Drafting

Drafting turns a plain-English description into a legal document. Tell it what you need, pick a document type or write your own brief, set the governing-law state, and you get a draft that is built section by section, grounded in the statutes for that state, and checked before you ever see it. From there the draft opens in a full editor with track changes, comments, version history, and Word export, so the whole review cycle happens in one place instead of an email chain of attachments.

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Describe what you need

The prompt box is the front door. Describe your document in plain English and include the details that matter:

• Parties and their roles
• Key terms, amounts, and dates
• Any specific clauses you need, or want left out
• Anything unusual about the deal that a generic form would miss

You do not need to know the right legal phrasing. “A mutual NDA between Acme Corp and a freelance designer, two-year term, governed by California law, with a carve-out for independently developed work” is enough to produce a usable first draft. If your description is thin, the Improve action next to the prompt box rewrites it into a sharper drafting brief in place. It sharpens the instruction only: it will not invent parties, amounts, addresses, dates, or statute numbers you did not give it. You can also dictate the brief with the microphone, and attach up to five reference documents (a prior agreement, a term sheet, a signed precedent). Reference documents are read in full and used as source material for the draft, not merely searched.

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Choosing a document type

Quick start offers the four highest-volume types for your workspace as chips. In a general or in-house workspace those are NDA, MSA, Vendor, and DPA. In the Landlord and Tenant workspace they are 3-Day Notice to Pay, Lease / Rental, Estoppel, and Termination Notice. Browse all categories opens the full catalog, split into Contracts and Disputes & Notices tabs, with everything from Statement of Work (SOW), SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), and Service Level Agreement (SLA) through Motion for Summary Judgment, Cease & Desist Letter, and Appellate Brief. A Custom Draft (describe anything) tile always sits at the bottom for documents that do not fit a named type. You do not have to pick one at all. Start typing and the document type is detected from your description, shown as Detected: with the option to override it. Below the prompt box, Start with a sample prompt offers fully written briefs for the selected type, with the blanks pre-selected so you can tab through them. If you have saved document templates, matching ones appear as Your templates for this document type.

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Governing law and forum

Drafting is jurisdiction-aware, and for US documents the governing-law state is required before you can generate. Pick a state, or Federal / multi-state for federal-only or cross-state scope. The selection pins retrieval and citations: statutes, deadlines, dollar figures, and required notices are pulled for that state rather than averaged across the country. For litigation documents, a Court forum option sets Federal court (FRCP/FRE) or State court, with a field for the specific district or court. That drives which procedural rules the draft is written against and how the caption is formed. The More options menu on the composer also carries:

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What happens during generation

Generation is not one prompt. The progress panel shows each stage as it runs, and you can close the tab and come back.

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Guardrails, and what gets flagged

Two of those stages fix problems silently before you see the draft. The rest surface in the editor, because they need your judgment. Specific checks that reach the issue list include unfilled placeholders, the same date stated two ways, a case cited without a pinpoint or with conflicting pinpoints, a wrong court caption for the forum, and a non-compete drafted for a state that does not enforce them.

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New draft vs Improve

The toggle above the prompt box switches between the two modes.

• New draft generates a fresh document from your description.
• Improve takes a document you already have and analyzes it first.

Improve works from an upload (PDF, DOCX, or TXT, up to 50 MB), not from pasted text. Set the governing-law state before uploading so the analysis is scoped to the right body of law. You get back a quality score and a list of anchored findings. Each finding is graded from critical down to nice to have, tagged by category (Enforceability, Compliance, Liability, Imbalance, Clarity, Missing protection, Procedural, Missing section, Formatting), highlighted in the document viewer next to it, and expandable into a suggested fix showing the original text, the proposed replacement, and a one-sentence rationale. Filter to Critical only or Critical + High when the list is long. From there you can download the analysis as a tracked-changes redline, a highlighted markup document, or a findings PDF, or add special instructions and generate the improved draft outright.

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Importing an existing document

You can also bring a document straight into the editor as an editable draft, from PDF, Word, plain text, Markdown, RTF, or an image of a page. Word imports keep more than the text. Comments become real comment threads, tracked insertions and deletions become live redlines with the original author’s name and color, and hyperlinks survive. A banner tells you what was preserved, for example “We kept 8 comments, 23 insertions, 4 deletions from the original document.” Headers and footers are recorded but not placed in the editor body.

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The editor

The draft opens in a rich editor with the formatting you would expect: headings, lists, tables, alignment, links, block quotes, and checklists, plus a slash menu for inserting blocks without leaving the keyboard. Select any passage and a bubble menu offers Rewrite, Simplify, Formalize, Explain, and Comment. Rewrites are staged rather than applied: you see the original struck through, the suggestion, and why, then accept or reject. Explain opens a plain-language summary of the clause with its obligations, risks, and applicable acts. A floating instruction bar lets you select text and describe the change you want in prose instead of picking from the menu. Insert standard US clause in the toolbar drops in vetted boilerplate grouped by area (Federal Procedure, Pleading Recitals, Discovery & Evidence, Settlement & Releases, Confidentiality / NDA, Trade Secrets & IP, Employment, Choice of Law / Forum), or opens From clause library… to search your clause library by type.

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Track changes

The mode control at the right of the toolbar sets how your edits are recorded. The Suggestions panel lists everything pending, filterable to All or Mine, with a live risk badge. Per suggestion you can accept, reject, or Modify, which is a counter-offer: edit the proposed wording before accepting it. Accept all and reject all require a second click to confirm. AI-generated redlines, including those pushed in from contract review, are attributed to the reviewer rather than to you, so a human decision is always distinguishable from a machine suggestion. The Timeline tab keeps the audit trail. Every insertion, deletion, replacement, and formatting change is logged with its status, and stays logged after it is resolved, because the in-document mark disappears on accept or reject but the record should not. A resolved change can be un-resolved, which brings it back as a live, re-decidable suggestion.

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Comments and review

Drafts carry threaded comments anchored to a passage, so review happens in the draft.

• Anchor a comment to a selection and start a thread
• Reply within the thread, including nested replies
• @-mention a teammate to email them a link that opens directly on that thread
• Resolve a thread once it is dealt with, or reopen it later
• Filter to open, resolved, or all

Only the thread author or an org owner can resolve, reopen, or delete a thread, and resolving someone else’s thread emails them. Individual comments can be edited or deleted within five minutes of posting; after that they are fixed, and deletions are soft so history survives. If the text a thread was anchored to gets edited away, the thread moves to an Unanchored group rather than disappearing.

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Version history

Versions are snapshots you take deliberately. Auto-save keeps your work safe continuously but does not create a version, so the history stays a list of meaningful checkpoints rather than a keystroke log. Save explicitly, with an optional change summary, to snapshot the draft. The Versions tab lists them newest first, and Restore replaces the current draft with that version while recording the restore itself as a new change. If two people have the same draft open and the underlying version has moved on, the save is refused rather than silently overwriting a colleague’s work.

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Variables and bulk merge

The Variables panel finds the fill-in points in your draft and lets you complete them in a form instead of hunting through the body.

• [Square brackets] are one-off placeholders for this document
• {Curly braces} are merge fields you intend to bulk-fill

Fields are typed, so dates get a date picker, amounts get currency formatting, and US states get a dropdown. Apply all replaces every filled placeholder in one pass, with undo. Bulk merge generates one personalized copy of the draft per row of data: paste or upload a spreadsheet, map the columns to your merge fields, name the output with a title pattern, and get a separate draft per row plus a single zip of Word files. Rows fail individually rather than sinking the batch. You can also extract merge values from uploaded identity and entity documents instead of typing them.

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Approvals

Where a playbook attaches a sign-off requirement to a clause, sections that land on a fallback or needs-attention position become pending approval items in the Approval workflow panel. Each item names the clause type, the sections involved, the escalation triggers that fired, and the required level: Manager sign-off, Partner sign-off, or General Counsel sign-off. Decisions are Approved, Rejected, or Changes requested, each recorded with a rationale in a decision audit trail. A lower-authority decision does not satisfy a higher gate.

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Drafts, folders, and trash

Every draft is saved automatically and listed in the Drafts panel. Search across drafts by content, and filter by status (Draft, Review, Final, Archived), by source (AI-generated, Uploaded, Imported), and by date. Folders are shared with chats, so a project folder can hold both the conversation and the contracts. Select several drafts at once to move or duplicate them together. The start screen also surfaces Pick up where you left off with your most recently edited drafts and when each was last touched. Deleted drafts go to Trash for 30 days before they are removed permanently, and can be restored from there.

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Sharing and co-editing

Share a draft by public link or by email. A public link is a read-only snapshot: anyone with the link can view it without signing in, and later edits are not reflected. Email sharing sends the title and a link to named recipients. Within your organization, drafts are visible to teammates, and the editor shows who else is present with live avatars marking who is viewing and who is typing, plus a connection badge.

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Exporting

Export from the editor header. If the export still contains unfilled placeholders, you are warned before you send it to a counterparty. Save to matter files the finished draft into a matter as a document, where it becomes searchable alongside the rest of the case file.

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Limits

• Full draft generation and draft analysis each consume 3 message credits; a clause rewrite or explanation consumes 1.
• Plans carry a monthly cap on full draft generations. Failed and cancelled generations do not count against it. See Plans and limits.
• Uploads are capped at 50 MB per file, with up to five reference documents attached to a generation.
• Bulk merge handles up to 200 rows per job.

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Limitations

• Citations are checked, not guaranteed. Anything the verifier could not confirm is marked unverified in the Sources panel rather than removed. Treat unverified as unchecked.
• The governing-law state is locked after the first generation. Adapting a finished draft to another state means starting a new one.
• Coverage varies by state. Where the statutory corpus is thin for a state, the governing-law pill warns you, and drafts for that state will carry less statutory authority.
• Your saved clauses are not automatically used. Clause library wording reaches a draft either by being referenced from a playbook or by being inserted by hand in the editor.
• Imports are lossy for some formats. Scanned PDFs and images go through OCR and come back as text without structure. Headers and footers from Word are recorded but not placed in the editor body.
• PDF export flattens review markup. Tracked changes and comments only survive in the Word tracked-changes export.
• Duplicating a draft does not carry comment threads. The copy starts with a clean review state.
• Anti-hallucination findings are not itemized to you. You see the corrected draft, the quality badge, and the residual flags, not the full internal fact-check log.

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