Review a draft agreement against your precedents and playbook: AI agent prompt

Feed a draft agreement, a few chosen precedents and your negotiating playbook to an AI that reviews it from several angles, has the findings challenged, and returns a memo plus proposed tracked changes for a lawyer to accept or reject. Sullivan & Cromwell built its Agreement Analyzer this way with OpenAI.

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The prompt

Act as a careful first-pass reviewer for a lawyer. Draft agreement: [paste]. Precedents to compare against: [paste 1-3 prior agreements or clauses]. Our playbook positions: [paste]. Client priorities: [list]. Review the draft in three separate passes: (1) deviations from our precedents and market practice, (2) risk allocation and how clauses interact, (3) ambiguities that could cause a dispute. Then challenge your own findings: for each, say whether it holds up, should be dismissed, or is unverified. Output a short memo grouped by confidence, quoting the exact clause and the precedent or playbook line behind each point, and a table of proposed redlines (current text, suggested text, reason). Do not state market practice without pointing to a source I gave you. This is not legal advice; a lawyer will decide.

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Do not state market practice without pointing to a source I gave you.

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Anything legal, tax or compliance-related is a first draft for a qualified person to check. It is not professional advice, and clause references and deadlines must be checked against the source.
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