Why not just use a chatbot?

BeforeJD^™ loads a playbook built for the exact kind of contract you upload. A freelance agreement is scrutinized for ownership traps and missing kill-fee protection. A commercial lease is checked for reconciliation rights and holdover penalties. An employment offer triggers a non-compete review calibrated to the signer’s state.

Each playbook also reaches for the provisions that standard checklists skip, like force majeure, survival, change of control, and setoff. The result is a thorough first read, delivered in minutes, that gives you or your attorney a head start.

A second reader checks every read before it reaches your report, and every quotation is checked against the contract text. Words we cannot find there are never shown as the contract's words: we remove them, or mark them as our reading, not the exact wording.

BeforeJD returns a structured report with findings ranked by severity. Red flags could cause real financial or legal harm. Yellow flags deserve attention or negotiation. Green flags confirm the protections already working in your favor.

Every finding quotes the exact clause, so you know precisely where the issue lives. For the flags worth pushing back on, BeforeJD drafts the replacement language itself and returns a marked-up copy of your contract, with tracked changes, clause by clause. The marked-up copy arrives with your report email, alongside a ready-to-send negotiation email. The whole report exports to a clean document, ready to share with your attorney or your team.

BeforeJD applies the same rules to every read of the same type of contract. A regression check runs the read against a locked public benchmark of real commercial contracts after every update, confirming that risks caught before are still caught. Every change must clear that check before it ships.

Two reads of the same contract can differ in wording and, at times, in how a finding is rated. We measure that variation, and a change to the models behind the read ships only when the benchmark holds.

Your contract is never used to train a model. The analytics services our site uses are listed on our Trust page.

Documents are encrypted in transit and at rest. The file you upload for a read is deleted seven days after the read, and a backup copy is kept for disaster recovery, as our Trust page explains. The servers that run BeforeJD and the database that holds your files are in Oregon, and our Trust page lists every service that processes a contract.

The Contract Assistant is a live, spoken conversation about your contract. It answers only from the finished report on your document, and every answer points back to a line on your page. Ask what the non-compete actually restricts, or what to say when the other side pushes back, and hear it explained plainly, in your report and in the iPhone app.

Every conversation is saved. Saved conversations open from the assistant, each with a written summary of what was asked and answered, so the advice you heard is still there when you sit down to negotiate.