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18 workflow templates
App data requirements
When the requirements for an internal app leave fields or actions unclear, the business systems analyst gets one data specification: entities, fields, who reads and writes each, and every unresolved name as a question. Nothing is built or changed.
- Starts it
- Business systems analyst
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 9 outputs
Contract amendment trace
Before a question about a signed contract goes to counsel, the contracts manager has one dated history of the provision that matters: every signed document in order, each version quoted with its document and section, every gap marked, and a list for the lawyer to confirm. It never says which wording controls.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract intake brief
When another party's agreement arrives, counsel gets a one-page intake brief: what it is, read from its titles, the parties as named, what is missing, the requester's purpose and date, and the reviewer your own routing rules name. It comments on no term; counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract issues table for counsel
Before counsel negotiates a vendor or customer agreement, the contracts team hands over one cited issues table: every clause quoted with its section, the playbook position it meets or departs from, the playbook’s fallback wording copied beside each departure, and the approver your matrix names. Counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Contract renewal and notice register
From your signed agreements and amendments, the contracts manager gets a register for counsel to confirm: each term, renewal and notice clause quoted with its section, cancel-by and send-by dates proposed only under counsel's own counting rules, and the windows sorted by proposed send-by date. Nothing is sent.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Goal alignment review
Before next period's goals are set, the chief executive sees every team goal mapped to the company priority it serves: goals with no company parent, goals that pull against each other, priorities nobody owns, and the questions for each owner. It judges goals, never people.
- Starts it
- Chief of staff
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Inbound demand or claim intake record
When a demand, claim or subpoena arrives, the company's lawyer gets one intake record the same day: who sent it, what it asks, every date it states, the facts and citations it relies on, related matters, where the records are, and a question on keeping them. It rates nothing and recommends nothing.
- Starts it
- Legal operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Invention disclosure brief for patent counsel
Before the first call with patent counsel, the founder or engineering lead has one factual brief: the invention in the inventor's words, who contributed what and when, every outside demonstration, sale, talk or publication with its date and audience, and the records still missing. Counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
IP ownership and licence question table
Before an agreement or statement of work is signed, IP counsel gets one table of the ownership, assignment, licence, background-IP and confidentiality clauses, each quoted with its section, set against the company's own IP positions and led by whether the assignment words counsel expects were found.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Legal hold custodian tracker
Once counsel has issued a legal hold, your legal operations lead keeps one tracker for counsel: every custodian and system in counsel’s scope, who has acknowledged and who is overdue, who has left or changed role, the refresh date counsel set, and reminders copied from counsel’s own text for a person to send.
- Starts it
- Legal operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
NDA check against counsel's approved positions
Before anyone signs a proposed NDA, counsel gets every clause quoted with its section and set beside the positions counsel has approved: matching, departing or not covered. Any obligation beyond confidentiality sends the whole NDA to counsel. The check never says an NDA is ready to sign.
- Starts it
- Salesperson
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Open-source licence inventory for counsel
Before a release ships or an acquirer asks, counsel and the engineering lead get every open-source package listed with its licence as found, the file and line where it was read, and the duties your own policy attaches to it. A missing, custom or conflicting licence is marked needs review, never cleared.
- Starts it
- Engineering lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Outside-counsel invoice questions
When a law firm’s invoice arrives, legal operations has one worksheet ready: every line set against the agreed rates, the approved matter budget and the company’s own billing guidelines, each difference written as a neutral question for the firm. Nothing is sent, paid or rejected until people decide.
- Starts it
- Legal operations manager
- Brings
- export, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Pilot acceptance-test preparation
Go into every AI pilot with the test already written: the cases that matter, what good looks like for each and the rule your owner will use to decide.
- Starts it
- Pilot owner
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Project handover readiness check
When a finished deliverable is ready for the team that will run it, the project manager brings one checklist against that team's own requirements: acceptance evidence, instructions, access, training, support owners and open items. The receiving owner accepts or names the conditions still to meet.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Project intake and capacity review
When a new initiative is proposed, the portfolio owner sees it scored on the business's own criteria beside the projects already committed, the delivery days it would use month by month, and what it would crowd out or push later. The owner accepts, defers or rejects it.
- Starts it
- Portfolio owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Project lessons review
When a phase or a project ends, the project manager gets one blameless review: whether it achieved what it was for, how scope, schedule and budget moved and why, whether the success measures were the right ones, and practice changes for the team to choose, each with an owner and a follow-up date.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Weekly status requests to outside counsel
Every Monday, in-house counsel has a draft status request for each outside firm that owes one: what has happened since the last update, the dates on record to confirm, decisions pending and spend against budget, plus the matters skipped and why. Counsel edits and sends each one.
- Starts it
- Legal operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.