Clause 9 Advanced Drafting
Create sophisticated legal documents that feel bespoke, yet are automatically drafted in a matter of minutes. Discover the most powerful document automation software for legal professionals.
Clause based drafting
Most knowledge systems want to be everything to everyone, storing any kind of knowledge, in any format. Jacks of all trades, but masters of none.
In Clause9, knowledge management revolves around clauses and clauses only. Centrally store a clause’s body text, title, translations, legal nuances, internal comments,... and interactively "build" documents by stacking clauses on top of each other.
Draft at a higher level
Create sophisticated legal documents that feel bespoke, yet are automatically drafted in a matter of minutes. Discover the most powerful document automation software for legal professionals.
Beyond knowledge management
Previous-generation knowledge systems only store and retrieve knowledge. This works for doctrine and case law, but clauses want to be inserted in legal documents instead of gathering dust. So knowledge management becomes knowledge deployment.
Automate mundane work
Mundane contract drafting tasks, such as endless searches in old files and dull grammatical changes, are one of the main sources of attrition in legal teams. Intelligent clause libraries allow lawyers to find clauses in a matter of seconds, and focus on higher level work.
Faster onboarding
Finding a relevant clause is easy. Selecting the right clause in a heap of conspicuously similar clauses is the real challenge. Intelligent clause libraries allow you to filter clauses on legal nuances. Combined with the right internal comments, even new team members can immediately find the right clause, with the right legal nuance.
Centralized storage
Any change to a clause will automatically and immediately ripple through all templates that make use of that clause. Stop making the same update in hundreds of documents, or risking errors because some clauses were not updated.
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Build clause libraries
Clause9 allows you to neatly store all your clauses and enrich them with additional information, so you can always retrieve the right content in seconds.
Add succinct descriptions to guide users on proper usage, and link optional or alternative clauses together for easy swapping.
You can also define how clauses interact with each other, enabling advanced automation, and attach relevant jurisprudence, doctrine or internal notes.
Control your drafting
Reliably change defined terms
No more messing around with "Replace all". Reliably change terminology with one click.
Clause9's built-in dictionary has advanced grammatical knowledge of 28 languages and takes care of any tedious editing.
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Automatic definition list generation
Definition lists are automatically compiled, always correct and will re-sort upon any change in the legal terminology.
Forgotten terms and “ghost” definitions thus become impossible.
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Automatic comparisons
To facilitate internal reviews or negotiation ping-pong, legal professionals like to create both “clean” and marked-up versions of contracts.
Clause9 allows you to automatically output such markup.
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Instantly show changes
Stay in control of the drafting process. Clause9 allows for instant "tracked changes" generation for any interactions with clauses and templates.
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Say goodbye to "corrupt" Word files
Everyone receives those horrendous Word files, where only some paragraphs are automatically numbered, the layout jumps around, or the table of contents refuses to be generated.
Each Word file created by Clause9 is built from the ground up, and will always have correct cross-references and styles.
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Protect your files
Clause9 features a wealth of document protection options, like locking styling, protecting exports (to avoid sneaky changes being added to a document), or limiting export options (e.g.: only to PDF).
Control your versions
Keep track of each clause's history, and easily swap between old and new versions of a clause. For example, the old version of a certain clause may need to be used for three more months before being replaced by the newer version.
This version control is perfect for compliance reasons, or when legislative changes do not neatly come into effect at the same time.
Deep grammatical support
Deep knowledge
Clause9 offers deep language support for 28 different languages, with grammatical knowledge and automatic translations. That’s far beyond the bilingual functionality offered by a few other drafting software packages, and infinitely more than the zero language support offered by most.
Deep integration
Clause9’s multilingual support is not simply bolted on because our marketing team thought it would be cool. It has been a core functionality from its design, and is very deeply embedded in every part of the software.
No other commercially available software allows you to generate a multi-lingual document where article translations are automatically aligned, in any number of languages.
Supported languages
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Integrated machine translations
Across the platform, texts can be automatically translated to other languages with the click of a button. We proudly make use of the language services of DeepL.
Multi-lingual column export
In non-English speaking countries, it often happens that legal documents must be translated and presented in a side-by-side comparison, to allow foreign stakeholders to understand the contents of a document
Other examples
Create a custom language version of every clause and definition, and translate all the legal knowledge you associate with each clause and document, whether it’s case law, legal doctrine, or internal memos.
Generate translations of your bespoke documents with a single click, eliminating the need for human review and avoiding the repetitive task of manually translating similar content over and over again.
Stop fighting your numbering
Your biggest frustration in MS Word is probably getting the numbering right. How often have you battled with its rigid, confusing system?
Clause9 fixes that with a numbering system designed for legal drafting. Whether it’s a top-level clause or a nested subclause, the numbering is always correct, no workarounds needed.
Real-time interactions
Each question adapts to its context, for example, by hiding itself when another question is answered a certain way or by showing different options when specific conditions are met.
This makes it easy to model full decision trees and creates a smooth, intuitive user experience.