Draft From Language You Already Trust
Describe what you need and get a first draft assembled from your own vetted templates and clause library — never freeform generation. Import your firm's own .docx template and it is filled surgically, your styles and numbering intact. Redline the counterparty's paper in place, and export a real Word redline with native tracked changes.
Built for transactional lawyers who answer for every word in the document. Lawyer accounts are verified and operator-approved.
Say what you need. Get a draft built from your own language.
Describe the deal in plain language — parties, term, posture — and ClauseMinds assembles a first draft from your vetted templates and clause library. Every section traces to a template or a library clause. Nothing is generated freeform.
- Start from a description, a built-in template — DPA, SaaS, loan note — or your firm's own .docx
- Guided intake questions for vesting and shareholders agreements
- Governing-law intake accepts any jurisdiction as free text — not a US-state list — with disclaimers where terms are jurisdiction-sensitive
- Every section shows which template or library clause it came from
- Conditional clauses switch on the answers you give at intake
- No freeform generation — if it is not in your vetted language, it is not in the draft
Your description
“Mutual NDA with a prospective vendor. Two-year term, Delaware law, add non-solicitation.”
Assembled draft
1. Confidential Information
Your template — NDA v4
2. Term — 2 years
Your template — NDA v4
3. Non-solicitation
Clause library — fallback position
4. Governing law — Delaware
Clause library — standard
Your template, filled — not replaced
Import the .docx template your firm already drafts from. ClauseMinds fills it surgically — parties, dates, deal terms — while your styles, your numbering, and your wording stay exactly as you wrote them. The output is your document, not the tool's.
- Import any .docx template your firm already uses
- Fills are surgical: styles, numbering, and wording are preserved
- Define once what each template needs answered before it can be filled
- Export opens in Word as your template — filled, nothing reformatted
3. Fees and invoicing
3.1 The Client shall pay the Consultant a fixed fee of EUR 12,000, invoiced monthly in arrears with fourteen (14) days payment terms.
Your clause 3.1, word for word — only the blanks are filled.
Preserved
Your styles, your numbering, your language. The export opens in Word as your template, filled.
The client's answers arrive ready to use
Define what you need for a matter and send the client a link — their answers flow straight into the draft. Have call notes or a meeting transcript instead? Paste them in, and ClauseMinds proposes the fills. You approve each one before anything lands in the document.
- Build a questionnaire once; reuse it for every matter of that type
- Clients answer through a shareable link and answers map to the template's fields
- Paste call notes or a transcript — proposed fills come back for review
- You approve every proposed fill one by one; nothing is applied silently
Answered via link
Client entity
Northwind Consulting Ltd
Fee and invoicing
EUR 12,000 fixed, monthly
Start date
1 September 2026
From your call notes
“…agreed to extend the notice period to 60 days…”
Proposed fill: Termination notice — 60 days. Waiting for your approval.
Their document, your redline, a real Word file back
Upload the counterparty's .docx — existing track changes included — and redline it in place. Export produces a genuine Word redline with native tracked insertions and deletions (w:ins/w:del), so outside counsel keeps working in Word with nothing lost in translation. To be clear about the boundary: ClauseMinds round-trips DOCX; it is not an in-Word add-in editor.
- Imports .docx, including the other side's existing track changes
- Paste or upload their counter-proposal — every divergence becomes a one-click accept or reject
- Exports native w:ins/w:del — real tracked changes, not a lookalike diff
- Whole-document redline against your playbook in one pass
- Playbook rules carry a preferred position and a fallback posture
- The same playbook checks third-party paper on upload
11. Limitation of liability
In no event shall either party’s aggregate liability exceed the fees paid in the one (1) month the fees paid in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim.
Playbook: preferred 12-month cap. Fallback: 6 months, mutual.
Export
Word redline with native tracked insertions and deletions. Opens in Word as ordinary track changes.
What sits alongside the draft
Drafting and negotiation share one rail: the clause library you insert from, the playbook you negotiate against, the audit trail that records every change — and the jurisdiction context and provenance that travel with the draft.
Turn-based collaboration
Lawyer and client work in turns: comments on the text, one-click suggested edits the other side can accept, and a full revision history with diffs.
Playbook positions
Each rule states a preferred position and a fallback posture. Run a whole-document redline against the playbook, or let it check uploaded third-party paper.
Insertable clause library
Drop vetted clauses into a draft directly. Clause-level explanations state what each clause does in plain language.
Market benchmarking
See how a term compares to market before you concede it or hold the line.
Conflict screening
Screen a new matter against your existing matters before you take it on.
Audit trail and export
Every change is recorded — who, what, when. Export the document as DOCX or PDF at any point.
Jurisdiction-aware intake
Governing law is captured as free text for any jurisdiction — not a US-state dropdown. General-terms disclaimers and jurisdiction-sensitivity caveats appear where the law changes the reading.
Law-reference notes
Clauses carry per-clause law-reference notes — the legal context a term sits in, stated plainly, with clear disclaimers.
Per-clause provenance
Every draft carries a report of who wrote what and what it was grounded on. Lawyer sign-off binds to the exact wording attested — edit the clause and the attestation lapses.
The draft and the tracked contract are the same object
Most drafting tools stop at signature. Most tracking tools start there. ClauseMinds carries one contract object from first draft through negotiation to execution — so the obligations you preview while drafting become tracked deadlines the day the contract is signed.
- Obligations are previewed while you draft, not discovered after signing
- At execution, previewed obligations become tracked deadlines
- One record from first draft to signature to tracked obligations
- In-app signing is demo-grade until an e-signature provider is connected
First draft — obligations previewed
Negotiation rounds — redlines and turns
Execution — signature recorded
Tracked obligations — deadlines and reminders live
Negotiate from your own language
Grounded drafts from your templates, real Word redlines back to outside counsel, and obligations that are tracked from the moment the contract is signed. Lawyer accounts are verified and operator-approved — request access.
Every draft carries a deterministic provenance report, and lawyer sign-off is attested clause by clause — see AI provenance. Running matters with clients end to end? see Work with clients.
ClauseMinds is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.