Open-sourcing legal templates to make legal documents free for 400m small businesses around the world. Git enabled version control and smarter features for input fields and clause selection. AI Co-Pilot in the works.
Hey ProductHunt community,
I'd love to hear what you think about GitLaw.
GitLaw offers free, open-source legal templates with Git-powered collaboration and version control.
We have over 300 documents today and hope to receive many more. Employment contracts, NDAs, SaaS agreements, Privacy Policies etc - all free.
Docs exist - why GitLaw?
- Existing templates are often low quality and cost money.
- Using Git, we’re enabling the community to build "open standards" together.
- Smart input fields that automatically fill in the contract fields and simple on/off or variant selection for clauses makes it simple to customize and use templates on GitLaw
- A private workspace for your documents (we’ve got a lot more stuff to build here)
Isn’t AI coming to eat legal?
- Well, yes. People already use tools like ChatGPT to generate docs. But the general consensus is that while LLMs are amazing - trusted templates are a much more reliable base.
- AI presents a significant opportunity to help people *use* legal templates - but a template repository is a helpful foundation. We believe the time is right for GitLaw to exist.
- Our plan is to add a Co-Pilot in the future - an AI chatbot to act as a quasi paralegal to help summarize or adapt documents. We also think AI agents can help make legal documents much faster/easier to create / review / sign.
How is GitLaw going to make money?
- Everything we have will remain free.
- Once server costs start to add up we might add a paid option for additional features - for example - the latest LLM models for a small monthly fee and referring lawyers through a marketplace when a human is needed.
We’ve built this as a fun side project with no funding.
@nickholzherr looking awesome, very impressed. I’d love to be able to upload existing contracts and have it translate from lawyer talk to human language, pulling out key consideration points
@ihuzaifashoukat thanks Huzaifa! Similar to how GitHub works with keeping open-source projects up to date - a community of lawyers / users around the world who maintain documents in their sector/region.
AI Agents that are responsible for different regions/sectors of law might also be able to help.. but. I think the jury is out on whether that will work well.
@nickholzherr really great product idea and I love the mission.
I am curious about a few things - are these documents regionally biased? Ie: geared at US / Canadian / International remote employees?
Also - let's presume I already have legal docs (Privacy policy) but I want to cross reference it with other docs or upload and have it reviewed against the docs you've got in the repo - is the a feasible use case with the current build?
@dzaitzow Thank you Daniel!
Yes, documents are regionally based. We have a field called "Jurisdiction" where you can filter what contracts you see. Today we have mainly US and UK contracts.
As the community / user base grows - I expect the # of jurisdictions that we have good coverage in to grow as well. We have some global coverage but it's more patchy outside the US and UK.
For cross referencing - that's absolutely where this is going - but it doesn't support that today. We're planning things like:
- automatically created "playbooks" based on contracts you've uploaded and then help you apply those to new documents you're reviewing.
- automatically detect issues with contracts in your repositories based on trends in documents uploaded by others
- detecting negotiation trends and helping you negotiate your contracts based on what's market standard on the platform.
The more users we have the more we can do. Today is step 1 :)
@dzaitzow Hey Daniel, we'll keep signed up users updated - so if you sign up you'll get updates when we have them. Don't have a separate mailing list currently.
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