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CASE 14

Contracts Brain

Contract turnaround used to be slow manual drafting. Now it starts as a guided AI draft and exports as a finished document.

Role
Design, build, automate
Client
Legal and medical teams
Year
2026
Stack
Web app · AI drafting
Status
Live in production

01 The problem

A contract started as a blank file and a tired afternoon. Someone opened the template, typed the terms in by hand, reworded the clauses, read it back, and exported it, and the clock ran a couple of hours while they did. Then the next one started from the same blank file. The hours were the smaller cost. The larger one was that a blank page is daunting, so nobody wanted to begin, and contracts sat waiting on a desk while the work they unblocked waited with them.

02 The system

A drafting tool with the AI working inside a real editor, not a chat window off to the side. You pick the contract type and answer a few guided questions, so the first thing you see is a draft instead of an empty page. The tool writes a full first pass, formatted and complete, in the editor where the work already happens. From there you change any clause directly, and the AI rewords on request, right where the cursor is. What comes out is a finished contract you can send, not a chat reply you have to copy, clean, and reformat first. The job was to move a person from staring at a template to editing a real draft inside the first minute, and it does.

03 How it holds up

It runs with no database. A client contract is never written to a server, never stored, never left sitting somewhere it could leak. The draft is built, edited, and exported in one place, and once you close it, nothing of it is kept. For legal and medical teams that is the whole point, because these documents carry sensitive terms and protected information that should never live in someone else’s storage. You get the speed of an AI draft without handing your contracts to a third party to hold. The safest place for a sensitive document is one that was never copied anywhere to begin with.

04 The result

A contract that used to take a couple of hours now takes a few minutes. Every draft begins from a guided first pass instead of a blank page, so the hardest part is behind you before you type a word. What you send out is a finished document, formatted and ready, not a wall of chat text to tidy up. The team drafts more and waits less, and no one has to wonder where a sensitive contract is being stored, because the answer is nowhere.

· How it works

  1. 01

    Start a draft

    Pick a contract type and answer a short guided prompt instead of opening a blank template.

  2. 02

    AI writes the first pass

    The tool drafts the contract inside a real editor, ready to shape.

  3. 03

    Edit in place

    Change any clause directly, with the AI on hand to revise wording as you go.

  4. 04

    Export finished

    Send out a clean document, not a chat reply, with nothing stored on a server.

· Results

Output
Finished document
Editor
AI-assisted
Status
Live in production

1. The draft exports as a finished document, formatted and ready to send.

2. There is no database. The tool does its work without storing client contracts on a server.