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Chat is open-ended. Legal Tools is the opposite: a small set of structured analyses where you fill in a short form, run it once, and get a consistently shaped result you can export, save, and hand to someone else. Each tool asks for the same three things (a document, who you are in the deal, and any context worth knowing), then produces a graded, sectioned report rather than a paragraph of prose. You reach the hub from Review in the sidebar. Every tool lives there as a tab, and your past runs sit in a history panel alongside them.
Screenshot of the Review hub showing the available legal tool tabs

The Legal Tools hub with the Contract Review form open

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The Tools

Contract Review

Clause-by-clause analysis against your negotiation playbook. Green, yellow, and red grades per clause, drafted redlines with a Must-Have / Should-Have / Nice-to-Have priority, and a Word export with real tracked changes.

NDA Triage

A ten-point screen on a single NDA. Returns Approve, Counsel Review, or Reject / Counter with a pass, warning, or fail on each criterion.

Risk Assessment

Scores a described scenario on a five-by-five severity and likelihood grid, then lists mitigations and the residual score once they are applied.

Compliance Check

Requirement-by-requirement gap analysis against a named framework, with drafted remediation language and a priority per gap.

OCR

Pulls readable text out of scanned filings, photographed documents, and image-only PDFs. Handwriting has its own mode.

Feed

Tracked-keyword legal alerts. It shares the hub for convenience rather than being an analysis tool.
Several closely related surfaces are not tabs in this hub but do the same kind of work: Compare Documents for redlines between two versions, Document Matrix for the same questions across many documents, Chronology Builder for dated events, and DPA Review for vendor data agreements.

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Running a Tool

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Pick the tab

Open Review from the sidebar and choose a tool. Switching tabs keeps whatever you had typed in the other tools, so you can start a compliance check without losing a half-filled review form.
2

Get the document in

Drag a file onto the upload area, browse for one, or pull it straight from Google Drive. Text is extracted before analysis, and scanned or image-only PDFs fall back to OCR automatically instead of failing.
3

Set the framing fields

Contract type and which side you represent for Contract Review. Framework and document category for Compliance. These are what make the output take a position rather than describe the document neutrally.
4

Add context, then sharpen it

Every tool has a free-text box (Review Instructions, Business Context, or Additional Context). Type a fragment such as “watch the liability stuff, we are the customer” and press Improve to expand it into an explicit checklist of issues before you run.
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Run and watch the steps

The run streams live progress (“Loading your playbook positions”, “Flagging where it deviates”) rather than a spinner, so you can see where a long document is.
6

Act on the result

Export it, send the findings into a draft as anchored comments, or leave it in history and come back to it later.

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What Every Tool Shares

Upload, paste, or import from Google Drive. PDF, Word, plain text, HTML, spreadsheets, presentations, and images are all accepted, and the extraction path is the same one the main document pipeline uses, so a scanned contract is run through the OCR ladder rather than rejected.Uploads are accepted up to 250 MB; the OCR tool caps at 100 MB and 1,000 pages. Analysis reads up to roughly 200,000 characters of document text, with a lower cap on the free tier.
The context boxes are guidance notes, not questions and not documents, so they get their own rewriter. It expands scope, naming the clause types, carve-outs, and risk angles a competent lawyer would want covered, and it is explicitly barred from inventing facts.Party names, amounts, dates, citations, and jurisdictions you did not write come back as bracketed placeholders. Everything you did write, including which side you are on and any threshold you set, is preserved verbatim. If the rewrite fails, your original text is left untouched.
Past roughly 12,000 characters, about four pages, a tool stops trying to read the whole document in one pass. It splits the document into sections, evaluates each one in parallel, then synthesizes a single report with a shared glossary of defined terms.This is why a hundred-page agreement completes instead of timing out, and it is also why a long document costs more and takes longer than a short one. Contract Review additionally picks its model by document length, so a three-page NDA does not run on the heavyweight model.
The tools deliberately share a color grammar. Green means acceptable with no action, yellow means negotiate, and red means escalate.Risk Assessment adds orange between yellow and red for its high band. Compliance uses Compliant, Partially Compliant, Non-Compliant, and Not Applicable instead, since a requirement is not a negotiating position.
Every run is saved automatically and listed in the history panel next to the tool, newest first, with its grade. You can rename a run to something you will recognize later, delete it, or reopen it. Each saved run has its own link, so you can paste a specific review into an email or a matter note and it will open on that result.
Any result exports to PDF, Word, or Markdown, styled as a legal document rather than a raw dump. Contract Review has an extra export: the original contract with your accepted redlines applied as native Word tracked changes, which opens in Word with working Accept and Reject buttons.
Findings from a review can be pushed into a draft in the editor, where each one lands as a comment thread anchored to the clause it refers to. Findings whose language cannot be located in the draft are still attached rather than dropped, so nothing is silently lost.

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Shared Vocabularies

The tools draw on the same taxonomies, which is what lets a playbook written for one contract type apply cleanly in review and what keeps clause names consistent between the clause library, playbooks, and a finished report.
A framework is only “fully supported” if it has a real requirement checklist behind it. The picker will let you choose Other, but the result then falls back to generic reasoning and should be treated as a starting point rather than an assessment.

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Choosing Between Tools

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Tool Reference

Detailed pages for the individual analyses, including what each one checks, what it returns, and how to read the output.

NDA Triage

The ten criteria, the three verdicts, and when to override one.

Risk Assessment

How the severity and likelihood grid is scored and what residual risk means.

OCR

Extracting clean text from scanned PDFs, images, and handwriting.

Legal Intelligence Feed

Tracked topics and fresh legal developments, surfaced in the hub.
Contract Review and Compliance are the other two tabs, and both have full guides: Contract Review and Compliance Check.

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Running Tools From Chat

You do not have to open the hub. With a document attached in chat, describing what you want routes the turn to the right engine, and the answer arrives inline with a card linking back to the full tool.
“Review this contract for risks” runs a clause-by-clause review “Should I sign this? Any red flags?” runs a fast triage “Is this compliant with GDPR?” runs a compliance pass “What are all my obligations and deadlines?” sweeps duties and dates “Compare these two versions” offers a comparison rather than answering inline
Routing is conservative by design. Anything that would spawn a job, spend credits, or create a document is offered as a chip you confirm, not run silently. For a saved, repeatable version of one of these prompts, see Skills; for autonomous multi-step work, see Agent Mode.

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Plans and Usage

Legal Tools are available on every authenticated plan, including free, but the shape of the limit differs.
  • Free: five runs per tool per month, with a smaller document size ceiling of roughly twelve pages per run. The tab shows a used-of-total badge.
  • Paid plans: no per-tool cap. Each run draws from your monthly message credits instead, and the tab shows the cost. Contract Review, NDA Triage, Risk Assessment, and Compliance Check are the expensive ones; OCR is the cheapest.
  • Exporting a result, including the corrected Word export, is free. You already paid for the analysis.
See Plans and Limits for the full picture, or your billing settings for current usage.

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Limitations

  • The output is a first pass, not advice. Every tool produces a structured opinion from the text you gave it and the framing you chose. It does not know your deal history, your risk appetite beyond what you typed, or anything outside the document.
  • Framing changes the answer. Which side you say you are on drives the entire review. Getting it wrong produces a confident report arguing the other party’s position.
  • A framework without a checklist is guesswork. Fourteen compliance frameworks have real requirement lists. Choosing Other produces generic output.
  • Long documents lose some cross-references. The section-by-section path shares a defined-terms glossary, but a contradiction between section 3 and section 41 is harder to catch than one inside a single clause.
  • Risk Assessment scores what you describe. It reads your scenario, not your systems. A thin description yields a thin score.
  • OCR is not perfect on bad scans. Faint photocopies, heavy stamps, and dense handwriting still lose characters. Check anything you intend to quote.
  • Some tool pages describe capabilities that live elsewhere. Document Analyst is how document questions work in Chat; Redline Analysis runs through Compare Documents; Contract Debugger and Canned Responses are not currently available as tabs in the hub.
  • Nothing here replaces review by a qualified lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction.

Contract Review

The deepest tool in the suite, and the one playbooks were built for.

Playbooks

Encode your negotiation positions once so reviews grade against your standards.

Compliance Check

Framework-by-framework gap analysis with drafted remediation.

Compare Documents

Redline two versions with native Word tracked-changes export.

Document Matrix

The same questions across up to hundreds of documents.

Skills

Saved playbooks that combine tools with your firm’s standards.

File Formats

What Vaquill AI accepts, and how scanned documents are handled.

Plans and Limits

Per-tool caps, credit costs, and document size ceilings.
Last modified on August 6, 2026