Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
4 philippb 9 7/29/2025, 10:42:47 PM
I just got an insane bill from a lawyer for drafting an agreement.
I was wondering if some of you have a great workflow for drafting legal agreements with AI that are good enough to have a lawyer just review it?
My background is CS, so it's hard judge myself and I feel ChatGPT doesn't give enough details.
It’s also important to perfectly prompt the “AI” promptly to perfection. You have to tell it who it is, what it is doing and make sure to be specific about the scope and legal matters involved.
Break it down into smaller chunks and once you have a draft you like, send the draft to another “AI” and ask it to play as a lawyer on the other side of your equation and “rip apart” the draft letter you wrote like any good lawyer would.
Make your two “AI” models adversarial to each other until the final result is a rock solid document.
Do you have an exit criteria that you can define for when the models stop picking on the other models solutions?
The bigger the bill, the more dollars are in your 30% markup when you pass your costs to the client.
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