How General Counsels Speed Contract Review by 70%

As a General Counsel (GC) at a small or mid-sized business (SMB) or mid-market company, you face a constant paradox: contracts are the engine of your business, yet managing them consumes a disproportionate amount of your time and budget. Corporate counsels report that contract-related tasks represent at least half of their daily work, with that effort frequently being time-consuming and inefficient.

Imagine reclaiming the repetitive parts of that workload—tasks like initial drafting, clause comparison, and first-pass risk detection—to focus purely on high-value legal strategy and negotiation. This is the opportunity specialized legal AI offers, allowing you to effectively offload the repetitive 60–70 percent of the lawyer's workload.

For GCs managing high contract volumes with flat or decreasing budgets, this shift is not just about convenience; it’s about protecting the business while controlling costs.

The SMB Challenge: Professional-Grade Review, SMB Price Tag

Historically, the advanced AI tools that deliver this kind of efficiency were designed exclusively for Big Law and large enterprises, requiring expensive contracts and custom implementation. This left SMBs, small firms, and mid-market companies largely underserved and inefficient.

goHeather was purpose-built by lawyers turned engineers to close this critical gap. We bring fast, affordable AI contract workflows and enterprisel-grade AI legal tech directly to the SMB market at a fraction of the traditional cost.

Our platform focuses on what SMB GCs need most: speed, cost savings, and the ability to enforce internal standards across numerous agreements.

1. Radical Speed and Cost Reduction

Manual contract review can take a lawyer hours or even days. With goHeather AI, analysis can be accelerated, transforming processes that might take weeks into minutes.

• Instant Analysis: Your employment contracts, vendor agreements, or NDAs can be analyzed and triaged instantly.
• Massive Cost Savings: Automating routine reviews reduces labor and cuts legal costs, which is particularly impactful for companies without the budget for a large internal legal team.
• Faster Deal Cycles: Accelerating review time contributes directly to speeding up negotiation and redlining.

2. Control, Consistency, and Compliance with Playbooks

The value of AI goes beyond raw speed; it delivers consistency by eliminating the risk of human error or fatigue when reviewing dense documents.

goHeather provides GCs with indispensable tools for governance and standardization: Playbooks.

• Enforce Standards: Playbooks are sets of rules used to review contracts against your company's predefined standards. The AI checks incoming documents against these rules, flagging deviations instantly.
• Easy Customization: You can create self-serve customizable Playbooks, or simply upload one of your existing "gold standard" contracts and let our AI Playbook Generation feature extract key provisions and build a ready-to-run rule set instantly.
• Jurisdictional Awareness: The platform is lawyer-trained AI that is localized to your jurisdiction and knows which side of the contract you represent, tailoring its insights to your specific needs.

3. Integrated Workflow: Review Where You Work

goHeather is designed to fit seamlessly into existing legal workflows. Our platform supports document review via the web app for PDF files and, crucially, offers a Microsoft Word Add-In.

With the Word Add-In, you can:

• Flag risky clauses and get plain English explanations directly in Word.
• Apply AI and Playbook suggested redlines with a single click.
• Use the lawyer-trained AI chat function to draft new clauses, refine language, or clarify ambiguous provisions using the full context of your document.

The Final Check: Why Human Oversight Is Non-Negotiable

While AI can handle the triage and extract data from contracts, it is essential to remember that these tools are intended to be a first pass, collaborative assistant, not a replacement for a human lawyer.

goHeather is designed to augment your expertise, allowing you to accomplish more work with less effort—the legal equivalent of moving from walking to an eBike.

We stress this commitment to human judgment:

• goHeather is a legal contracts AI, not a lawyer. It provides legal information, not legal advice.
• Even specialized legal AI tools utilize methods like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) intended to reduce the generation of false information (hallucinations), but empirical analysis shows that hallucinations persist.
• Therefore, verification and human oversight are always crucial. Complex legal judgment, ethical decision-making, and strategic negotiation remain uniquely human elements of legal practice that AI cannot replicate.

By directing goHeather to handle the high-volume, repetitive tasks, you free your expertise to focus on the strategic legal analysis that truly delivers value to your SMB.

Ready to accelerate your contract review, enforce company policy, and reduce internal/external legal spend?

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