Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has become the first government institution in the country to roll out legal AI across an entire department, adopting the Eskwai platform for its Legal Directorate.
The partnership, announced by Kwame AI, the Ghanaian legal-tech company behind Eskwai, gives the Ministry’s legal team access to AI-assisted research tools drawing on Ghanaian case law and legislation. The Directorate handles legal research and advice not just for the Ministry, but for other government agencies involved in managing the country’s economy.
A Widening Government Footprint
The deal extends a pattern Kwame AI has been building for months. Eskwai already powers research, drafting and document review inside Ghana’s court system, where a version of the tool called Eskwai Clerk is being used by judges to help draft rulings and analyze case materials.
The company has also given Ghana’s Legal Aid Commission — which serves the country’s poorest citizens — free access to its tools under a pro bono program covering all 190 of the Commission’s staff.
The Finance Ministry deal pushes that government presence into economic policy and public finance law, a different arena from courts or legal aid, and one with direct bearing on how the state manages contracts, disputes and regulatory advice.
Why Kwame AI Is Betting on Government
Landing high-profile government customers costs Kwame AI little in direct revenue but buys something harder to acquire: credibility in a market where legal professionals remain cautious about trusting AI with their work. Each new institutional partner — courts, legal aid, now the finance ministry — gives the company a public reference point it can point to when pitching private law firms.
On the commercial side, Kwame AI reports roughly 10,000 users across more than 450 law firms and legal departments, including recent deals with established firms like Sam Okudzeto & Associates and N. Dowuona & Company. Government adoption adds a different kind of validation — one tied to public accountability rather than billable hours.
The Product Being Deployed
Eskwai lets lawyers conduct legal research, draft documents and review contracts using a database that combines case law, legislation, user-uploaded files and web sources. Its most recent version splits the assistant into three workspaces: Research, which returns real-time answers with citations; Review, for contract analysis; and Draft, for generating legal documents and correspondence.
The company’s pitch rests partly on a gap in the market: most global legal AI tools are trained largely on American and British legal material, and struggle with Ghanaian case law or older statutes from the PNDC era. Eskwai was built around African legal databases specifically to fill that gap.
In a statement, Amerley Nuno-Amarteifio, Director of Legal at the Ministry of Finance, said Eskwai’s database and AI capabilities cut down research time and improved efficiency for the Directorate.
