AI · LEGAL AI
Trade contracts don't live in a vacuum. A supply agreement references an order. A change order modifies a milestone. A quality agreement binds a supplier whose track record is in your data. Legal AI reads the contract AND your operational graph — flagging risk clauses against your playbook, drafting amendments with the operational context already there, and surfacing dispute precedents from your own past contracts. Not a generic legal AI. Yours, with everything attached.
CONTRACT REVIEW · WITH OPERATIONAL CONTEXT ATTACHED
A supply agreement from Crescent Manufacturing arrives for review. Legal AI opens the document — and pulls in the supplier's track record, the destination jurisdictions, the orders this contract governs, and the dollars on the line. Three panels. One review. Every flag tied back to operational data the contract is actually about.
Same screen for an NDA, an LC review, a change order, a force-majeure invocation. Operational context follows the contract — not the other way around.
THE PROBLEM LEGAL AI SOLVES
Supply agreement signed last quarter. Production starts this quarter. The clause about Net 45 payment terms gets missed at hand-off. Three months later finance is fighting a $400K AR dispute the contract said was coming — if anyone had been reading the contract and the cash flow at the same time.
Harvey, Spellbook, Ironclad — all see the contract. None of them see the supplier's QC pass rate, the destination's MDR requirements, the prior dispute on identical wording, or the company's playbook. They read words. They don't read context. Strong language model, zero operational fluency.
Mid-market trade operator signs 50+ contracts a year — most routine supply agreements, change orders, NDAs. $750K+ a year in external legal review fees on documents your team understands better than counsel does. Outside counsel should be reserved for the unusual.
WHAT LEGAL AI DOES
Legal AI is a tool, not a lawyer. It compresses the routine into minutes and prepares the unusual for outside counsel. Each function runs against the operational graph; each output is auditable, redlinable, and owned by the operator.
Compare contract to your standard clauses. Flag deviations against your baseline supply, NDA, quality, distribution templates. Propose redlines with clause-by-clause rationale. Three colours: compliant, review, risk.
Generate amendments, change orders, supply agreements, quality agreements — assembled from operational data, your standard templates, and your prior contracts as precedent. Drafts inherit your firm's voice and jurisdictional norms.
When a change to an existing contract is requested, compute the economic and operational impact. Surface ripple effects on related orders, milestones, payment schedules, certifications — before the redline lands.
Match contract clauses against destination regulations. Flag missing cites, ambiguous incorporations, and jurisdiction conflicts across 27 regulatory regimes. Example: EU MDR Art. 10(15) registration cite required for this class of device — missing in § 12.
Pull together the evidence chain for any active dispute — contract version + performance data + communication log + payment history. Cross-reference precedent from the operator's own prior disputes. Draft an initial position memo for counsel to refine.
WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT
Generic legal AI tokenises words. Legal AI traverses two graphs in parallel — the contract on one side, the operational reality on the other. Every clause it flags is anchored to data the contract is supposed to govern.
Legal AI doesn't review contracts in isolation. It reviews them against the operational reality they govern.
CUSTOMIZATION
Legal AI is opinionated about trade. It is silent about your trade. Upload your playbook, train on your history, draft in your voice — the model adapts to the operator, not the other way around.
Your standard supply agreement, quality agreement, NDA, distribution agreement. Legal AI parses each into structured clauses and uses them as the baseline for every review. Updates to a template propagate forward; old reviews are versioned.
Past contracts plus their outcomes — clean, amended, disputed — inform Legal AI's risk weighting. The clause that produced a 9-month dispute last year is now flagged before it lands in the next draft. Your data, your patterns, your weights.
Legal AI drafts in your firm's voice. Sentence patterns, hedging language, jurisdictional norms, defined-term casing — preserved across amendments, change orders, and dispute memos. A reviewer should not be able to tell which paragraphs were drafted by which.
DOCUMENT TYPES · v1
These are the contracts a mid-market trade operator actually signs. Each type ships with a default playbook stub, a redline mode, and jurisdictional cite tables across 27 regimes. Custom types onboarded in one engagement.
Supply agreements
MSAs and SOWs · multi-jurisdiction · volume, QC, pricing, renewal.
review · draft · redlinePurchase orders
With custom terms · INCOTERMS · packaging spec · acceptance criteria.
review · draftQuality agreements
QA · CAPA · audit rights · regulated-industry annexes (FDA, EMA, ANVISA).
review · draft · redlineDistribution agreements
Exclusive / non-exclusive · territory · minimums · IP carve-outs.
review · draft · redlineNDAs
Mutual & one-way · trade-specific carve-outs · jurisdiction-aware.
review · draft · autoLetters of Credit
Terms review · UCP 600 cite check · document-collection alignment.
review · adviseMAH letters
Marketing Authorisation Holder · pharma · cross-jurisdiction templates.
review · draftCustoms documentation
CO, EUR.1, packing lists · review against shipment record and HS codes.
review · cite checkChange orders
With economic + operational impact analysis on related orders, milestones, LCs.
draft · impact analysisForce majeure invocations
Drafted from event record, contract definition, and notice requirements.
draft · jurisdictionalSettlement agreements
Disputed-claim resolution · with evidence chain pre-assembled for counsel.
draft · prep for counselLicense agreements
Technology transfer · know-how · field-of-use · royalty calc reconciliation.
review · draft · redlineTRUST ARCHITECTURE
Privileged material, draft positions, dispute evidence, settlement terms. Legal AI is designed for legal data from the ground up — five layers, every commercial provider on ZDR, Sovereign and Air-Gapped tiers available for the contracts where the leak is the lawsuit.
Zero Data Retention contracts on every commercial AI provider in the pipeline — data is not used for training, not retained for abuse review, not seen by humans.
claude · openai · gemini · azure · bedrockFor highly sensitive contracts. Sovereign keeps inference in your region; Air-Gapped runs in your VPC or on-prem with no internet egress. Recommended for privileged matters.
recommended · privileged · M&A · litigationBYOK on documents and embeddings — KMS, CloudHSM, or HSM-backed key custody. Revoke a key, the corpus goes dark to Legal AI within seconds. You own the kill switch.
AWS KMS · GCP KMS · Azure KV · on-prem HSMEvery Legal AI interaction logged — input contract version, retrieved graph nodes, model + provider, output, reviewer signature, version diff. Exportable for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR.
SIEM export · CEF · JSON · WORM-eligibleLegal AI is a force multiplier, not a substitute. High-stakes matters — litigation, M&A, novel jurisdictions — still warrant outside counsel. Legal AI shortens preparation; your lawyer reviews the output.
tool · not lawyer · always reviewableVS. ALTERNATIVES
Each row is something a trade operator actually needs the contract reviewer to handle. The honest answer for each tool — including ours.
| Capability | Legal AIEDMA · trade-native | Harveygeneric AI for law firms | SpellbookWord add-in · contract AI | Ironclad CLMcontract lifecycle mgmt | Outside counsel~ $15K / review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reviews contract with operational graph (supplier, order, jurisdiction, payments) | ✓ | — | — | — | if you brief them |
| Trade-specific clause patterns (LC, MAH, customs, MDR cites) | ✓ | — | — | — | specialist counsel |
| Jurisdiction-aware compliance · 27 regimes at v1 | ✓ | major regimes | US + UK | — | per jurisdiction |
| Operator playbook as the baseline (your clauses, your thresholds) | ✓ | firm playbook | user playbook | template repo | — |
| Historical precedent from operator's own past contracts & disputes | ✓ | — | — | if filed in CLM | if briefed |
| Change-order impact analysis (ripple on orders, milestones, LCs) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| ZDR on every provider · Sovereign + Air-Gapped tiers available | ✓ | enterprise tier | enterprise tier | SaaS only | firm policy |
| Audit chain on every interaction (input, retrieval, output, reviewer) | ✓ | run history | run history | workflow log | via firm |
| Average per-contract review approach | graph-attached | text-only | template + redline | workflow + person | manual |
FAQ
If you have a sixth, we'd rather answer it on a call than write it here.
No. Legal AI is a force multiplier for routine review and drafting. High-stakes matters — litigation, M&A, novel jurisdictions, regulatory enforcement — still warrant outside counsel. Legal AI shortens preparation and assembles the evidence chain; your lawyer reviews the output. We are explicit about this: Legal AI is a tool, not a person.
Book a 30-minute demo. Bring a real supply agreement, NDA, or change order from the last 90 days. We'll wire it to your operational graph during the call and walk through the flagged clauses, the redline, and the precedent.