A first draft from your own templates
Pick a template, and Gathersense assembles a draft from your firm's own clauses, with the playbook applied and the matter facts filled in.
Drafting
Your playbook, in every draft.
Gathersense assembles a first draft from your firm's own clauses and templates, ready for you to refine. A starting point, never finished work.
Mutual NDA · first draft
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Parties and recitals
Template · NDA v4
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Definitions
Clause library 2.1
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Confidentiality obligations
Clause library 5.3
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Term and termination
Playbook v3 · preferred
Traceable by construction. Every part of the draft records the clause and the playbook version that produced it.
The problem
The blank page is the slow part.
A first draft starts from the same clauses every time, but the lawyer rebuilds it by hand, or copies an old one and hopes it was current.
What it does
Start every draft from your own templates, not a blank page.
A first draft assembled from the firm's own clauses, not from a generic model.
Drafting that reflects the firm's templates, fallback positions, and red lines.
Matter facts filled in where the template calls for them.
A starting point that saves the blank-page hour. The lawyer stays the drafter.
How it works
From template to first draft.
The clause library, the templates, and the playbook that power review also power drafting.
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Pick the template
Your firm's own template, not a generic form. An NDA, a services agreement, a filing.
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The draft assembles from your clauses
Preferred positions come from your clause library, with fallbacks one click away and the playbook applied throughout.
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Matter facts fill in
The template pulls the parties, dates, and terms it needs from the matter, so the draft arrives already grounded in the deal in front of you.
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You refine and sign off
The draft is a starting point, never finished work. Every part records the clause and playbook version that produced it.
Services Agreement · first draft
From template MSA v4 · Playbook v3 applied
8. Confidentiality
Each party shall keep confidential all Confidential Information received from the other and shall use it only for the purposes of this Agreement.
The obligations in this clause survive termination and continue for three (3) years from the date of disclosure, save for trade secrets, which remain protected without limit of time.
From your clause library · 5.3 Confidentiality, preferred
Three-year survival with a trade-secret carve-out is your preferred position. The fallback (5.3a, two years) sits one click away if the counterparty pushes.
Keep preferred Use fallback 5.3a
Every clause records the template, clause, and playbook version that produced it.
In the product
The firm's knowledge, doing the assembling.
Pick a template, and Gathersense assembles a draft from your firm's own clauses, with the playbook applied and the matter facts filled in. You refine it and sign off.
Playbook-aware
The firm's standards shape the draft, so it starts from your positions rather than a model's defaults.
Your fallbacks, one click away
Preferred positions lead the draft. When the counterparty pushes, the fallback from your clause library is at hand, not in someone's memory.
Traceable by construction
Every part of the draft is traceable to the template, clause, and playbook version that produced it.
Yours to refine
The draft is a starting point, not finished work. The lawyer edits and signs off, always.
A record of what produced it
Which template, which clauses, which playbook version. The provenance of the draft is part of the draft.
The draft uses the firm's clauses and the firm's standards, not a model's defaults. The knowledge stays inside the firm, in the templates, not in one person's head. Every part of the draft records what produced it.
- Every part of a draft records the clause and playbook version behind it.
- The firm's templates stay the firm's. No training on your data.
- The lawyer edits and signs off, always.
In practice
The drafts that come up every week.
Not moonshot documents. The steady work where consistency pays.
The NDA that goes out today
Assembled from your standard positions in less time than it takes to find the last one you sent.
First drafts of filings
An application or a filing assembled from the firm's own templates, inside the case's matter, with the facts already in place.
Templates that keep the firm's knowledge
A partner's preferred positions live in the clause library, not in one inbox. The knowledge survives the org chart.
Consistency across drafters
Ten lawyers, one starting point. The variation left in the work is judgment, not memory.
Who it's for
Built for the lawyer and the function.
For the lawyer
The blank-page hour, saved. The draft starts from your own clauses, and you stay the drafter.
For the function
Consistency across drafts and drafters, with the firm's knowledge kept in the templates.
Where it's heading
Gathersense is building drafting into the editor you already use. A Word add-on is on the way.
Start your next draft from your own templates.
Bring a template and your clauses. We will show you a first draft assembled from your own standards.