Contract Drafting Agent
The Contract Drafting Agent produces first drafts of service, supply, SaaS, consulting and loan agreements from a term sheet or instruction, using your precedents and clause library. It applies your house style, numbering and defined terms, and includes the South African law provisions each agreement type needs, giving your attorneys a solid draft to refine rather than a blank page.
Ideal forCommercial attorneys
The difference
From 4-8 hours per first draft to 45-90 minutes
Clients and business units receive first drafts sooner, and attorneys spend their time on judgement rather than assembly.
Done by hand
4-8 hours per first draft
With the Vanine agent
45-90 minutes
Time returned to your team
80%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
Your precedents, not a generic template
Drafts are assembled from the clauses your firm or company has already approved, so they reflect your positions and your standard of drafting.
Less time on mechanical drafting
Filling in parties, defined terms, schedules and cross-references is slow work. The agent does it in minutes and your attorneys focus on the commercial and legal judgement.
Local law included from the start
POPIA operator clauses, CPA considerations, electronic signature wording and exchange control flags are built in where relevant, instead of being added late.
Capabilities
From term sheet to a house-style first draft, ready for your review.
Built for commercial attorneys, candidate attorneys, in-house legal teams and contract managers at South African law firms and corporates.
Term sheet extraction
Reads the term sheet, email instruction or file note and captures parties, pricing, term, service levels, deliverables and special conditions.
Precedent and clause assembly
Selects the right precedent and approved clauses from your library, with fallback wording where the deal needs a different position.
House style and consistency
Applies your Word styles, numbering and defined terms, and checks cross-references and schedules so the draft reads as your own work.
POPIA and SaaS provisions
Adds operator obligations under section 21, security safeguards, breach notification and cross-border transfer terms under section 72 for SaaS and data services.
Loan agreement checks
Flags where the National Credit Act may apply to a loan and where exchange control approval may be needed for a lender or borrower outside South Africa.
Drafting notes for the reviewer
Produces a short cover note listing assumptions, open points and clauses that need the attorney's attention before the draft goes out.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
The responsible attorney reviews and finalises the draft and gives the legal advice before it is sent to the client or counterparty.
Connect the places your precedents already live.
Term sheets and instructions from Outlook or Teams, and precedents and clause libraries from iManage, NetDocuments or SharePoint. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Microsoft Word (house style templates)
- Copilot Studio
- iManage and NetDocuments
- LegalSuite and GhostPractice
- DocuSign and Adobe Sign
Runs in Word, Teams or OpenAI Frontier on request, using the models your organisation approves.
A first draft in your Word house style with a drafting note, saved to the matter file.
Step by step
- 01
An attorney shares the term sheet or instruction with the agent.
- 02
The agent extracts the deal terms and selects the matching precedent.
- 03
It assembles the agreement from approved clauses in your house style.
- 04
It adds SA-specific provisions and a drafting note of open points.
- 05
The attorney reviews, refines and approves the draft for issue.
Deployment
Runs inside the tools your team already uses
The same agent and the same cited output, delivered three ways: through the AI assistant you have rolled out, on a model you host yourself, or inside your own software.
In the frontier assistant you already pay for
We publish the agent as an MCP server. Add it as a connector and your team calls it from the chat they use every day, with no new tool to learn.
"Pull the commercial terms from the term sheet"
- agreement
- SaaS subscription
- precedent
- Clause library v9
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your precedents never leave your network, which keeps POPIA and data residency straightforward.
- Llama
- Mistral
- Ollama
- or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Inside your own software
Trigger a run from your own workflows, and push the finished output into your ERP, GRC or reporting systems. We build the integration with your team.
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Batch jobs
- Embeddable review panel
Governed the same way, every route
Whichever way your team reaches the agent, identity, permissions and audit stay with your existing controls.
- Single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace
- Reads only the documents each user is already allowed to open
- Every tool call written to an audit log you can export
How we deliver it
One agent, three ways to hold it
Start where your team already works, then take it as far into your systems as the value justifies.
DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your precedents stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your precedents. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR PRECEDENTS NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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