I'm the GC building an AI-powered legal function at Worksome and I’m documenting everything.
I was advising an in-house legal team that couldn't decide between a legal ops person, a project manager or a legal engineer. Before anything else, I wanted to know what they meant by the last one. Here is the whole wheel, the examples, and the test I'd run on any candidate.
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.
I was out for three days and came back to a review over coffee, not a backlog. The business had handled a third-party NDA start to finish in Slack without me. Here’s the setup behind that, and what I’m still fixing.