Zach SternCommercial lawyer

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Interleaf · Drafting checks

The check finds the gap. The reviewer makes the call.

Two of Interleaf's drafting checks ran on four made-up clauses covering notice, a security incident, an indemnity and a liability cap. They flagged two gaps in the first draft and none after the edits. This page replays both results.

Prototype · two drafting checks recorded on September 19, 2026, replayed here

Switch drafts and follow each finding to its clause.

The assignment: after a reported security incident, a reviewer needs to know how Party A must give notice, and how the indemnity and the liability cap fit together.

The two checks flag a notice clause that doesn't point to how notice is delivered, and a liability limit that doesn't say how it relates to the indemnity.

Agreement excerpts · § 6 to § 9Initial draft
§ 6Notices

Notices shall be delivered by email to the notice address designated by each party.

§ 7Security Incident

Party A shall provide written notice of a security incident within 24 hours.

§ 8Indemnity

Party A shall indemnify Party B against covered third-party claims, subject to a separate $300,000 limit.

§ 9Limitation of Liability

Aggregate liability shall not exceed $100,000. Indemnification is addressed in Section 8.

Recorded findings

2
Check severity: medium

Incident notice doesn't point to the Notices section

Section 7 requires notice but doesn't say it must follow the delivery rules in Section 6. The check flags the missing link. Whether the general Notices section applies anyway is for the reviewer to decide.

Check severity: low

The general liability limit mentions indemnity

Section 9 mentions indemnification without saying whether indemnity sits under that limit or outside it (a carveout). The reviewer needs to settle how the general limit relates to the separate indemnity limit in Section 8.

Human review is still required. What each finding leaves open is set out below.

Party A and Party B replace the record's original labels, Vendor and Customer. The rest of the clause wording and the findings are as recorded.

The switch only swaps between the two saved results. It sends no clause text anywhere, including to an AI service.

Each finding starts with a clause and ends with a question.

A fixed check spots the drafting pattern it was written for. It can't interpret the clause, check the facts, weigh the business tradeoff or sign off.

Incident notice and the Notices section

  1. The clause§ 7 Security Incident

    "Party A shall provide written notice of a security incident within 24 hours."

  2. The questionHow must that notice be delivered?

    § 6 sends notices by email to each party's designated notice address. § 7 sets a notice duty without pointing to it.

  3. What the check foundNo link to the Notices section.

    Rated medium. The edit adds "in accordance with the Notices article," and the same check then finds nothing. It picked that up from the wording alone.

  4. The reviewer's callDoes § 6 govern anyway?

    And what starts the 24-hour clock. Even the revised clause leaves that open.

The liability cap and the indemnity

  1. The clause§ 9 Limitation of Liability

    "Aggregate liability shall not exceed $100,000. Indemnification is addressed in Section 8."

  2. The questionDoes the cap reach the indemnity?

    § 8 sets a separate $300,000 indemnity limit. § 9 mentions indemnification without saying whether indemnity sits under the general cap or is carved out of it.

  3. What the check foundIndemnity mentioned, no carveout.

    Rated low. The edit excludes indemnification obligations from the cap and points them to the § 8 limit, and the check then finds nothing.

  4. The reviewer's callDo the limits fit the deal?

    Which claims are covered, and whether the two limits reflect the allocation of risk the parties intended.

What went into this work.

What I did

I decide what each project is for and check what comes back. I work with contracts, and Interleaf is my workspace for following a contract question across an agreement and back to the words that answer it, with the legal decisions left to the person reviewing it.

What the AI did

AI tools write the code. For this page, AI tools built the replay and ran the two drafting checks on clauses written for it.

How I work with AI tools

What ran, and what it doesn't show.

Recorded
On September 19, 2026, two checks that already exist in Interleaf ran over four clauses entered by hand as structured data: two findings on the initial draft, none on the proposed edits. Three existing focused tests also passed. Neither check uses an AI model.
Source
Interleaf's source is private, so the inputs and outputs are published instead: the clauses and recorded results and a summary of the run.
Name
Interleaf was called Steno during the build, so the JSON records here use that name.
Not shown yet
Interleaf reading a document file or working out the links between clauses itself. No links were supplied, and the revised notice clause was recognized from its own words.
The full record: what each check returned and its limits

What each check returned

This is the checks' own wording on the initial draft. "LoL" is the record's shorthand for limitation of liability. On the proposed edits, neither check returned anything.

Notice delivery link · severity medium

"Section imposes a notice obligation but does not cross-reference the notice mechanics section." Suggested action: "Add a cross-reference to the Notices article or align delivery method with the notice section."

Liability cap and indemnity · severity low

"Indemnification mentioned in LoL section without explicit carveout language." Suggested action: "Verify indemnity is carved out of the cap or subject to it explicitly."

Limits

  • No finding means only that these two narrow checks found nothing. It doesn't establish legal sufficiency, timely notice, coverage, enforceability, actual liability or approval to release.
  • These are two component checks, not the full application or its release process.
  • No database, private legal library, formal engine, live incident or real agreement was used.
  • The 24-hour period, the dollar limits and the edits are illustration values, not recommended terms or positions. The excerpts aren't a complete agreement.
  • This page is a purpose-built replay of the saved results, not the Interleaf interface.
  • A small run of the focused tests showed an existing configuration warning because optional plugin loading was off. The selected tests passed.
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