Open-sourcing legal templates to make legal documents free for 400m small businesses around the world. Git enabled version control and smarter features for input fields and clause selection. AI Co-Pilot in the works.

Hey ProductHunt community, I'd love to hear what you think about GitLaw. GitLaw offers free, open-source legal templates with Git-powered collaboration and version control. We have over 300 documents today and hope to receive many more. Employment contracts, NDAs, SaaS agreements, Privacy Policies etc - all free. Docs exist - why GitLaw? - Existing templates are often low quality and cost money. - Using Git, we’re enabling the community to build "open standards" together. - Smart input fields that automatically fill in the contract fields and simple on/off or variant selection for clauses makes it simple to customize and use templates on GitLaw - A private workspace for your documents (we’ve got a lot more stuff to build here) Isn’t AI coming to eat legal? - Well, yes. People already use tools like ChatGPT to generate docs. But the general consensus is that while LLMs are amazing - trusted templates are a much more reliable base. - AI presents a significant opportunity to help people *use* legal templates - but a template repository is a helpful foundation. We believe the time is right for GitLaw to exist. - Our plan is to add a Co-Pilot in the future - an AI chatbot to act as a quasi paralegal to help summarize or adapt documents. We also think AI agents can help make legal documents much faster/easier to create / review / sign. How is GitLaw going to make money? - Everything we have will remain free. - Once server costs start to add up we might add a paid option for additional features - for example - the latest LLM models for a small monthly fee and referring lawyers through a marketplace when a human is needed. We’ve built this as a fun side project with no funding.

@nickholzherr looking awesome, very impressed. I’d love to be able to upload existing contracts and have it translate from lawyer talk to human language, pulling out key consideration points

@nickholzherr looks great! Upvoted and look forward to using directly and potentially to pass forward to the 170-200 clients we connect each month

@will_maynard thanks Will.. great idea! Not something we had planned so far.. but I'm going to add it to our list

@philm7 thanks Phil! The co-pilot that's in progress will do exactly that

@gary_lennon Thank you Gary - would love to work with you to figure out how we can best make it work for your 200 monthly clients.

Congrats on making legal docs more accessible! How will you ensure the templates are up-to-date with the latest laws in each region?

@ihuzaifashoukat thanks Huzaifa! Similar to how GitHub works with keeping open-source projects up to date - a community of lawyers / users around the world who maintain documents in their sector/region. AI Agents that are responsible for different regions/sectors of law might also be able to help.. but. I think the jury is out on whether that will work well.

@nickholzherr really great product idea and I love the mission. I am curious about a few things - are these documents regionally biased? Ie: geared at US / Canadian / International remote employees? Also - let's presume I already have legal docs (Privacy policy) but I want to cross reference it with other docs or upload and have it reviewed against the docs you've got in the repo - is the a feasible use case with the current build?

@dzaitzow Thank you Daniel! Yes, documents are regionally based. We have a field called "Jurisdiction" where you can filter what contracts you see. Today we have mainly US and UK contracts. As the community / user base grows - I expect the # of jurisdictions that we have good coverage in to grow as well. We have some global coverage but it's more patchy outside the US and UK. For cross referencing - that's absolutely where this is going - but it doesn't support that today. We're planning things like: - automatically created "playbooks" based on contracts you've uploaded and then help you apply those to new documents you're reviewing. - automatically detect issues with contracts in your repositories based on trends in documents uploaded by others - detecting negotiation trends and helping you negotiate your contracts based on what's market standard on the platform. The more users we have the more we can do. Today is step 1 :)

@nickholzherr really interesting - are you going to put together a mailing list for feature rollouts - I'd love to stay updated on the project.

@dzaitzow Hey Daniel, we'll keep signed up users updated - so if you sign up you'll get updates when we have them. Don't have a separate mailing list currently.

@nickholzherr i'll keep an eye out!

GitLaw

Git-powered, open-source, free legal document templates.

Git-powered, open-source, free legal document templates.

GitLaw

Git-powered, open-source, free legal document templates.

Git-powered, open-source, free legal document templates.

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