AI is a sensible place to start — a cleaner first draft than most templates, in minutes. But a confident-sounding document is not the same as a sound one, and AI produces the most confident-sounding documents ever written. Send me the draft; a barrister of twenty years’ call tells you what is sound, what is wrong, and what is missing. You pay for the check, not the drafting.
A fixed price per check — from £450, and it comes off the redraft if you go on to fix it.
AI drafts rarely look wrong. These are the things that read perfectly and fail on the day they matter.
A statute, notice period or case that does not exist — in prose identical to the real thing.
US concepts in English words — “work made for hire,” at-will employment, notarisation that does nothing here.
A covenant too wide to enforce, an exclusion that consumer law strikes out, a penalty clause.
The costliest failure is the clause that is not there — the one your deal needed and the generic draft omitted.
A will witnessed wrongly, a deed unsigned, an LPA never registered. No drafting survives invalid execution.
Read the full guide: Using AI for legal drafting →
A founder asked an AI for a consultancy agreement and received, among forty tidy clauses, this one on intellectual property. It looks like boilerplate. It contains three problems that would each surface at the worst moment — a sale or investment round, when the buyer’s lawyers ask who owns the code.
The corrected clause transfers the rights on signing rather than promising to transfer them later; the fee already agreed is the consideration; only the moral rights are waived; and the duty to sign anything further needed to perfect the transfer is imposed on the consultant, not waived.
Paste or attach it, with one line on what it is for. Anonymise anything sensitive.
Agreed before any work begins — the check, not a full redraft, so it costs far less.
Sound, wrong, or missing — with corrected wording where it matters, reviewed personally.
A fixed price agreed before any work begins — the check, not a full redraft, so it costs far less. Three ways to take it:
One AI-drafted document, read and reported on — sound, wrong, or missing.
Up to five related documents — the set behind a hire, a raise or a launch, checked together.
Ask me to redraft what the review finds and whatever you paid for the review comes off the drafting fee.
All indicative and plus VAT; the full list is on the pricing page.
Tell me what the document is and paste it in, or just leave your details and I’ll reply with how to send it securely. No obligation; this creates no retainer.