Second Chair · Contract AI for Counsel

Counsel for the modern contract.

Second Chair reads your agreements the way the senior associate should — patiently, in the margin, with a trillion dollar supercomputer. Risk surfaces. Redlines draft themselves. Lifecycle keeps a record.

Average Review Time

38min

Down from 6.4 hours of associate time per first‑pass review.

Clauses Recognised

2,400+

A canon assembled from filings, templates, and annotated counsel notes.

Counter‑signed Last Quarter

14,602

Across MSAs, NDAs, DPAs, statements of work and order forms.

§ I — The Practice

A second chair that never closes the file.

Three connected disciplines. One contract record. Counsel keeps the keys; the business keeps moving.

01 / Read

Margin‑pinned analysis.

Every clause is extracted, scored, and pinned to its position in the document. Risk shows where the prose lives — not in a separate report you have to triangulate.

Risk profileCounsel notesTemplate diff

02 / Negotiate

Redlines that read like you.

Draft a counter in the voice of your firm. Second Chair remembers your fallback positions, your preferred carve‑outs, and the language your partners will actually sign.

PlaybooksFallback laddersInline chat

03 / Govern

A lifecycle of record.

Counsel approves before business sees. Every signature, every amendment, every renewal lives on a single timeline — auditable, exportable, defensible.

Approval gatesAudit trailRenewal calendar

§ II — The Workflow

From inbox to executed, with the right hands at every gate.

Second Chair separates what business owners can do from what counsel must approve. The split is opinionated. The audit trail is automatic.

T + 00:00

Intake.

Operations forwards a counterparty draft. Second Chair classifies it (MSA, NDA, DPA, SOW), pulls metadata, and assigns a matter ID.

Maya Chen

Operations

T + 00:04

First read.

Clauses are extracted and scored against your playbook. Anomalies, missing provisions, and conflicts with prior contracts are flagged.

Second Chair

Engine

T + 00:38

Counsel review.

The general counsel sees only what merits attention. Approval is a single deliberate gesture — and it is logged with the reasoning attached.

David Loschiavo

General Counsel

T + 02:10

Counter & close.

Approved redlines route back to counterparty. On counter‑signature, the executed copy is deposited and renewal milestones are scheduled.

Counterparty

External

Playbook Generator · Shared engine

The playbook isn't a setting. It's an artifact you already have.

No playbook yet? The generator drafts one from your history — fallback ladders, preferred language, escalation triggers — ready for counsel to mark up rather than write from a blank page.

01
Made legible.
Point us at your prior contracts and redlines. We extract every clause, cluster the patterns, and surface what your firm has actually accepted — risk band by risk band. The playbook that emerges is the one you've been writing for years; we just made it legible.
02
Extract & cluster your history.
Every executed agreement you've ever sent — read, normalised, and grouped by clause and matter type. The patterns that were there all along, made queryable. If you have redlines and counters, even better.
03
The risk you've actually accepted.
For each high‑stakes provision — indemnities, caps, IP, AI training, data — the floors and ceilings your firm has signed. Your real risk appetite, not the one the template implies.
04
Counsel‑of‑record review.
If you have or are an attorney of record on the file, the generator adds a layer: where positions have drifted, where peers in your bar are tighter, and a punch list of where the playbook should evolve next.

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Other tools dump a hundred findings on my desk and call it review. Second Chair shows me the three things that matter— and remembers what we agreed on the last six times.

DL

David Loschiavo

Founder & CEO · Goliath Dynamics

92%

of first‑pass reviews returned to ops within an hour.

6.4×

faster than partner‑led review on commercial paper.

SOC 2

Type II, ISO 27001, and a private‑cloud option for regulated industries.

0

customer documents used to train shared models. Ever.

§ III — Practice Areas

Built for the matters you actually run.

Each chamber ships with its own playbook, fallback library, and renewal calendar — tuned by counsel who practice in that area.

Chamber I

Commercial.

MSAs, order forms, statements of work. Margins, indemnities, and limits of liability handled with the rigor of a white‑shoe firm on the cadence of in‑house star operators.

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Chamber II

Confidentiality & AI.

Mutuals, one‑ways, supplier NDAs. AI carve‑outs, training restrictions, and residuals — drafted to your standard, signed without back‑and‑forth.

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Chamber III

Privacy & Data.

DPAs, sub‑processor lists, transfer mechanisms. The clauses that move with the regulation, kept current by a panel of practitioners.

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Chamber IV

Employment & Contractors.

Offers, separations, contractor SOWs and 1099 classification. Option grants and 83(b) elections — because you've only got 30 days. Sensitive matter, handled with the discretion the file deserves.

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Chamber V

Intellectual Property.

Assignments, licenses, and joint development. Patent, trademark, and copyright matter — chain of title kept clean, ownership carve‑outs negotiated, and prior art docketed before the file closes.

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Chamber VI

Corporate & Governance.

Formation, board and stockholder consents, bylaws and 409As. SAFEs and side letters papered the way your future Series A counsel will want them.

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§ IV — Begin

Bring Second Chair into your review queue.

See Second Chair work on a sample agreement. We'll walk through how it surfaces risk in the margin, drafts redlines in your playbook's voice, and slots into the review workflow your counsel already runs.