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Solution · In-house legal

Handle more, outsource less

A small in-house team clears routine review, answers the business the same day, and keeps the whole contract base searchable, with an audit trail that clears your own security review. Handle more of the work in-house, and send less of it out.

§ 01 - Same-day answersIn-house legal

The business asks, legal answers today

Routine questions get answered against your own playbooks and your own contracts rather than a lawyer reading from scratch. Commercial gets a same-day answer with the clause behind it, and legal keeps the calls that genuinely need judgement. Legal stops being the queue the business waits in.

  • Same-day answers, with the clause attached
  • Answered from your playbooks, not a generic model
  • Legal keeps the judgement calls
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Same-day answer
Sales asksCan we sign the Acme MSA as drafted?

Yes, once the liability cap is raised to your standard of 12 months’ fees.

Answered fromPlaybook · LiabilityToday
§ 02 - In-house firstIn-house legal

Keep the routine in, send only what needs it out

NDAs, supplier terms, DPAs, and the standard questions get handled in-house against your playbooks. Only the genuinely complex matters go to outside counsel, so the backlog the business waits on clears itself and the outside-counsel bill stops absorbing work you could keep.

  • Routine intake handled against your playbooks
  • Only the complex work leaves the building
  • Outside-counsel spend, down and visible
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IntakeThis week
10Requests
8Kept in-house
2To counsel
NDA · SalesIn-house
Supplier terms · ProcurementIn-house
DPA review · MarketingIn-house
Cross-border M&ATo counsel
Routine handled in-house, only the complex work goes out
§ 03 - Your contract baseIn-house legal

Ask your contracts a question

Which agreements auto-renew next quarter. Which carry uncapped liability. Which still need a DPA. One query across the whole base, with the source clause behind every answer, instead of a paralegal, a spreadsheet, and a fortnight.

  • One query across every agreement
  • The source clause behind each answer
  • Renewals and exposure, without the spreadsheet
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Ask your contracts
Which agreements auto-renew next quarter?
2,400 in the base18 flagged
Acme MSARenews 12 Mar
Bravo SaaSRenews 28 Mar
Delta leaseRenews 30 Mar
Every answer traced to the clause behind it
§ 04 - Security reviewIn-house legal

It clears the review you would run yourself

Data stays in the EU by default, every action lands in an encrypted, timestamped audit trail, and access is controlled per matter, per folder, and per role. The person who signs this off is usually you, which is why it is built to survive that conversation.

  • EU residency by default
  • An encrypted, timestamped audit trail on every action
  • Access controlled per matter, folder, and role
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Security reviewAudited
Controls
EU data residencyDefault
Encrypted, timestamped audit trailOn
Access per matter, folder, and roleEnforced
Audit trail
SM opened Acme MSA09:14Recorded
JR shared the diligence folder09:20Recorded
§ 05 - Where to startIn-house legal

Your top three contract types

NDAs, supplier agreements, and whatever the business signs most. Load the playbook you already apply by hand, run a month of real intake through it, and measure what stopped going out of house.

  • Start with the three you see most
  • Use the playbook you already apply
  • Measure what stopped leaving the building
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Start
Your top three contract types
NDAsYour playbook, handled in-houseNow
Supplier agreementsStandard terms, checked in-houseNext
Whatever you sign mostMeasured, and kept in the buildingNext
See it on your own work

Handle more,outsource less