The Pitch
You're a BizDev rep. A potential partner just emailed you an NDA. You don't have time for Legal's 2-week queue. You've got one simple question: “is there a non-compete clause in here?”
Saul's answer: a small team of AI specialists working as a law firm. Each one does what they're actually good at — no superstar trying to do everything alone, no junior pretending to be senior. The result: a plain-English answer with verbatim quotes from your contract, in under 30 seconds, with a paper trail you can take to Legal if you want a second opinion.
Here's how the firm runs.
★ The Team ★
Three brains. Three jobs. Nobody steps on each other's toes.
Sr. Counsel
The judgement.Saul's the legal brain. He decides what clauses matter for any given question, and he checks the team's work at the end to make sure nothing got missed and every quote is real. He's a legal-domain fine-tune — trained specifically on legal text, so he spots adjacent clauses (non-solicitation, residuals, restraint of trade) that a generalist would miss.
The Paralegal
The legwork.Fast, cheap, accurate at structured tasks. Triages whether the question is even ours to answer (“should I sign this?” — nope, that's real-Legal's job). Then dives into the actual contract and pulls out verbatim clauses, page by page, against Saul's checklist. Doesn't editorialise — just reports what's on the page.
The Copywriter
The voice.Sonnet doesn't read your contract directly — that would risk hallucinations. It only sees the verified findings the Paralegal pulled and Saul cleared. Its job is to turn legal findings into an answer your BizDev colleague can actually understand, with the relevant quotes and page citations baked in.
★ The Flow ★
From your question to Saul's verdict, in five steps.
Scope Check
Is this question even ours to answer? If you're asking 'is there a non-compete?' we proceed. If you're asking 'should I sign this?' we politely tell you to call your actual lawyer. Crucial: we never even open the PDF for out-of-scope questions. Privacy by design.
Saul Briefs the Team
Saul thinks about your question and writes a checklist of clause types to verify. For 'non-compete' he doesn't just say 'check non-compete' — he adds non-solicitation, restraint of trade, IP assignment, residuals. The clauses that hide the same restrictions in different language.
Pull the Clauses
The Paralegal opens the PDF, page by page, and looks for each clause on Saul's checklist. Reports back with verbatim quotes (no paraphrasing) and page numbers. Marks anything missing as 'Not present' — the absence is itself a finding.
Saul Reviews the Work
Saul double-checks two things: (1) did the Paralegal actually find what they say they found? Every quote has to appear verbatim in the contract. (2) Did they cover every checklist item? Silent omissions are failures. If anything's off, the Paralegal gets one shot to fix it. If still off — we punt to a real lawyer.
Draft the Letter
Once Saul signs off on the findings, the Copywriter writes the answer. Plain English. Direct. With the verbatim quotes and page references baked in. They never read the contract directly — only the verified findings. That's how you keep hallucinations out of the final answer.
★ Why this works (and why other AIs don't)
Different brains for different jobs.
Saul (Mistral-family) does the thinking. Sonnet (Anthropic family) does the talking. They never grade each other's work the way ChatGPT grades ChatGPT — that's how mistakes get past you. Two different model families means two different sets of blind spots, so when both agree the answer is grounded, the confidence is real.
“Not present” is a real answer.
If your NDA doesn't have a non-compete, Saul says so plainly. We don't make stuff up to look smart. Silent omissions are treated as failures by the Critic step.
The Copywriter never reads your contract.
The fastest way to hallucinate a clause is to let the writer read the source. Sonnet only sees verified findings. It literally cannot invent a quote — the only quotes it has are the ones the Paralegal extracted and Saul cleared.
When in doubt, we punt.
Saul rejects an answer twice in a row? We escalate to a real lawyer. The whole architecture is designed to fail toward “send to Legal”, never toward “ship a confidently-wrong answer.” Wrong escalations are annoying. Wrong answers get deals lost.