🇿🇦 A South African contracting platform — by MJ Kotze Inc

We built a contract
management platform
for SA businesses.

my-contracts.co.za is a platform built by a practicing South African attorney to help businesses create, sign, track, and manage every contract — from one place. AI-powered. POPIA compliant. Unlimited users. Free to start.

The most expensive contract is the one you don't have.

Sound familiar? These scenarios cost South African businesses millions every year.

The auto-renewed lease

Your commercial lease renewed at old rates because nobody tracked the opt-out deadline.

The R400K handshake

A supplier started work without a signed agreement. Now you're in a costly dispute.

The missing NDA

The signed NDA is somewhere — someone's inbox, the shared drive, a filing cabinet.

Four tools, no truth

DocuSign, Google Drive, a spreadsheet tracker, and 50 email threads. Per-seat fees every month.

What if none of this had to happen? My-Contracts gives you a single source of truth for every agreement in your business — with AI extraction, e-signatures, approval workflows, and automated renewal alerts built in.

Fix this today →Free to start. No card required.

Why It Was Built

Built by an attorney
who's been there.

My-Contracts wasn't designed in a tech lab by developers who've never seen a shareholders agreement. It was built by a practicing attorney who spent over a decade watching businesses struggle — and sometimes fail — because their contracts weren't in order.

"Every business I work with has learned hard lessons because their contracts weren't in order. They come to me after the damage is done — after the dispute, after the missed deadline, after the compliance audit."

M
Martin Kotze · Founder & Legal Architect

For more than twelve years, Martin practiced as a corporate and commercial attorney, advising businesses from ambitious SMEs to large JSE-listed companies — drafting, reviewing, and negotiating thousands of contracts. It wasn't the contracts that inspired My-Contracts. It was the chaos surrounding them.

The Pattern He Kept Seeing

The Renewal SurpriseBusinesses locked into unfavourable terms for another year because nobody tracked the renewal date. By the time they noticed, the window had closed.
The Missing AgreementCritical contracts living in someone's email inbox, a filing cabinet, or worse — nobody knew where. When disputes arose, the scramble began.
The Version NightmareMultiple versions of the same contract floating around — signed, unsigned, amended, superseded. Which one was actually binding? Hours wasted finding out.
The Compliance GapContracts that didn't account for POPIA, ECTA, or B-BBEE requirements. Non-compliance discovered only when it became a problem — and an expensive one.

The Journey

21
2021

The First Build

A large listed property company needed a contract management system for hundreds of leases and service contracts. That project became the foundation.

22
2022

The Evolution

What started as a single-purpose property solution evolved as Martin saw the same problems across every industry — manufacturing, healthcare, retail.

24
2024

Enterprise-Grade

My-Contracts evolved into a comprehensive contracting platform with specialised panels built for the specific contract types SA businesses actually use.

Now

The Mission

Help businesses get their paperwork sorted before problems arise — not after. Because when the paw-paw hits the fan, you want your ducks in a row.

Three Guiding Principles

Legal-First Design

Every feature is designed by someone who actually practices law. It exists because it solves a real problem Martin has seen in practice.

SA Compliance Native

ECTA, POPIA, B-BBEE, and sector-specific regulations are baked into the core — not an afterthought, not an add-on.

Fair Pricing

Pay for active contracts under management. Not per user, not per seat. Because unnecessary per-seat fees extract value from businesses that just need things to work.

Ready to see what Martin built?

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Platform Capabilities

One platform. Ten capabilities.

Everything you need to run contracts professionally — from first draft to signed agreement to renewal alert.

01

Client & Supplier Onboarding

Intelligent forms with conditional logic. AI-powered extraction from ID documents and registration certificates. B-BBEE tracking built in.

02

Contract Creation & AI Extraction

Pre-built templates for SA contracts. Upload existing agreements and let AI extract parties, dates, values, and key terms.

03

Contract Negotiation

Share via secure links — no account required. Counterparties request changes, your team reviews. Every version tracked.

04

Dynamic Multi-Level Approvals

Different approval chains per contract type. Value-based routing — contracts over R500K automatically require CFO approval.

05

Electronic Signatures

White-labeled signing pages. Mobile-optimized. Legally binding under the SA ECT Act. No DocuSign subscription required.

06

Contract Dashboards

Active contracts, total value, expiring in 30/60/90 days, pending actions — all at a glance. Automated renewal alerts.

07

Full Audit Trails

Every action permanently recorded. Immutable logs. POPIA, King IV, and ISO 27001 compliant.

08

Stakeholder Portals

Tenants, employees, partners, shareholders — secure self-service access to their contracts. No emails back and forth.

09

AI-Powered Contract Search

Ask questions in plain English. "Which contracts have auto-renewal clauses expiring in 90 days?" — instant answer.

10

Company Securities & Governance

Digital securities register. Share transfers, director resolutions, cap table. Companies Act compliant.

Try all 10 capabilities free →

No credit card. No lock-in.

Built for South Africa

Not a US product
with a ZAR toggle.

My-Contracts was designed from the ground up for South African businesses — with local compliance frameworks, SA-specific contract templates, and the regulatory requirements your business actually faces.

Founded by a corporate attorney with over a decade of experience in South African commercial transactions, the platform reflects how contracts are actually structured, negotiated, and governed under South African law.

B-BBEE Certificate TrackingLRA Employment ContractsECT Act E-SignaturesPOPIA ComplianceKing IV GovernanceCompanies Act Templates

Take control of your contracts today.

Start free — no credit card required. Your first 5 contracts are on us, forever.

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