AI legal document drafting that shows its work before it writes a word
Answer a guided intake — who the parties are, which law governs it, how the draft should favour your side — and get an editable document back, with compliance checks already run and every clause a plain-English instruction away from being rewritten. No blank page, and no template pretending your deal is generic.
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What is AI legal document drafting?
Drafting a legal document is mostly a sequencing problem: knowing which facts to ask for, in what order, before a single clause gets written. AI legal document drafting is a structured intake that asks for those facts explicitly — parties, jurisdiction, risk posture, terms — instead of leaving you to prompt a blank text box and hope nothing important got left out. What it does not do is decide the deal for you. The draft is a starting point a lawyer reads before anyone signs it.
Five steps, then an editor — not a chat window guessing at your deal
A general-purpose chatbot will draft an NDA if you ask it to, and it will also quietly assume a governing law, a confidentiality period and a dispute resolution method you never chose. This intake exists so those decisions are yours, made once, on purpose — and so the compliance panel beside the finished draft is checking answers you actually gave, not guesses it made on your behalf.
Document & Industry
Pick the document type and, optionally, an industry. The industry doesn't just relabel the draft — it changes which clauses it reaches for, because a SaaS terms of service and a marketplace terms of service need different provisions by default.
Parties
Name every party, their entity type, and — critically — which one you represent. Everything generated after this step is written from that side, the same way a lawyer drafts for a client rather than for the deal in the abstract.
Document-Specific Terms
The facts this particular document type actually needs: mutual or one-way and how long confidentiality lasts for an NDA; compensation, non-compete and IP assignment for an employment contract; data types and third-party sharing for a privacy policy.
Risk & Terms
Set the overall posture from conservative to aggressive, choose litigation or arbitration, decide how many signatories and whether e-signature is acceptable, pick a fixed or auto-renewing term, and flag the governing law and any compliance frameworks that apply.
Review & Generate
Add any plain-English instructions the structured fields didn't capture, optionally turn on deep reasoning or web search, then generate. The draft opens in an editor next to a live compliance panel — not a wall of text you have to audit cold.
Fix one clause, not the whole draft
The generated draft isn't the finished document — it's the version you edit. Select any clause, describe the change in plain English, and only that clause is rewritten; the rest of the document stays exactly as it was.
6. Term
This Agreement shall remain in effect for a period of one (1) year from the Effective Date, and shall automatically renew for successive one (1) year terms unless either party provides written notice of non-renewal at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the then-current term.
Rewritten — selection only
…unless either party provides written notice of non-renewal at least sixty (60) days prior to the end of the then-current term, delivered to the address for notices set out in Section 12.
The layout, the refine bar and the export menu are the real ones. The NDA language is invented for this illustration — no real agreement is quoted here.
Instruction in, clause out
"Make the notice period sixty days" or "add a carve-out for compelled disclosure" — the instruction is answered by rewriting the selection, or the whole document if nothing is selected. No regenerating from scratch to change one number.
Compliance checks beside it
The same panel that watched the intake keeps running as you edit — a rewrite that removes the governing law clause, or leaves a party unnamed, gets flagged before you export rather than after.
Export DOCX or PDF
The formatted document, not a markdown dump — DOCX for a colleague who will keep editing it, PDF for one that just needs to read it. Save it to the document list first if you want a version to come back to.
Save straight to the matter
On the Business plan, a finished draft attaches to a case alongside the chats, files and history for that matter — instead of living as a loose download nobody can find in three months.
Gaps get flagged before you sign, not after
Most drafting tools tell you whether a document is complete when you're already reading the finished PDF. This one tells you while you're still filling in the intake — a missing governing law is a warning on step four, not a surprise on step nine.
- Party checks — every party named, with an entity type and a role, before generation runs
- Governing law and dispute venue — flagged separately, because a document can have one without the other
- Compliance-framework flags — GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA and eight others, raised when the document or data involved looks like it should account for one
- The same panel stays open while you edit, so a rewrite that quietly breaks something gets caught before export
- A permanent reminder that the draft is AI-generated sits at the bottom of the panel on every plan — it is never hidden once you've paid
Compliance review
Parties identified
Both parties are named with entity type and role.
Governing law selected
California — dispute venue and compliance checks are calibrated to it.
No dispute venue set
A specific court or arbitral seat isn't chosen yet — add one before finalising.
GDPR flagged
One party or data type triggers GDPR — the draft should carry an EU data clause.
AI-generated draft. Have a licensed attorney review it before it is signed or sent.
Draft for the side you're actually on
Two NDAs with identical parties can read completely differently depending on how hard the draft is instructed to push. Posture isn't a personality slider — it's what indemnification, liability caps, termination rights and warranty language it starts from.
Step 4 of 5
Risk posture & terms
How aggressively should the draft favour your side, and how are disputes resolved?
Overall posture
Dispute resolution
Compliance frameworks to account for
Conservative to aggressive
One dial sets the overall posture, and four more refine it — indemnification narrow, mutual or broad; liability capped, mutually capped or uncapped; termination restrictive or liberal; warranties minimal or extensive. Nothing here is guessed from the document type alone.
Dispute resolution, chosen not assumed
Litigation, arbitration, or mediation before either — with AAA, JAMS or ICC institutional rules and a class-action waiver as separate toggles. A general-purpose draft defaults to litigation because it has to default to something; this one asks.
Signatures and term, spelled out
Number of signatories, whether a witness or notarisation is required, whether electronic signature is acceptable, and a fixed, auto-renewing, evergreen or perpetual term — the mechanical details that decide whether the document actually closes.
61 jurisdictions, eleven compliance frameworks
Governing law isn't a dropdown that relabels the same document. It changes which statutory protections the draft has to leave room for, and — set alongside the compliance frameworks you flag — which sections it should include at all.
- Governing law: US federal, all 50 states and DC, plus the UK, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Dubai (UAE) and South Africa — or a worldwide setting for a document with no single home
- A separate dispute-venue field, because the court or seat of arbitration a dispute goes to isn't always the same jurisdiction whose law governs the contract
- Eleven compliance frameworks to flag directly, rather than hoping the model infers them from context
- Flagging a framework tells the draft to account for it — it is not a compliance certification, and the result is still something a lawyer signs off on
- The same jurisdiction data powers document review and contract review, so a document drafted here reads consistently with one reviewed there
Compliance frameworks you can flag
Available on any document, not just privacy policies — an employment contract for a healthcare employer can flag HIPAA, and a terms of service for a fintech product can flag GLBA and PCI DSS alongside it.
- GDPR (EU)
- CCPA / CPRA
- HIPAA
- FERPA
- COPPA
- SOX
- PCI DSS
- GLBA
- eIDAS
- PIPEDA
- FADP
Flagged frameworks shape the draft and show up as checks in the compliance panel — they don't replace a privacy or compliance review from someone who owns that risk.
Five document types, eleven industries
Five document types, each tunable across eleven industries. That is a deliberately shorter list than a template site with a thousand downloads — every type on it gets the full intake, not a fill-in-the-blank form.
Already have the document? This tool authors a new draft from the intake — it doesn't take an existing agreement and redline it. To check a lease, purchase agreement, will or any of the other document types outside this list, or to analyse a document someone sent you, see AI document review — and for a commercial agreement you're about to negotiate, AI contract review.
Eleven industries, each changing the defaults
Naming the industry isn't cosmetic — it changes which optional clauses the draft turns on by default and which document-specific questions it asks.
DOCX or PDF, on any plan that drafts
Export as a formatted Word document to keep editing outside the app, or as a PDF once it's ready to send. Save-to-case for matter linking is Business only.
How to draft a legal document with AI
Five steps, in the order that actually works. The intake takes minutes; the editing loop is as long as it needs to be, because it's clause by clause rather than draft by draft.
Pick the document type and industry
Choose from the five supported types and, optionally, the industry — this sets which clauses the draft reaches for by default before you've answered a single question about the deal itself.
Name the parties and say which one you represent
Every clause downstream is written from a side. Skip this and you get a neutral document nobody actually wanted — the same problem a summary has when it won't tell you whose risk it's describing.
Answer the document-specific and jurisdiction questions
Term length, compensation, service type, data types — whatever this document type calls for — plus governing law, dispute venue, and any compliance frameworks that apply to it.
Set the risk posture, dispute resolution and term
Conservative, balanced or aggressive; litigation, arbitration or mediation first; fixed term or auto-renewing. These are the levers that decide what the draft is actually willing to ask for on your behalf.
Generate, refine clause by clause, then export
Read the draft against the compliance checks running beside it, select any clause you want changed and describe the fix, then export to DOCX or PDF once a human — not the tool — has read the whole thing.
Where drafting earns its keep
The five document types map cleanly onto four recurring jobs. If your need doesn't land in one of these, it's worth checking the document-type list above before you start the intake.
Startups & SaaS
Terms of service and a privacy policy before launch, tuned to the technology/SaaS industry setting so subscription terms, user-generated content and cookie disclosures are on by default instead of things you remember to add later.
HR & people teams
Employment contracts across full-time, part-time, fixed-term or at-will arrangements, with non-compete, non-solicitation, IP assignment and severance as clause toggles — set once per role, not re-typed per hire.
Deal & partnership work
A mutual or one-way NDA before a pitch, a vendor conversation, or a partnership discussion starts — with the confidentiality duration and any non-compete or residuals clause set explicitly rather than left to a generic template.
Brand & IP protection
Cease-and-desist letters for trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, breach-of-contract, defamation or harassment situations, with the specific facts, the demanded action and a compliance deadline built into the draft.
Which AI is best for drafting legal documents?
We're not going to claim to be the best AI for drafting legal documents — every vendor in this category says that, and a landing page can't prove it. Here are the six questions that actually separate them, including the one where a service beats software.
Does it ask, or does it assume?
A prompt box will draft an NDA with whatever governing law and confidentiality period it guesses at. A structured intake asks — which means the choices in the final document are ones you actually made.
Can you fix one clause without regenerating everything?
If changing a notice period means re-running the whole draft and re-reading every clause to see what else moved, the tool is fighting you. Selection-level edits are what make revision fast instead of risky.
Does it check itself as you go?
A document that tells you it's missing a governing law clause while you're still in the intake is worth more than one that hands you a finished PDF and lets you find the gap yourself.
Does it know your jurisdiction?
Governing law changes what a document should say, not just what it's called. A tool that drafts the same NDA for California and for Germany is not really jurisdiction-aware.
Is your draft excluded from training?
This should be answerable in one sentence, in writing, before you type a single party name into it — not a claim you have to dig for in a privacy policy.
Can you try it on a real document?
You'll know within one genuine NDA or employment contract whether the intake actually captures how your documents get negotiated. Pricing that hides that behind a sales call is telling you something.
Where a drafting service or outside counsel still wins
If what you need is a bespoke document type outside this list — a lease, a purchase agreement, an operating agreement, a will — or a document that has to be negotiated line-by-line against a counterparty's redline, a legal document drafting service or the lawyer already on retainer earns their fee and this doesn't replace them. What this replaces is the first draft of five common document types, produced faster than a blank page allows, for someone who is still going to have it reviewed.
What this is not
Every vendor in this category has a feature matrix with ticks all the way down. Here's the honest version, so you can rule us out in two minutes rather than two weeks.
Five document types, not a universal generator
NDAs, employment contracts, terms of service, privacy policies and cease-and-desist letters — that's the list. No leases, wills, purchase agreements, operating agreements or IP assignments yet, and no court filings or pleadings.
It drafts new documents; it doesn't redline yours
The starting point is always the intake, not a document you upload. To review, revise or negotiate a document you already have, that's document review or contract review, not this.
No e-signature workflow
"Electronic signature acceptable" is a drafting preference recorded in the document text — it is not a DocuSign-style send-for-signature integration. Getting the document actually signed still happens elsewhere.
No court filing formatting
This is built for commercial and employment documents, not pleadings, motions or anything with e-filing formatting requirements attached to it.
Flagging a framework isn't a compliance guarantee
Ticking GDPR or HIPAA tells the draft to account for it. Whether the finished document is actually compliant with that framework is a determination your compliance or privacy counsel still has to make.
Save-to-case is Business only
Matter linking — attaching a draft to the case it belongs to — is a Business-plan feature. On Starter and Pro, a saved draft lives in the document list, not inside a case.
Your draft stays yours
Drafts and the intake behind them are encrypted at rest, stay private to your account, and are never used to train models. That is the whole answer, and it is the same answer whether you are on the $19.99 plan or the $89.99 one — read the details on our Trust Center.
Document drafting starts on Starter
The $0 plan is real and it is not a trial — but it covers legal Q&A and case law search, not document drafting. Drafting begins at ten documents a month on Starter, rises to fifty on Pro, and is unlimited on Business. Every paid plan starts with a free trial, so you can draft a real document before you decide.
Free
Legal Q&A and case law search — no document generations.
Free forever. No card required.
- 3 legal questions per day
- File uploads up to 1MB (3 per message)
- Case law search access
- No document generations
Starter
Ten drafted documents a month.
- Unlimited legal Q&A
- 5 deep reasoning requests/day
- 10 document reviews/month
- 10 document generations/month
- File uploads up to 10MB (5 per message)
- Case law search access
- Email support
Pro
For teams drafting NDAs and contracts weekly.
- Everything in Starter
- 15 deep reasoning requests/day
- 50 document reviews/month
- 50 document generations/month
- File uploads up to 25MB (10 per message)
- Priority email support
Business
Unlimited drafts, plus case linking and web search.
- Everything in Pro
- Cases: shared chats, documents & matter context
- 30 deep reasoning requests/day
- Unlimited document reviews
- Unlimited document generations
- File uploads up to 50MB, unlimited attachments
- Real-time web search
- Dedicated live chat support
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What it looks like in practice
The same two surfaces, captured live rather than rebuilt.
Document drafting questions
Turn the intake into a draft you can actually send
Pick a document type, answer five short steps, and read the draft against the compliance checks running beside it. That's the fastest way to know whether this belongs in your practice.