & compliance policies - reviewed by qualified Indian advocates within 24 hours.

We publish this page because the phrase “lawyer-vetted” does the heavy lifting on our homepage - and the only honest way to back that up is to show our work. Below: the rules our AI follows, the doctrines it can't override, what the human advocate review actually does, and what we explicitly refuse to do even when a customer asks.

The drafting stack

The 4-binder system every draft reads first

Before the AI writes a single word, four instruction sheets are stacked on top of each other. Binders 1 and 2 are stable and shared across all customers (heavily cached, cheap). Binders 3 and 4 are dynamic - operator memory updates live when the law changes; client memory remembers your specific quirks.

Binder 1

Master Rulebook

848 lines of explicit drafting rules covering every Indian statute we touch. Includes the Statutory Floor Doctrine, the Place-of-Work Doctrine, headcount-triggered applicability thresholds (10 / 20 / 50 / 100 employees), and the citation-format protocol. Cached server-side so every generation pays a fraction of the input cost.

Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 - Sec. 5(3) 26-week floor
POSH Act, 2013 + Rules 2013 - IC composition (Rule 4)
DPDPA 2023 - operationalisation caveat (Sec. 1(2), Rules under Sec. 40 not yet notified)
Companies Act, 2013 - Sec. 197 director remuneration caps
Income-tax Act, 1961 - Sec. 192/194 TDS rates

Binder 2

Pre-vetted Boilerplate

Where statute itself dictates the wording (POSH Internal Committee composition, Maternity 26-week minimum, standard NDA scope), we use verbatim pre-vetted text instead of asking the AI to paraphrase. Removes paraphrase drift between drafts, and means two customers asking for POSH get identical IC clause wording every time.

POSH IC composition (Rule 4, POSH Rules 2013)
Maternity 26-week minimum (Sec. 5(3), MB Act 1961)
Standard NDA scope & exclusions

Binder 3

Operator Memory

Live admin-managed instructions that flow into every draft without a code deploy. Updated when the law changes (e.g., a Section threshold revision, a new State LWF rate, a CBDT notification), when a clarification is needed, or when our advocate panel raises a drafting style preference. Audit-logged.

Section 194B threshold revised to ₹10,000 per single transaction from 1 April 2025
Maharashtra LWF rates revised in 2024
Always include the latest CBDT TDS notifications

Binder 4

Client Memory

Per-client durable preferences. After a customer has generated two or three packs, their admin or assigned advocate can pin house-style instructions here - preferred naming conventions, fact patterns already decided, jurisdiction-specific interpretations. The next draft picks these up automatically.

Always use ACME PVT LTD in all caps
Leave year runs April–March, not Jan–Dec
Mr Sharma signs all policies as authorised signatory

Non-negotiables

Five doctrines baked into every draft

These five rules are in the master prompt. They override customer asks, override convenience, and override commercial pressure. If a draft is generated that violates one of them, the critique loop refuses to ship it.

I.
Statutory Floor Doctrine
We never draft a clause below the statutory minimum. If a customer asks for, say, 12 weeks of maternity leave when the floor is 26 weeks, we refuse the sub-floor draft, cite Sec. 5(3) of the Maternity Benefit Act 1961, and offer a two-layer alternative - statutory baseline (26 weeks, non-negotiable) plus a discretionary ex-gratia layer if the company wants commercial flexibility. We do not silently comply with unlawful asks.
II.
Place-of-Work Doctrine
The State whose laws govern an employment relationship is the State where the employee physically works - NOT where the company is registered. A Maharashtra-registered company with a Karnataka office gets two parallel compliance tracks (different S&E Acts, different LWF rates, different Professional Tax slabs). We always ask: where do your employees actually report for work?
III.
Headcount-Driven Applicability
Many Indian statutes only apply above headcount thresholds - POSH IC at 10, Maternity Benefit Act at 10, ESIC at 10, Standing Orders at 50 or 100 depending on State. Before drafting any trigger clause we check headcount per location, not at the company level. A 200-employee company with 4 in each of 5 offices does not need a POSH IC per office.
IV.
Amendment-Aware
We apply the current statutory position as of the draft date. Where a recent amendment changed a threshold (e.g., Sec. 194B threshold revised to ₹10,000 per single transaction from 1 April 2025; Maharashtra LWF rates revised in 2024), we apply the latest position and flag the change in the advisory annexure. Every cited Section is cross-checked against the bare text of the named Act.
V.
Citation Rigor - Zero Hallucination
Every statutory citation in the output must be verifiable against the bare text of the named Act, Rule, or Notification. Section numbers cited EXACTLY as they appear in the Act (e.g., Sec. 5(2), not Sec. 5.2). Official short titles + year ("Maternity Benefit Act, 1961" - not "MB Act 1961"). Never invent a Section, threshold, rate, or date. If uncertain, the citation is OMITTED rather than guessed - and we explicitly note that the user should verify against the latest Gazette.

The verification loop

Drafted, critiqued, revised - before any human sees it

The draft doesn't go straight to the advocate. It goes through an automated second-opinion pass first. A separate model - built and prompted specifically as a critical reviewer - re-reads the entire draft, checks every citation against the named Act, flags missing mandatory provisions, and scores the output 1–10.

1Draft pass - the AI writes the full policy pack using all 4 binders.
2Critique pass - a second model reads the draft, extracts every statutory citation, and cross-checks against the named Act. Returns a structured report: citation errors, factual errors, missing provisions, internal inconsistencies, data-hygiene flags, and an overall score.
3Revise pass - if the score is below the 8/10 threshold, the original AI re-drafts using the critique as instructions. The cycle repeats up to 3 times until the score clears 8/10 or the loop exhausts its budget.
4Ship to advocate- only at this point does the draft go into our advocate queue for human redlining. The customer never sees a draft that didn't pass the automated review.

What this catches: wrong Section numbers, missing POSH Local Committee route, DPDPA without the operationalisation caveat, sub-statutory wage deductions, hour-cap clauses that ignore Sec. 13 overtime allowance, CIN state-code mismatches with the registered office, IC external members who actually work at the same company.

The human review layer

A qualified Indian advocate redlines your draft

After the automated draft + critique passes, every first policy goes to our panel of qualified Indian advocates for a final human review. They're Bar-Council-registered practitioners who specialise in Indian employment, corporate, and data-privacy law. The redline returns within 24 hours of payment.

What the advocate review covers

Verification that every Section / Rule cited is the current statutory position (post any 2024-2026 amendments).
Check for mandatory provisions that an automated review might miss in edge cases (sector-specific carve-outs, State-level notifications, recent High Court positions).
Drafting-tone adjustments - making sure the policy reads as enforceable, not advisory.
A short advisory note on anything the company should consider beyond the policy text (e.g., periodic refreshers, Form A filing dates, IC member rotation).

We don't publish the panel roster publicly yet - the panel is still formalising and we'd rather under-promise and over-deliver than name specific advocates before the process is consistent. If you need a named-counsel engagement (rather than panel review), the LegalProtect 360 parent service handles that.

Citation rigor in practice

Every policy ends with a Statutory Source Map

The last annexure of every Vetted policy is a table listing each clause and the exact statutory provision it's grounded in. A labour inspector or counsel reviewer can trace any clause back to its source without guesswork. Here's an excerpt from a POSH pack:

Statutory Source Map - POSH Policy (sample excerpt)

Real annexure from an issued policy, redacted of company- specific names. Full Map is ~30-50 rows depending on policy.

Clause	Statutory source	Notes
Internal Committee composition (4 members, ≥50% women)	Sec. 4(2), POSH Act 2013 + Rule 4, POSH Rules 2013	Mandatory minimum at 10+ employees per workplace
Presiding Officer - must be a senior woman employee	Sec. 4(2)(a), POSH Act 2013	If no senior woman available, nominate from another office
External member - NGO / advocate / familiar with sexual harassment	Sec. 4(2)(c), POSH Act 2013 + Rule 4(c)	Cannot be from the same company (Rule 4(c) bar)
Local Committee route - complaints against employer	Sec. 6 + Sec. 9(2) proviso, POSH Act 2013	District Officer notified per Rule 5; most-missed clause
Inquiry timeline - 90 days from complaint	Sec. 11(4), POSH Act 2013	Statutory; cannot be extended by company policy
Annual Report (Form A) filing - calendar year	Sec. 21 + Rule 14, POSH Rules 2013	Filed to District Officer; non-filing penalty under Sec. 26
Wage-deduction recommendation cap	Sec. 13(3), POSH Act 2013 read with Sec. 7, Payment of Wages Act 1936	Cannot exceed Payment of Wages Act statutory cap

This is what counsel reviewers tell us makes our packs survive due-diligence cite-checks without raising flags. Every Section number above is exactly as it appears in the Bare Act - verified before the row was written.

Anti-claims

What Vetted will not do - even on customer request

Most trust claims focus on what a platform does. The harder half is the negative space: what we refuse to do even when paid to.

×Draft a clause that falls below the statutory minimum, even on customer request
×Invent or paraphrase a Section number, sub-section, threshold, rate, or amendment date
×Treat the registered office as the governing State when employees work elsewhere
×Skip headcount checks before drafting POSH IC / Maternity / ESIC trigger clauses
×Use "approximately" or "around" in any statutory citation - citations are exact or omitted
×Identify ourselves to end-users as anything other than "Vetted by LegalProtect"
×Reproduce copyrighted templates verbatim from another vendor's stock

Promises + what happens when we miss

Service-level commitments

AI draft delivery

≤ 10 minutes

From payment confirmation to the AI-drafted policy appearing on your dashboard. Streams live as it's generated; no waiting on a full document.

Advocate review

≤ 24 hours

From payment to the redlined policy back in your dashboard, with the advocate's comments inline. You get the AI draft immediately; the reviewed version arrives within 24 hours.

If we miss the SLA

Full refund of the ₹199 + GST payment, no questions asked. You keep the AI-drafted policy. Refund processed within 5–7 business days back to the original payment instrument. Details on the refund page.

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