You can paste a contract into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. The AI will read it. But using a general chatbot for legal review creates a workflow problem: you have to sit there, prompt, chat, refine, and watch it work, every.single.time.
General AI tools force you to keep the browser window open. If you close the tab, the generation stops. If you walk away, the session might time out. Analyzing a 40-page contract takes time, and staring at a blinking cursor prevents you from doing other work.
Teams that review contracts at companies need a process built for busy workers; contracts don't get reviewed in one shot. This is why goHeather, purpose-built contract review software, is shifting to background processing today.
A modern contract review tool works asynchronously. goHeather now runs all contract reviews entirely in the background.
The process is simple:
You do not need to keep the tab open. You do not need to chat or prompt. The AI processes the document on our servers. You can upload a large contract, go to a meeting or go to sleep, and come back to a finished AI contract review in your inbox or in your goHeather dashboard.
Fixing the waiting problem is only half the battle. You also need readable output.
We upgraded the goHeather AI to solve the "wall of text" problem. The system still tries to catch every issue in a contract, but it groups them intelligently. Instead of 400 repetitive flags, you get a concise, manageable list of insights. We also organized these insights under foldable headings. You can easily collapse sections you do not care about and scan the document to find exactly what you need.
Jeff Dutton is a lawyer who advises on technology, corporate, privacy, commercial, employment and real estate law.
Jeff founded his own small law firm, Dutton Law, in 2016 (and merged it with a larger firm in 2019). Before that, Jeff was a prosecutor and a commercial law lawyer at a national boutique law firm.
Jeffrey is a frequent lecturer on legal matters and has been published in newspapers and trade journals. In addition, Jeff was the editor and co-author of a leading employment law text for lawyers for many years.
Education:
Western University, BA (2009)
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, JD (2012)
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