No accounts. No profiling. No query log. The anonymous search layer behind Certus Law, and open to anyone who would rather not be the product. What you look for stays yours.
Your query leaves no trail — not with us, not with them.
A firm's queries are evidence of its thinking. Put a company name, a section number and a date into an ordinary search engine and you have told a third party which matter you are running, which argument you are testing, and roughly when you expect to file. That record is kept, and it is sellable.
Certus Law reads its own curated corpus first and consults the open record last. When it does reach out, every one of those lookups leaves through BlackLens. The court sites, the Gazette and the public indexes see a request from our infrastructure. They never learn which firm is asking.
See how Certus Law uses it arrow_forwardThere is no account and no session, so nothing groups this morning's queries with last week's. Two searches from the same firm are two strangers.
Address, browser fingerprint and referrer are stripped at our edge. The far side receives a well-formed question with nothing attached to attribute it to.
A query log is a liability: it can be demanded, breached or sold. There is not one here, so there is nothing to produce and nothing to lose.
Most search engines are a two-sided business: your query on one side, advertisers on the other, and you in the middle being measured. BlackLens removes the middle. We proxy your query through VCB's infrastructure, strip every identifier, fan it out to the engines that match best, and return a clean answer.
Over TLS. We don't attach it to an account because there are no accounts.
IP, user-agent fingerprint, referrer — all scrubbed before anything leaves us.
250+ sources, each seeing only an anonymous request from VCB.
No logs retained against you. Your search doesn't exist a second after you close the tab.
BlackLens enriches every result with the context you need — without ever learning who you are.
News · Gov · Edu · Legal
Every result is labeled by source category so you know what you're reading at a glance.
Local-first toggle
Filter to .za domains and known South African sources when context is everything.
Cross-engine scoring
A green, gold, or grey indicator shows how many engines agreed this result was worth surfacing.
Minutes, hours, days ago
Timestamps tell you whether you're reading the news or the archive — colour-coded for instant clarity.
Every one of them left nothing behind.
We are opening BlackLens to the builder community — both local developers and enterprise clients. API keys will be available directly via REST endpoint and as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration, bringing anonymous, untraceable search into your own AI pipelines and corporate workflows.
Simple HTTP endpoints. Plug BlackLens anonymised search directly into your app, service, or data pipeline with a single key.
Native MCP server for corporates — give your AI agents private, anonymous web search without exposing your queries or your users to Big Tech.
ZAR-denominated pricing for South African developers and businesses. No USD conversion, no international card fees — built for the local ecosystem.
Whether you're a solo developer integrating private search into a local app, or a corporate deploying an AI agent that must never expose client queries — BlackLens API has you covered. Register your interest and we'll notify you the moment access opens.
Register Developer Interest arrow_forwardAvailable for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Brave, Opera, and every major mobile browser. Set it once — then search the way you always should have.
