Legal · Contract Brief
A plain-English brief of any contract — with a citation to every clause.
Forward any contract — PDF or DOCX — to a private email address. It comes back as a brief of the key terms in plain English, every value anchored to the page and the verbatim clause it was pulled from. A second, independent AI from a different vendor re-reads the brief before you see it. This is a document-extraction tool, not legal advice and not a lawyer — it tells you what the contract says, not what to do.
From a forwarded contract to a cited brief
Forward it
PDF or DOCX to your private address.
Refusal scan
Out-of-scope documents stopped here.
Extract & review
Clause by clause; a second AI re-reads it.
Brief delivered
To your dashboard, Slack, and an email reply.
The refusal scanner runs before any AI reads the document. A settlement, a non-compete, a litigation file, or a custom SAFE is turned away in code with a plain reason — never extracted, never given an opinion. Every delivered brief carries a non-removable “not legal advice” disclaimer.
The contract
What it runs on its own, what it checks with you, what it won't touch.
The matrix is the guardrail. It extracts and briefs — it does not give legal advice. The line that decides whether a document is in scope is enforced in code, not in a prompt.
Runs on its own
- Turns a forwarded contract into a plain-English brief across about eleven everyday contract types — NDA, vendor SaaS agreement, MSA, SOW, commercial lease, LOI, consulting agreement, affiliate / referral, and more.
- Cites the page and the verbatim clause behind every extracted value, so each one is checkable against your own document.
- Re-reads every brief with a second, independent AI from a different vendor before you ever see it.
- Refuses to draft a value when no clause actually answers it — it never stitches together a half-grounded brief.
- Validates each quoted clause against the source bytes — a value it cannot anchor to the document is dropped, not surfaced.
Checks with you first
- High-stakes documents — DPA, MSA, YC SAFE, equity grant, commercial lease — get an extra review from a fully independent AI built by a different vendor before the brief is delivered.
- An equity grant whose 409A valuation language needs interpretation is gated to you — it briefs the plain terms and flags the rest rather than guessing.
- A non-standard or custom SAFE that does not match a canonical YC template is gated to you — it will not brief a structurally modified securities document.
Won't touch
- Settlement and release-of-claims documents — weighing a settlement is a judgment call, not an extraction task.
- Litigation, pleadings, and discovery — active legal proceedings need licensed counsel, full stop.
- Non-compete clauses in any document — enforceability varies state to state, a UPL minefield it stays out of.
- Contractor classification — whether a worker is W-2 or 1099 is an employment-law judgment it will not make.
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreements beyond basic DPA scope. It extracts and briefs — it does not give legal advice.
Full capability matrix — every document type, by tier
PROFICIENT
Briefed end-to-end across 14 contract types — extracted, cited, and re-read by the second AI:
- Mutual & one-way NDA
- MSA (master services agreement)
- SaaS / vendor subscription agreement
- Vendor / supplier agreement
- SOW / order form
- DPA / sub-processor agreement
- Commercial lease
- LOI / term sheet
- Consulting agreement
- Employment offer (structural terms only)
- Standard YC SAFE / equity grant (structural terms only)
ASSISTED
Briefed, but gated to you for a second look on the parts that need judgment:
- Employment offer — base terms briefed; non-compete, IP-assignment and arbitration fields are never surfaced
- Standard YC SAFE — only when it matches a canonical template; cap, discount and MFN briefed
- Equity / option grant — vesting, strike and exercise window only; no tax or 409A interpretation
REFUSED
Turned away in code, before any AI reads the document — these need a licensed lawyer:
- Settlement & release-of-claims documents
- Litigation, pleadings & discovery
- Non-compete / non-solicit clauses in any document
- Contractor classification (W-2 vs 1099)
- HIPAA BAA & other PII-heavy / regulated documents
What you get
This is the brief that lands when you forward a contract.
A vendor SaaS agreement, briefed. Every value carries the page and the verbatim clause it was pulled from — nothing in the brief is a value the document doesn't state.
Brief · vendor SaaS agreement
2nd-AI review: clearedAcme Cloud — Subscription Agreement (28 pages)
Annual fee
p.3$24,000 / year
Cited clause — “Subscriber shall pay an annual subscription fee of $24,000, payable Net 30.”
Payment terms
p.3Net 30
Cited clause — “…payable Net 30 from the date of invoice.”
Auto-renewal
p.7Renews; 60-day notice to cancel
Cited clause — “This Agreement renews automatically for successive one-year terms unless either party gives written notice at least 60 days before the renewal date.”
Liability cap
p.111× fees paid in the prior 12 months
Cited clause — “…total liability shall not exceed the fees paid by Subscriber in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim.”
Governing law
p.14Delaware
Cited clause — “This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.”
Re-read by a second, independent AI from a different vendor. It checks that every value is backed by its quoted clause and that no quoted clause was invented — a different vendor has different blind spots than the one that wrote the brief.
Carried on every brief — not legal advice. AI-generated extraction. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal services. No attorney-client relationship is created. This is mechanical data extraction only and reflects the AI's reading of the document text. Use your own judgment.
Net 30 = payment is due within 30 days of the invoice date.
Pricing
Four tiers by monthly document volume.
Every tier gets the same engine — cited clauses, the second-vendor AI review, the refusal scanner, and the non-removable disclaimer. Scale and up add a fully independent cross-vendor reviewer on high-stakes contract types and revision-tracking memory.
What it replaces
Doing this in-house means a full salary, benefits, and months of ramp — for one function. Ataski ships the output from day one at a flat, predictable monthly price.
Enterprise-grade quality for a fraction of a hire. Scale up or pause anytime — you only pay for the months you use.
Brief PAYG
$9 / doc · no monthly minimum
Solo founder? Start here — pay only for docs you brief. No monthly minimum, no commitment. Upgrade to Starter ($49/mo for 7 docs) the month you cross a few documents.
Start Brief PAYGStarter
$49 / month
7 docs / month · 1 seat
≈ $7.00 per document briefed
Beyond 7 docs: $8 / doc
- Plain-English brief, a clause cited behind every value
- Second, independent AI review from a different vendor
- Refusal scanner runs before any AI reads the document
A solo founder or very small business signing a couple of contracts a month.
Choose StarterTeam
$399 / month
75 docs / month · 5 seats
≈ $5.32 per document briefed
Beyond 75 docs: $6 / doc
- Everything in Starter · higher monthly cap
- 5 seats, shared brief history
- Same refusal perimeter, same audit trail
A small team routing vendor and customer paper through one inbox.
Choose TeamScale
$1,499 / month
400 docs / month · 20 seats
≈ $3.75 per document briefed
Beyond 400 docs: $4 / doc
- Everything in Team
- Cross-vendor reviewer on high-stakes types
- Revision tracking — what changed between drafts
A legal-ops function with steady contract volume.
Choose ScaleSeats = teammates who can log in and use the workspace.
Business · $3,999/mo · 1,500 docs / month · Enterprise — above 1,500 docs/month
For volume past the Business cap, or when procurement wants a contract-lifecycle integration. SAML, CLM integration, faceted repository search, custom retention, a dedicated customer-success manager, and an uptime SLA. Sold inbound.
- · Everything in Scale
- · SSO · audit-log export · custom retention
- · DPA on request
Monthly caps are hard. When your account reaches its monthly document cap, the next forwarded contract is held until the counter resets. Upgrade a tier or contact sales for headroom.
Setup
About five minutes from signup to your first brief.
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Get your private address. A unique inbound email address is created for your account — not guessable by outsiders.
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Connect Slack (optional). Pick a channel for the brief; a short skim posts there as the full brief renders.
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Forward a contract. Any PDF or DOCX. The brief lands in your dashboard and as an email reply — usually within minutes.
Under the hood
A document tool with the guardrails written into the code.
- Stops out-of-scope documents first
- A deterministic refusal scanner reads the document text before any AI is called — settlement, non-compete, litigation, contractor classification, custom-SAFE, and HIPAA patterns return a structured refusal with no AI involved
- Drafts the brief
- An extracting AI works against a per-document-type schema — every value must come back with a verbatim quote, or it is not surfaced
- Reviews the brief
- A second, independent AI from a different vendor re-reads every brief; high-stakes types add a fully independent cross-vendor reviewer, with a third AI to break a tie
- Anchors every value
- A validator re-parses the original document bytes and matches each quoted clause against the source — a value it cannot verify is dropped, never invented
- Keeps opinion out
- A banned-vocabulary check strips opinion-slope language from the brief — it reports what the contract says, not whether a term is good or bad
- Disclaimer & privacy
- A non-removable “not legal advice” disclaimer is built into every delivered brief; documents stay private to your workspace, with every step in an append-only audit log
Know what a contract says — with a clause behind every line.
Forward any contract; get a plain-English brief of the key terms, every value cited to the page and the verbatim clause. A document-extraction tool — not legal advice, and not a lawyer.