Drafting & Negotiation

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. 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.

Drafts grounded in your templates and clauses
DOCX round-trip with native track changes
Turn-based lawyer–client collaboration
Describe → draft

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 or from a template — DPA, SaaS, and loan note included
  • Guided intake questions for vesting and shareholders agreements
  • 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
New draftFrom your library

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

Redline their paper

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
  • 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
vendor-msa-v3.docxTracked changes

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.

The drafting rail

What sits alongside the draft

Drafting and negotiation share one rail: the clause library you insert from, the playbook you negotiate against, and the audit trail that records every change.

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.

After signature

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
Contract lifecycleOne object
1

First draft — obligations previewed

2

Negotiation rounds — redlines and turns

3

Execution — signature recorded

4

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.

ClauseMinds is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.