It works like a paralegal.You keep the signature.
Contract review is the anchor: the prior agreements pulled, the instrument read with its schedules, every position checked against your playbook, then a redline and a ranked issues memo. The rest of the legal queue comes with it. None of it leaves your network.
One matter, end to end.
The role is wider.
One typical matter, start to finish. The steps illustrate the job, they do not bound it. What the agent will not do is a list of decisions, not a list of tasks.
Builds the file before it reads
Pulls every prior agreement with this counterparty, its amendments and side letters, so the renewal is read against what you already signed.
Reads the instrument, not the clause list
Definitions that quietly change the operative clauses, cross-references, schedules, and the online terms incorporated three links away. That is where risk hides.
Checks positions against playbook and precedent
Your written position first, then what your counsel actually accepted on this clause before, and for whom. A deviation you have already blessed is not a finding.
Researches what the paper does not say
Whether the jurisdiction enforces the clause, what their group structure does to change of control, and which obligations your regulator now requires in supplier paper.
Drafts the package, not a document
The redline, the issues memo, the fallback ladder, and the internal note on what you are conceding and why. The negotiator opens all four together.
Comes back on every round
It diffs their counter against the version it marked, flags what moved quietly, and keeps the ladder current. The fourth round costs what the first did.
The rest of the legal queue
The six steps are one agreement. The same agent takes the research memo, the closing checklist, the signature packet, the clause bank cleanup, and the diligence questionnaire nobody wants. New work is a line in the brief, not a new deployment.
What lands
on your desk.
The deliverables, named. Each arrives as a draft with a person's name on the review, and every line in it carries the source it came from.
A redline in your own paper
Tracked changes in the original file, each carrying a note that names the playbook position or the precedent behind it.
An issues memo, ranked
Every deviation with its risk, its fallback, and the value at stake, ordered so the partner reads the three that matter first.
The fallback ladder
Position one, two, and three on each open point, drafted from language you have signed before. Nobody composes at the table.
The obligation register
After signature: what you owe, what they owe, notice windows, renewal dates, and every concession, filed to the matter.
The limit is authority,
not the task list.
It will take any work the role covers. These decisions still reach a person, regardless of how confident the model is.
Anything the playbook does not cover
A clause type with no position, an unusual deal structure, or a counterparty form nobody has seen. It is returned flagged as unreviewed, never quietly approximated.
Legal advice
The agent states positions and drafts language. Whether to accept a risk on this deal is a lawyer's call, and the record shows which lawyer made it.
Anything leaving the building
No email, no portal upload, no counterparty contact. Its last step is a draft in your document system with a named reviewer attached.
From brief
to live matters.
The same four steps for every agent, because the runtime underneath does not change between them.
- 01
The brief
We write down the job, the sources it may rely on, and the calls it never makes alone. You sign it before the agent connects to anything.
- 02
Reading rights
Read-only access to the corpus it needs: the contract archive, the data room copy, the case system. Nothing is written back during onboarding.
- 03
Supervised run
It works a matter your team has already closed. You compare its output against what your people produced, line by line, and the brief is tuned on the disagreements.
- 04
Live matters
It starts real work behind the thresholds you set, and they widen as the numbers hold. A named engineer stays on call for 90 days.
Same runtime,
different job description.
Each agent is a brief and a set of reading rights on infrastructure you have already deployed and already had reviewed.
“Give us a matter you have already closed. The agent works it cold, and you compare its issues list against what your team actually filed. That comparison is the whole sales process.”
Sebastian Mondragon, Founder of Particula Tech