For unions and industrial officers
Send us the job. Get back cited research and a first draft.
A research and drafting team for industrial officers, built on more than 400,000 Australian decisions. Send the job and the bundle, tell us what you need, and get on with your day. We do the reading.
One real job, no card, no obligation. Or call 1300 967 552
Figures as at November 2026. The decision library is topped up weekly.
Your officers stand beside people who do the hard jobs. We give them the hours back.
Four steps. Then get on with your day.
Tell us about the matter
Say which agreement or award it's under. One job per member, dispute or claim.
Tell us what you need
What happened, which forum, what you want back, and what's due when.
Send the bundle
Agreements, emails, investigation reports, scans, photos of your notes and meeting recordings.
Get it back
Cited research and first drafts in Word, with a separate checking pass before they're sent. Most jobs come back within a day.
Anything you'd give a sharp research associate.
Your officers keep the judgement, the strategy and the advocacy. We take the hours of reading and the first draft.
Research memos
Does the clause cover this? What has the Commission said? The answer first, then every authority, linked to its source.
Agreement and award interpretation
Read against the full agreement, the parent award, pay rates back to 2015, and what the Commission has decided.
Bargaining support
Research for a log of claims, comparisons with other agreements in the sector, and clause drafting.
FWC applications and responses
Unfair dismissal, general protections, disputes under an agreement's dispute clause and protected action ballot orders, on the Commission's current forms, drafted from the facts.
Federal Court and Federal Circuit Court applications
Originating applications, statements of claim and affidavits for underpayment, general protections and other civil remedy claims.
Discrimination complaints
Disability, pregnancy, age and other discrimination: a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission or the state body, or a general protections claim, with the routes and time limits compared.
Injury and return to work
Return-to-work plans, suitable duties disputes and dismissals for injury or incapacity, with the medical evidence read against what the employer must do.
Show-cause and discipline responses
A response built from the documents, with a procedural fairness check on the employer's process.
Letters to employers
Open and without prejudice letters, requests for information, and dispute correspondence.
Chronologies and transcripts
Recordings transcribed with timestamps, and a dated chronology of the bundle with each event linked to its document.
Position and mediation statements
Your member's case set out with the authorities in place, ready for your officer to sharpen.
Settlement deeds reviewed
The employer's deed marked up in tracked changes, with the risks to your member explained.
Real matters arrive as a pile. We read all of it.
Hundreds of pages of disclosure, a scanned investigation report, a recording of a member interview, three versions of a roster. A chat box chokes on that.
Our own servers read every page first, scanned or not. They transcribe the recordings, sort and date the documents, and build a chronology before the research starts. Your officer gets the answer, not a reading list.
The model isn't the difference. The library and the checking are.
General AI tools can search the web, read your files and write well. Our own agent runs on one of the same models. What it has that they don't is a maintained Australian legal library, your sector's agreements in full, and a checking pass before anything reaches you.
| Lawcaptain for unions | General-purpose AIMicrosoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, used without custom setup | |
|---|---|---|
| Case law | 400,000+ Australian decisions we hold, 74,000+ of them from industrial tribunals, full text searched by meaning and topped up weekly | Web search and what the model learned in training |
| Citations | Every case looked up in our library, linked to its source, with its appeal history checked | Checking each case is up to you |
| Agreements and awards | Enterprise agreements in full, collected from the Fair Work and WA registers, plus 155 modern awards and pay rates back to 2015 | Whatever you upload, or what it finds online |
| Big bundles | Bundles of thousands of pages, subject to fair use. Scans read page by page, recordings transcribed on our own GPUs | Limited by upload and conversation size |
| Checking | A separate checking pass on every draft: one on the facts, one on the law, quotes and links | One pass, unless you ask for another |
| Drafting | Word documents in Australian legal style, FWC forms on current versions, every case hyperlinked | General drafting you format yourself |
| Who's behind it | MKI Legal, Doyle's Guide 2026 for WA employment law, employee and union representation | A software company |
Comparison as at November 2026, against general-purpose AI plans used without custom setup. Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude are trade marks of their owners. Lawcaptain is not affiliated with them.
Seven WA occupations researched before you send a job.
For each group we've mapped the agreements, the awards, the legislation and the Commission's history. The guides are public in our industrial hub, so you can judge the depth before you send us anything.
Example: WA firefightersBuilt and public in our industrial hub
Firefighters · Paramedics and ambulance staff · Police · Nurses and midwives · Health workers · Teachers · Catholic and independent schools
Open the industrial hubThe national law is already in
The Fair Work Act, modern awards and Commission decisions are all covered today.
Every case looked up. Every draft checked.
From the sources
Research is built from the legislation, the agreements and the full text of the decisions, not summaries of summaries.
Every case linked
Each case is looked up in our library and hyperlinked to its source, so your officer can check it in one click.
Still good law
Each case is checked against our appeals database and LawCite, so you know if it's been overturned.
A separate checking pass
Two fresh agents that didn't write the draft check it: one on the facts, one on the law, quotes and links. Every fix is applied before it's sent.
Helps your officers meet the Commission's AI rules
The Fair Work Commission's guidance note on generative AI applies from 20 October 2026. Every draft we send hyperlinks its cases and carries an AI disclosure line. The note requires a person to check the work before it's filed, and that's your officer: we make it quick by linking every source.
Employment lawyers who built the tool they wanted.
Lawcaptain comes out of MKI Legal, a Perth employment law firm since 2012, listed in Doyle's Guide 2026 for WA employment law (employee and union representation). We built the research agent for our own matters first, and our lawyers use it every day.
Your first test job is free.
Send us a job your team is working on now. Your officers judge the result on a matter they know, before you spend a cent.
One real job, researched and drafted from your documents. No card needed.
MKI Legal can take a matter on, quoted up front, with the research already done.
Ask for your free test job
Tell us who you are and what you need. No documents yet: we'll sort out how to send them when we set up the job.
Questions
Does this replace our industrial officers?
No. It takes the hours of reading and the first draft. Your officers keep the judgement, the strategy and the advocacy, and get through more matters.
What if it gets something wrong?
Every case is linked, so checking it takes one click, and every draft is marked as AI-prepared. Drafts are drafts: your officer reviews them before anything is filed or sent.
Does this meet the FWC's AI guidance note?
It helps your officers meet it: every case hyperlinked and an AI disclosure line on every draft. The note says a person must check the work before it's filed. That's your officer, and the links make it quick.
Is this legal advice?
It's research and drafting support for your team. If a matter needs a lawyer, MKI Legal can take it on under a costs agreement.
We're a Fair Work union, not a WA one.
The Fair Work Act, modern awards and Commission decisions are all covered. WA is where our occupation guides started.
How long does a job take?
Most come back within a day. Big bundles take longer, and tight deadlines are flagged when the matter is opened.
What do you need from us for the test job?
One real job and its documents. Tell us what you need back and when.
Send us the job.
Your first test job is free. See what comes back.