In simple English
This tool helps you write, review, and sign business contracts using artificial intelligence. It keeps all your sensitive legal documents safe on your own computer or server rather than a company's cloud storage. You can search across every contract you have ever signed by asking plain questions. It costs nothing to download and run, but you need your own paid account with an artificial intelligence provider like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to power the chat features. Setting it up takes some technical knowledge and a few minutes of patience.
What it is
An open-source contract lifecycle management platform with built-in artificial intelligence agents for drafting, redlining, and portfolio search. It combines a React frontend, a Node.js API, and a Python backend running behind Docker containers.
What it is good for
Solo founders and small business owners who want to review contracts and track obligations without paying thousands of dollars for enterprise legal software or leaking confidential data to third-party cloud services.
- Keeps all your confidential contracts private on your own hardware.
- Lets you search your entire document history with normal questions and get cited answers.
- Works with your choice of artificial intelligence provider so you are not locked into one vendor.
- Requires Docker (a way to run a program inside its own sealed box, so it cannot break anything else on your server), Node.js, and Python installed on your machine.
- Needs external API keys from Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic to make the artificial intelligence features work.
- Licensed under the AGPL (a software licence that requires you to share your code modifications if you offer the app as a hosted service to others).
Expensive enterprise contract management tools like Ironclad
Docker
git clone https://github.com/AniketTati/draft-legal.git cd draft-legal pink dev:setup pnpm dev