ACO-46 Author

First drafts of commercial agreements

Supply the instructions, the agreed commercial points and your own precedent, and take back a full-length draft covering operative clauses, definitions, boilerplate and schedules, set out in your firm's numbering and house style for a fee earner to review, complete and amend.

Heads of terms turned into a working draft

Hand over a term sheet or the email trail of what was agreed and have it expanded into a structured agreement. Ask it to mark the points it cannot resolve from the material you supplied, and check the draft on review for anything that was not in the instructions.

Policies, procedures and manuals

Draft data protection policies, whistleblowing and AML procedures, and staff handbooks for England & Wales in a single voice, working to one set of defined terms and one cross-referencing scheme that the reviewer checks before the document is adopted.

Client care and engagement documents

Produce client care letters, terms of business and scope schedules for different matter types from one set of firm-wide instructions, so each is drafted from the same approved wording and the set can be checked against it on review.

Advice notes and file notes from raw material

Turn attendance notes, a chronology and a fee earner's rough working into a structured note setting out issues, options, open questions and next steps, ready for the supervising solicitor to check, complete with the advice and sign off.

Schedules, annexes and appendices

Draft the parts usually left until last — definitions schedules, service descriptions, data processing particulars, charges and transition plans — working from the operative clauses that refer to them, for checking against those clauses on review.

Recasting a document for a different reader

Take a completed agreement and draw from it a plain-English summary for a lay client, a short board note, or a lighter-touch version for a small supplier. A fee earner checks each version against the original before it is sent.

Building and maintaining a precedent bank

Draft new precedents and paired variants from an existing one — supplier-side and customer-side, long form and short form — with drafting notes and optional wording sitting alongside each clause for the precedent owner to approve.

Tender and bid responses

Draft long narrative answers to PQQ and ITT questions from your policies, case studies and earlier submissions. Ask it to follow the buyer's question order and to work to the stated word counts, and check the counts yourself before you submit.

Company policies and staff handbooks

Produce a whole handbook or a single policy — disciplinary, grievance, flexible working, expenses — written for your size and sector, for your HR adviser or employment solicitor to approve before it is issued.

Proposals, statements of work and scoping documents

Turn a discovery call and a price sheet into a client-ready proposal setting out deliverables, assumptions, exclusions and a payment schedule drawn from the contract behind it, for checking against that contract before the proposal goes out.

Reports and board papers

Draft the narrative around your numbers: management commentary, project and programme updates, risk registers written up as prose, and papers that close with a clear recommendation.

Process manuals and training material

Write standard operating procedures, onboarding guides and role handbooks from a subject expert's notes or a walkthrough transcript, working to one structure across every department.

Long-form content for the business

Draft guides, white papers, help-centre articles and newsletter series from your own material, working to one voice across a whole set rather than piece by piece.

Funding and grant applications

Draft the applications that ask for long written answers, reusing an approved description of the business and shaping it to each funder's criteria and stated limits.

Document packs that travel together

Assemble the cover letter, terms, order form, service description and FAQ as one set, drafting each from the same written statement of the commercial terms and reading the set against it before it goes out.

A firm needs supplier-side and customer-side versions of its services agreement, plus a matching short-form order form, all in house style.

Working from one master precedent, draft the customer-side version, then the supplier-side version, then the order form that refers to both, giving it one set of defined terms and one numbering scheme to draft to across all three. Each version goes to a qualified reviewer, who checks the drafting and the cross-references before it is issued.

An SME has two days to answer a twenty-question public-sector tender with 500-word limits on each answer.

Feed in the question set, your policies and two previous submissions, and draft the answers question by question, asking it to work to the stated limits. Then ask it to re-read the set and point out where figures, certifications and dates are described differently between answers. The bid owner checks the word counts and verifies every factual claim before submission — the engine writes from what you give it, it does not confirm that any of it is true or current.

A solicitor has a bundle of attendance notes and needs a structured note for the client.

Draft a note with a chronology, the issues, the options and the questions still outstanding, working from the material supplied and asking it to mark the points it cannot resolve. The solicitor then edits it, checks it for anything that was not in the notes, adds the advice and takes responsibility for what is sent.

Best for

• Documents that run to many pages and have to hang together as one piece of work
• Teams drafting from their own precedents, policies and house style
• Families of related documents that all have to say the same thing
• Getting from raw notes and instructions to a reviewable first draft
• England & Wales work where a qualified person reviews before anything is used

Not the tool for

• Quick one-line answers and lookups — a conversational engine suits that better
• Establishing what the law currently says: it drafts from the material you give it, not from a legal research source
• Deciding whether a clause or a negotiating position is acceptable — that judgement sits with the reviewing solicitor
• Anything that goes out unreviewed: every draft needs a qualified person to check it first