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How do AI Employees give every contract a first pass review as it lands?

A contract review AI Employee that fires when a new contract lands in the folder, reads it against your own playbook, flags the clauses that deviate, and posts a summary to the legal channel with draft redlines attached. Every one of them waits for a lawyer to sign off before it reaches the counterparty.

YP×Slack
When
When a new contract lands in the folder
Systems
File storeSlack
Mode
First pass only. A lawyer signs off before anything ships
Problem

Contracts arrive faster than they can be read closely. A vendor agreement, an NDA, or an order form lands in a shared folder, and someone on the legal team has to open it, read it against what counts as standard, flag the clauses that deviate, and summarize it for whoever's driving the deal. The first pass is mechanical but time consuming, and it's the step that stands between a contract arriving and a lawyer being able to focus on what actually matters in it. The common approaches each fall short. A shared inbox where contracts pile up means the first pass waits on whoever has time. A generic summarizer produces a readout that doesn't know your positions, so it flags nothing that matters to you. And skipping the first pass entirely puts a lawyer straight into a full read of every contract, including the routine ones.

What it does

The contract review AI Employee fires when a new contract lands in the folder. It reads the full document, summarizes it, flags the clauses that deviate from your playbook, and posts the summary to the legal channel. It drafts redlines on the nonstandard clauses, but a lawyer signs off before anything goes back to the counterparty. It reads and writes its summary and drafts; it never acts on the deal.

How it works

See exactly how the work gets done.

Triggers on a new contract in the folder

A new file in the contracts folder is the trigger. Each new contract starts a fresh run seeded with that document: one contract, one run, and nothing carries over between them.

Checks against your contract playbook

Your standard positions travel with the AI Employee as a skill and memory: which clauses are routine, which terms you push back on, what an acceptable liability cap or notice period looks like. It checks each contract against that playbook rather than a generic notion of 'standard,' and it updates as your positions change.

Connects to your systems, with permissions you set

It reads the full contract from the File store, drafts proposed redlines on the clauses that deviate from the playbook, and posts the summary and flags to the legal channel in Slack. It connects with permissions you set; credentials stay in memory, never written to disk, never exposed to the model.

Produces a first pass, not a decision

Redlines are drafted, never sent. Every one pauses for a named human's signature before it reaches the counterparty. The AI Employee reads the contract and writes its summary and drafts; it doesn't act on the deal.

Lets each contract come back reviewed

A contract landing in the folder comes back as a summary in the legal channel, the nonstandard clauses flagged against your playbook, and draft redlines attached for a lawyer to review. A vendor agreement becomes a readout and a set of proposed edits; the lawyer starts from the flags instead of a blank read.

Guardrails

Runs in your environment

Every contract runs in your own infrastructure. It can reach only what it's scoped to, your data never leaves it, and only the summary and drafts it produces do.

Pauses for a named human's signature

Redlines are drafted, never sent. A lawyer reviews and signs off before anything reaches the counterparty.

Reads and flags, doesn't act

The AI Employee's writes are its summary, its flags, and its draft redlines. It has no path to act on the deal or send anything to the counterparty itself.

Credentials stay protected

Each credential connects with permissions you set; it stays in memory, never written to disk, never exposed to the model.

You own every rule

The AI Employee's playbook, skills, and permissions are yours, versioned and changed on your terms, not in a vendor dashboard.

The outcome

The first pass that used to wait on whoever had time now arrives as a summary and a set of playbook checked flags the moment a contract lands, with draft redlines attached. The lawyer starts from the flags instead of a cold read, and routine contracts stop consuming the time the tricky ones deserve.

Every contract

Summarized and checked against the playbook on arrival

Lawyer gated

Redlines drafted, never sent without sign off

2 systems

File store and Slack in one AI Employee

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How do AI Employees give every contract a first pass review as it lands? | YP AI