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Clarilis AI Draft

When it comes to AI
drafting,  context 
 is everything 

AI Draft is a drafting agent that already knows your matter. It drafts from the deal data in Clarilis, applies drafting frameworks built by our knowledge lawyers for your practice area, and works in your firm's house style. So your lawyers start reviewing refined drafting, not rebuilding.

It knows the deal, it knows how documents like this should be drafted, and it knows how to draft them. The result is a first draft you can review, not one you have to reverse-engineer.
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What AI Draft knows before you write a word

  • Your matter

    A highly structured view of your matter from the Clarilis data model.

  • How to draft

    Drafting knowledge for your specific practice area, codified by our professional support lawyers.

  • Your associated documents

    All of the drafts Clarilis has already prepared for your matter.

  • Your house style

    All documents are drafted in your preferred house style.

  • No need for prompt engineering with the Clarilis approach. Let Clarilis do the heavy lifting.

Why context matters

Everyone has access to the latest language models from the frontier labs. Your drafting output when using these models is only as good as the context you provide.

The model isn't the differentiator. What matters is what the tool knows before it starts. General-purpose tools need to be told about your matter, then infer how your document should be drafted. Both hand the work back to the lawyer: once as data entry, and again as a full review from first principles.

10+

years in legal drafting

Context and expertise are in Clarilis' DNA. We've spent more than a decade applying technology to legal drafting. Leverage our expertise.

SEE IT IN ACTION

Watch AI Draft at work

See how AI Draft uses the matter context in your Clarilis questionnaire to draft definitions, clauses, schedules and whole documents in your house style.

THE PROBLEM

Why general-purpose AI tools struggle with drafting

It isn't the model. It's everything the model doesn't know.

Ask a general-purpose AI tool to draft a transaction document and it will run into two problems:

PROBLEM ONE

It doesn't know the matter

Before it can draft anything, a general-purpose AI tool has to work out what it's dealing with: the practice area, the type of transaction, the parties, the structure. That information exists, but it's scattered across documents, emails and instructions.

So either the user curates it manually, or the tool assembles its own version and hopes for the best.

PROBLEM TWO

It doesn't know how to draft

Even given the right facts, a general-purpose AI tool still has to decide what to do with them. Large language models hold a remarkable amount of latent legal knowledge, but no framework for deciding how a particular document should be drafted in a particular situation.

Instead, they rely on inference. The result reads plausibly but, on careful review, is wrong in subtle ways.
Both problems hand the work back to the lawyer. One as data entry, the other as a full first-principles review.

THE DIFFERENCE

AI Draft compared with general-purpose AI tools

The same underlying models, very different starting points: extraction, inference and prompting on one side; structured data, codified expertise and targeted review on the other.
Feature General-purpose AI Clarilis AI Draft
Matter data Extracted from documents, every time Read directly from structured questionnaire data
Drafting knowledge Latent and general; inferred per request Codified conventions per practice area, built by knowledge lawyers
Terminology Inferred from context Follows the structure already modelled in the automation
House style Prompted for, or applied afterwards Applied as it drafts
What the lawyer needs to learn Prompt engineering and iteration Nothing new: the expertise sits in the platform
Supervision Full first-principles review required Targeted review against an explicit framework

SECURITY BY DESIGN

The same rigour we apply to the whole platform

The team at Clarilis is dedicated to protecting the security and privacy of our customers' data. Our whole platform has been built with a security-first approach, and we apply the same rigour to Clarilis AI Draft.

Signatory to the Litig AI Transparency Charter

Litig ShieldReaffirming our commitment to the safe, ethical and transparent adoption of AI in the legal sector. The Charter sets out clear commitments for organisations developing and providing legal AI, promoting responsible innovation while safeguarding ethical and professional standards.
data hosting

Data Hosting

The Clarilis solution is hosted in your region using industry-leading cloud infrastructure provided by AWS and Microsoft Azure
secure environments

Secure Environments

ISO 27001 and regular penetration testing
gdpr

GDPR

Compliance with GDPR standards
Enterprise level security-1

Enterprise level security

Encryption in transit and at rest, user activity storage and reporting
User security / contro

User security / control

Integration with your SSO mechanism gives you complete control
data retention

Zero data retention for AI Processing

Complete control over platform storage and deletion of data
No foundation model training

No AI model training

No AI models are trained using your data

HR Security

Human resource security

All Clarilis staff are subject to criminal record (DBS), eligibility and reference validation checks

Drafting transparency

AI-generated content is highlighted once inserted into your Word documents, so you're always clear on its source.

Smart integration

AI Draft suggests the right placement for new content within your draft documents, and you stay in control.

Seamless formatting

As with all Clarilis documents, content is formatted in your firm's house style.

From the blog

How Clarilis AI Draft is closing the gap in legal drafting

Combining our automation engine with generative AI tuned for each practice area to close the gap between instruction and draft.

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Can't find what you're looking for? Get in touch and we'll be happy to help.

General FAQs

What is Clarilis?

Clarilis is the combination of an intelligent drafting platform, designed to handle complex automation, and a lawyer-led managed service. Clarilis delivers transformational outcomes for law firms and leading organisations globally, enabling them to improve margin, increase capacity, provide superior client service, aid recruitment and retention, and mitigate risk.

Clarilis is trusted by transactional lawyers to draft complex documentation across a range of practice areas such as banking, corporate, real estate and private client.

What is AI Draft?

Clarilis AI Draft integrates generative AI into the Clarilis platform, focusing on augmenting - not replacing - traditional document automation. This approach recognises that deterministic, template-based automation remains the gold standard for legal drafting, however, there are instances where generative AI can enhance this process – to cover less common scenarios and novel, deal-specific drafting.

AI Draft

What makes AI Draft different from ChatGPT, Copilot and legal specific drafting tools?

Context and built in expertise. We all have access to the same powerful models. General-purpose tools have to be told about the matter and then infer how the document should be drafted. AI Draft reads the matter from your Clarilis questionnaire, applies a drafting framework built by our knowledge lawyers, and then drafts in your house style, directly into your documents. No prompt engineering required. 

 

Does AI Draft replace automation?

No. Automated templates remain the gold standard for consistent, carefully reviewed drafting. AI Draft builds on them, using the same matter data and expertise to extend into content and documents that are too variable to template. 

How does AI Draft fit into the automation workflow?

Complete the Clarilis questionnaire as usual. That structured record of the matter becomes the context AI Draft works from, so you can generate bespoke content or additional documents without re-keying anything. 

What can AI Draft help me with?

Drafting, such as:

  • Defined terms
  • Clauses
  • Schedules
  • Ancillary documents (such as board minutes and resolutions)
  • Emails and letters (such as client correspondence or notices)
Where does AI Draft content come from?

We use a range of models depending on the task. Currently we prefer OpenAI's models, hosted in Azure but we're always evaluating the state of the art. What sets AI Draft apart is what surrounds the model: structured matter data and drafting frameworks from our in-house knowledge lawyers. 

Will my data or inputs be used to train the model?
No. Neither user inputs nor AI responses are used to train any AI model. 
Does AI Draft content need review?
Yes. AI content is new and hasn't been reviewed in advance like automated drafting. Always treat it as a first draft. All AI content within documents generated by Clarilis is highlighted, and a notice placed at the top of the relevant document flagging that this content needs additional review. 
My firm doesn't allow generative AI tools. Can I still use Clarilis automation?
Yes. AI Draft can be disabled in an automation. 

Security FAQs

Is it secure?

Yes, Clarilis is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), is ISO 27001 certified by the British Standards Institute (BSI), and is used by the largest law firms on the planet, having passed their rigorous Infosec processes. (Click here to see some of our customers).

Clarilis is committed to the responsible use​ of AI. Clarilis AI Draft is deployed on a "zero data retention" basis, and no AI models are trained using customer data.

You can read more about our security here.

Do I need to install anything to use Clarilis?

No, there are no plugins or software required, if you can access the internet via a browser, you can use Clarilis. There is nothing to set up and no coding required.

Once you have created a draft document using Clarilis, you can simply download the resulting Word or pdf documents directly onto your laptop/PC. From there, you can save them to your DMS, in your chosen folder.

Will it work with Single Sign On ("SSO")?

Yes, Clarilis will help you set it up with your firm’s SSO system.

Give your AI Drafting the context it needs

See how your matter, our drafting expertise and your house style come together in a first draft you can review with confidence. 
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