Legal Prompting - AI-assisted contract and clause analysis

In this sixth episode we apply prompting techniques to contract analysis.

Four distinct operations, each with its own prompt:

• Structured review of a single contract: role, applicable law, point of view, areas to examine, output format.
• Comparison between versions: substantive differences, risk classification, few-shot prompting to standardize the format.
• Verification against a checklist: the quality of the output depends on how specific the checklist is, and it must be built beforehand.
• DPA analysis against article 28 of the GDPR: each letter of paragraph 3 as an item in a structured verification.

Three non-negotiable cautions: the model does not negotiate, it does not know the commercial context, and it does not replace the full reading of the contract by the professional.

In the background, a recurring theme: where the model that you use to analyze a client’s contract is actually running. A compliance choice before it is a technical one.