A first draft from your precedents, reviewed before it reaches you.
Blue works alongside the attorneys in a law firm. It prepares drafts and redlines from the firm’s own precedents, has each one independently reviewed, and returns it as work product for an attorney to read and decide on.
12. Term and Termination
12.2 Either party may terminate this Agreement for convenience upon thirty (30) sixty (60) days’ prior written notice to the other party, delivered in accordance with Section 15.
An example redline, made as tracked changes in the original document.
Three roles, as in a well-run practice
Three separate agents scope, draft and review, the way a firm divides the same work between colleagues.
Attorney
Hands over the work by email, or from the matter itself.
Blue
Clarifies the scope and proposes a short plan for approval.
Quill
Prepares the draft from the firm’s forms and house style.
Argus
Checks the draft against the plan and verifies each citation.
Attorney
Receives the document, with its history, for review.
If the review raises a concern, the draft returns to the drafter before it reaches the attorney.
Everything for a matter in one place
Blue comes with the CRM a practice needs around it. Clients, matters, tasks and deadlines sit beside the documents they belong to.
Documents with a history
Revisions, redlines, comparisons and comments attached to the passages they concern.
Deadlines that announce themselves
The responsible attorney is reminded ahead of time, with an offer to make a start.
Work that arrives by email
Instructions and attachments sent by email are filed to the right matter.
- Plan approved by attorney Mon
- First draft from firm template Mon
- Independent review complete Tue
- Attorney review Today
- Counterparty response due Fri
The firm’s work, knowledge and ways of working
Four parts of the CRM hold what Blue needs to work the way the firm works.
Document revisions
Every version of every document is kept, and can be compared or restored.
- Revision 4Quill · redline of the counterparty’s draftCurrent
- Revision 3Attorney · edits to clause 12Tue
- Revision 2Quill · first draft from the firm’s templateMon
- Revision 1Uploaded · counterparty paperMon
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The firm’s knowledge as connected articles, so related guidance is one step away.
Playbooks
How the firm handles each type of matter, written down once and followed every time.
- Services agreement
- Confidentiality agreement
- Seed financing
- Employment offer
Agent directives
Each agent’s process, laid out step by step, and taught in plain language.
- Understand the instruction all work
- Ask up to two questions
- Write the plan house style
- Hand to the drafter
Blue prepares. The attorney decides.
Blue takes care of
- Intake and scoping of new work
- First drafts from the firm’s precedents
- Redlines made as tracked changes
- An independent review of every draft
Attorneys look after
- Approving the plan before drafting begins
- Legal judgment and advice
- The final review of every document
- The client relationship
Rules the system enforces
Separate drafter and reviewer
The agent that writes a document cannot approve it. The system enforces that separation.
Your documents, intact
Edits that would damage a document’s text, formatting or formulas are stopped before they happen.
Where your data sits
On the firm’s own systems or on infrastructure Valaren runs, depending on the engagement. Each firm’s matters are kept separate from any other’s.
Work product, for your review
Blue does not give legal advice. Every document returns to an attorney.
Blue works from your precedents, fits into the Word and email your lawyers already use, and runs on your firm’s own systems or on infrastructure Valaren manages, depending on the engagement.
Show us the agreement your firm drafts most.
Thirty minutes with a founder. We will ask where your precedents live, who reviews what, and where your data would sit, and tell you plainly whether Blue fits.
- You walk us through the process and the system behind it.
- We tell you plainly whether an agent is the right fix.
- If it is, we outline what we would build and what it would take from your team.