Do we need a lawyer before we can use this?

No. It ships with neutral defaults you can use straight away and refine later. If you already have a standard NDA, upload it and your policy is seeded from your own paper.

Does this mean we never need a lawyer?

No, and it does not give legal advice. What it changes is what you send them — two flagged clauses rather than a whole agreement and a vague worry, which is a smaller invoice and a faster reply.

For founders

Somebody sent you an NDA and it is now yours — not because you know contract law, but because there is nobody else and the deal is waiting.

You are the legal team

So you skim it at eleven at night, sign it, and hope. Then it happens again next week with a vendor agreement, and again with a customer's order form, and at some point somebody asks what you agreed to with a company you signed with eight months ago and you genuinely do not know.

The thing nobody says out loud is that the real fear is not signing something bad. It is that being careful will cost you the deal. Reading properly takes an evening you do not have, sending it to a lawyer takes a week and a bill, and the counterparty is waiting. So careful loses.

That trade-off is the actual problem, and it is the one worth removing.

What changes

Nothing arrives unread. Every contract is read before you open it — key terms pulled out, measured against standards you set once, and returned with a green, yellow or red verdict and the specific concerns listed. You are deciding, not discovering.
You are not asked to draft anything. Where a contract needs changes, the marked-up copy comes back as an ordinary Word document with real tracked changes, argued from the positions you configured. Send it as it is, or edit it first.
Your lawyer gets cheaper, not unnecessary. When something genuinely needs counsel, you send them the two clauses that matter instead of a whole agreement and a vague worry. That is a much smaller invoice — and a much faster reply.
You can answer "what did we agree with them?" Everything reviewed, and everything signed, lands in one searchable place with its terms extracted. What you have already signed can be bulk-imported, so it starts complete rather than from today.
Renewals stop being a surprise. Alerts at 60, 30, 14 and 7 days before a contract expires — enough warning to renegotiate rather than discover an auto-renewal after it fired.

What it will not do

It does not give legal advice and it does not decide anything. There is no auto-approval: AI does the reading, the extraction and the first draft of the markup, and a person approves or rejects. What it makes you is a well-briefed reader, quickly — which is the difference between signing in an hour and signing in a week.

It is also not a full contract system. If you reach the point of needing clause libraries and obligation management, you will know, and you should buy one. This is for the stage before that, which for most companies lasts years.

Getting started

Install it into Slack or Microsoft Teams, make sure somebody has the Legal role so they can see review buttons, and submit a real contract. That is the whole setup. There are neutral defaults to start from, so you do not need a lawyer to configure it — and if you already have a standard NDA, upload it and your policy is seeded from your own paper.

See document review, the CFO's version of this problem, or how your documents are handled.