AI is the engine. We make sure it knows where to go.
SimpleDocs pairs AI-powered contract tools with a dedicated Legal Engineering team that configures, optimises, and evolves your solution around how your team actually works.
Most legal AI tools hand you a platform and wish you luck. The result? Generic outputs, poor adoption, and a team that goes back to doing things manually. AI without your negotiation logic is just a drafting tool. The Legal Engineering Layer is what turns it into your negotiator.
Everything between the technology and the outcome.
Negotiation playbook build
We work with your lawyers and commercial teams to map your positions: preferred, fallback, and walk-away, across every clause that matters. The result is a codified version of the institutional knowledge that currently lives in the heads of your most experienced negotiators.
Custom prompt engineering
The quality of any AI output depends on the quality of the instruction. We design and refine the prompts that power SimpleDocs for your specific use cases, whether that’s first-pass risk assessment, redlining against policy, or producing summaries for non-legal stakeholders.
Workflow configuration
We configure SimpleDocs around your existing processes, not the other way around. Where we see opportunities to streamline, we advise, but never at the expense of what’s already working. Your workflows stay yours. They just get faster.
Process optimization
Our team identifies where small adjustments unlock significant efficiency gains and recommends those changes in a way that makes sense to the people living with them. We also know when to leave well alone. Not every process needs reinventing.
Change management & adoption
The best-configured tool is worthless if nobody uses it. We support adoption through hands-on training, feedback loops, and iterative refinement, building confidence in the tool and addressing the edge cases that surface in real-world use.
Ongoing tuning
We don’t disappear after implementation. Playbooks get sharper as they’re tested against real negotiations. Prompts are refined as edge cases emerge. The system evolves continuously because your legal engineering team stays with you.
From kickoff to live in weeks, not months.
Discovery
Build & configure
Launch & evolve
Legal engineers, not just technologists.
We’re deliberate about who we put in front of our customers. Our Legal Engineering team includes qualified lawyers because the work demands it.
Translating a negotiation position into a playbook requires legal judgment. Understanding why a particular clause formulation matters and when a seemingly minor wording change shifts risk allocation entirely, is legal work, even when the output is a configuration file rather than a contract.
That firsthand understanding of legal practice means we can speak your team’s language, anticipate their concerns, and build something they’ll actually trust.
“We know what it’s like to manage a high-volume contract queue. We know the friction points between legal and commercial teams. We know why lawyers resist change - and it’s usually not stubbornness.”
Built by lawyers, for lawyers
“Technologists can build the infrastructure. Lawyers can negotiate the deal. Legal engineers do both - and that’s what makes this layer indispensable.”
The intersection
The tools are only as good as what you teach them. Every legal team negotiates differently - different risk appetites, different commercial pressures, different red lines. The Legal Engineering Layer is where we take all of that nuance and turn it into something AI can actually execute on. Without it, you're leaving your best negotiation intelligence on the table.
Electra Japonas
Chief Product Officer & Head of Legal Engineering, SimpleDocs
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