Reviewing legal contracts before you sign

Most contracts a non-lawyer signs are 20–80 pages of dense, defined-term text. The questions you actually have ("can they cancel without cause?" "is my IP assigned?") are buried across three sections that reference each other. That's exactly what a grounded AI is good at.

The problem

You skim. You miss the autorenewal. You miss the indemnity carve-out. By the time legal pushes back, the deal's already moving and the change feels expensive. Generic AI summarizers help, but they paraphrase — they don't tell you which clause says what, which is the only thing your counterparty will care about in the eventual dispute.

How SeekFiles AI helps

• Clause-level citations — every answer links to the exact paragraph and page.
• Definition-aware retrieval — defined terms ("Confidential Information," "Affiliate") get tracked across sections.
• Multilingual — important when the deed is in one language and your reviewer works in another.
• Refuses to invent — if the contract is silent on a question, the answer says so.

A workflow that works

1. Upload the contract (and any side letters, exhibits, or amendments).
2. Create an assistant scoped to those files only.
3. Ask the questions that matter: termination, IP ownership, indemnity caps, governing law, autorenewal, force majeure. Each answer comes with the exact clause.
4. Export your notes to share with counsel — with the clause text quoted inline.

What to upload

• The main agreement (MSA, SOW, NDA, employment, lease)
• Schedules, exhibits, addenda
• Prior versions (track-changes PDFs)
• Counterparty's standard terms if relevant

Reviewing in the AI is not a substitute for a lawyer — but it gets you to a much smarter lawyer conversation.