I'm the GC building an AI-powered legal function at Worksome and I’m documenting everything.
This morning I asked myself whether I’d missed an issue in an agreement, and how. Before AI, answering that meant hours of comparing versions. This time it took one minute and two prompts. Here’s what I asked, what came back, and why “we never checked” is getting harder to say.
Last week Wordsmith changed something and I had to learn a new way of building a solution. Then my husband said ChatGPT had done the same to him. Claude keeps rearranging things too. I stopped asking which tool is best and started asking a different question: what do I own that survives the next update?
Most AI contract review assumes you have a playbook. A lot of contracts don't. Here's the AI review process I use when I have a contract without a playbook and need to incorporate both outside counsel and finance’s redlines. Plus, the one rule that keeps me in control: nothing touches the document until I've approved the list.