Legal Tech · Contract review

Read the whole contract in the time it takes to read the first page.

Brief Forge is a contract-review instrument for solo lawyers and small firms. Drop in a contract; it extracts the terms that matter, scores every clause against market standard, and drafts the redlines — with its reasoning shown in the margin, the way a good associate would.

Indemnification · Clause 8.2 High risk

The Provider shall indemnify the Client against any and all claimsthird-party claims arising from the Services, without limitation.

Posture: Unusual

The premise

A first-pass review, from four hours to thirty minutes.

Structured fields extracted, per contract
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Redlines suggested, with rationale
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Risk postures per clause
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The method

Three movements, in order.

Every contract passes through the same disciplined sequence. Nothing is guessed at; each output carries its source, its score, or its reasoning.

  1. I.

    Extract

    The AI reads the document and lifts 14+ structured fields — parties, term, governing law, caps, notice periods — each with a confidence ring and a citation that jumps straight back to the source clause.

    Confidence-scored · Click-to-source

  2. II.

    Score

    Every clause is graded against market standard and flagged Unusual Market Favorable — so the ones that need a human are obvious before anyone opens the file.

    Clause-by-clause · vs. market standard

  3. III.

    Redline

    Where a clause is off-market, Brief Forge drafts the edit as an inline diff — strike and replacement — with a written rationale and an approve / reject control, so the lawyer stays the author.

    Inline diffs · Rationale · Approve / reject


In the product

The instrument, at work.

Brief Forge extraction view: a split pane listing more than fourteen extracted contract fields, each with a confidence score, and a click-to-source citation linking back to the underlying clause in the contract.
Fig. 1 — Extraction. 14+ fields lifted from the document, each confidence-scored and citation-linked back to its source clause.
Brief Forge risk grid: a clause-by-clause table labelling each contract clause as High risk, Unusual, Market or Favorable, with market-standard comparisons shown alongside.
Fig. 2 — Scoring. A clause-by-clause risk grid, each row measured against market standard and posture-flagged.
Brief Forge redline view: inline diffs showing struck text and suggested replacements, each accompanied by an AI rationale and approve or reject controls.
Fig. 3 — Redlining. Inline diffs with written rationale, approved or rejected by the lawyer — who stays the author.

In practice

What changes on the matter.

01

The first pass takes minutes, not an afternoon.

A review that ran four hours by hand compresses to about thirty. The associate opens a document that has already been read, scored, and marked up.

02

Risk surfaces at intake, before partner review.

Off-market and unusual clauses are flagged the moment a contract lands — so the questions worth a partner's time are visible before the file is ever escalated.

03

Every redline is tracked, per matter.

Approvals and rejections are recorded against the matter, giving a clean, reportable record of what was changed and why — ready for the client.


For solo lawyers & small firms

A whole book of business, on one screen.

Brief Forge holds every matter in a single sidebar — no per-seat sprawl, no partner-sized platform to administer. It was built for the lawyer who is also the firm.

  • A pipeline of all firm matters in one sidebar
  • Posture chips read at a glance across the book
  • Redline history that reports cleanly to clients

Set and built with Next.js · Tailwind · Framer Motion · TypeScript. Engineered by BuildspaceLabs for a boutique law firm under NDA.

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Put the first pass on the machine.

See Brief Forge run on a live contract, or tell us about the matters your firm handles most. We will show you the extraction, the scoring, and the redlines on a document you know.