Drafting NEW IN 2.0

Start from your positions, not a stock template.

Open a blank document in Word and Vern writes the first draft, every clause already at the position your playbook says you want. Drafting happens in the Word add-in and nowhere else, so what you get is native Word text in your own styles rather than a PDF you retype.

Writing into this document
24 / 24 complete
1–5 Definitions, engagement, fees
6–8 Invoicing, payment, liability
9–14 Change control and variations
15–24 Data, termination, general

Twenty-four clauses, in your styles and numbering. Change tracking arms on your first edit.

In the Word add-in · on a blank document
Where
The Word add-in only
Output
Native Word text
Source
Your playbook
Cost
0.25 credits
Pick a template

Three documents. Your positions in all of them.

The template decides the structure. Your playbook decides what the clauses actually say.

Contract type
Client Terms of Business 24 clauses
Playbook
UK Client Terms

Your side, name, registered office and signatory, comes from your organisation profile.

The other side & deal terms
Meridian Talent Ltd
09842211
24 Jul 2026
The purpose
Ongoing professional services across the client’s UK sites.
Positions it will use
30-day payment · L-022× cap · L-04 W1Mutual indemnity · L-06
Outline
1–4 Definitions and engagement
5–7 Fees, rebates and invoicing
8 Liability and indemnity
9–14 Change control and variations
15–24 Data, termination, general
24 clauses · 21 from your positions · 3 template defaults
8 Liability and indemnity
As Vern would write it
“8.1 Each party’s total aggregate liability under this Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, shall not exceed an amount equal to twice the fees paid or payable in the twelve months preceding the claim. 8.2 Neither party excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any other liability which cannot lawfully be excluded.”
Why it says that

Your playbook requires a cap at two times annual fees with mutual exclusions, so that is what gets drafted, including the carve-outs, because a cap without them is the kind of clause a court sets aside.

Drawn from
Playbook L-04 · W1 wording

Your preferred tier, accepted by counterparties 78% of the time. Tiers 2 and 3 are held in reserve for the negotiation.

Insert into this document Change the position first
The output

A document, not a wall of text.

Most AI drafting hands you prose to paste somewhere. If the numbering breaks when you paste it, you haven't saved anybody any time.

Your styles

Headings, body and numbering come from the document’s own styles, so it looks like your paper rather than ours.

Real numbering

Clause numbers are Word’s, not typed digits, so inserting a clause later renumbers the rest the way it should.

Tracking arms on edit

The draft lands clean. The moment anyone edits it, change tracking turns on, so the negotiation is recorded from the first amendment.

Nothing to paste

It writes into the document you already have open. No download, no clipboard, no reformatting afterwards.

Then it’s a normal matter

The draft you sent is version one.

The moment it's written, it becomes a document version like any other, content-addressed, reviewable, and the baseline for every round that follows. When their marked-up copy comes back, you diff against your own draft rather than trying to remember what you sent.

Which is the quiet advantage of drafting on our paper: you start from a position you chose, and you can prove exactly what moved away from it.

v1 Your draft, on your positions 0.25 credits
v2 Their mark-up comes back 0.5 credits
v3 Your redlines, applied in Word 0.5 credits
v4 Signed 1.25 total
Drafted and negotiated for less than two full reviews
What it won’t do

Invent a position you haven’t taken

If your playbook has nothing to say about a clause, Vern uses the template’s default and marks it. You get a list of the clauses it had to guess at, before you send anything.

Force majeure TEMPLATE DEFAULT
Anti-bribery TEMPLATE DEFAULT

Both are candidates for new playbook positions, Vern offers to add them.

And to be clear

This isn’t legal advice, and it isn’t a lawyer

A drafted contract is a first draft. For anything unusual, high-value or novel, have it reviewed, you can escalate the draft to a qualified reviewer from inside Vern before it leaves the building.

What it does replace is the twenty minutes of copying last year’s agreement, finding-and-replacing the client name, and hoping nobody left a clause in from the deal before.

Watch it write your Terms of Business.

Thirty minutes. We'll build your playbook from a few signed contracts, then draft a fresh one in front of you.