Role
Hire an AI paralegal
It organises the paperwork and surfaces the dates and clauses, and it stops well before the point where anything becomes advice.
What this worker is
An AI paralegal in Polaris is a worker you hire to prepare and organise legal administration: summarising documents you provide, building clause checklists, tracking obligations, renewal dates and notice periods as tasks, and watching public sources for mentions. A qualified lawyer reviews everything and makes every decision. Polaris does not provide legal advice.
- Typical output
- Obligations tracker plus summary
- Core connections
- Google Drive, Gmail, web search
- Illustrative task
- 2.9 human-hours, $5.80
What this worker is great at
Finding the dates. A drawer of vendor agreements contains renewal dates, notice periods and auto-renew clauses that nobody has in a calendar, and missing one of them costs real money. Given the documents, the worker returns a tracker: one row per agreement, with the date, the notice window and the exact clause it came from, plus a task for each deadline with the reminder set before the window closes.
Checklists are the second strength. The clauses your lawyer always looks for, written once into the skill file, applied to every incoming contract, with each item marked present, absent or unclear and the relevant text quoted. It is a reading aid that makes the review faster, not a substitute for the review.
Public monitoring is the third. Trademark mentions and similar public filings and usages, searched on a cadence you set, delivered with sources and no interpretation attached.
What to connect it to
Google Drive
Where the executed agreements and templates live. Read access is enough for the preparation work.
Gmail
Contracts and notices arrive by email, and the tracker is only current if it reflects what actually came in.
Web search
For public monitoring, and for finding the published source behind a reference. Never for determining what the law is.
Slack
So a request to review a document becomes a prefilled task rather than a message somebody forgets to act on.
Where the human stays in charge
This boundary is the whole design of the role.
The paralegal prepares
- A summary of what a document says
- A clause checklist with quoted text
- An obligations and dates tracker
- Tasks for every deadline, dated and owned
A qualified lawyer decides
- What any clause means and what it exposes you to
- Whether to accept, amend or reject a term
- Every piece of advice given to the business
- Anything that is signed, filed or sent to a counterparty
What an agreement review pass costs
Illustrative, computed from the published human-hours formula: nine vendor agreements summarised into one tracker.
| Observed effort | Human-equivalent minutes |
|---|---|
| Picking up the task | 15 |
| 8,100 characters of written output at 90 chars/min | 90 |
| 5 acceptance criteria ticked at 8 min each | 40 |
| 1 progress comment, 2 files produced | 30 |
| Total: 2.9 human-hours at $2 | $5.80 |
What an AI paralegal is not good at
Anything that requires judgement about the law. Law is jurisdictional, it changes, and the consequences of being confidently wrong are borne by your company rather than by the worker. Where it is unsure it should mark the item unclear and stop, and the skill file should instruct it to do exactly that.
It also cannot tell you what is missing from a contract that should be there. Absence is a lawyer's judgement, informed by what usually goes wrong in your industry, and a checklist only catches the omissions somebody already thought to list.
It does not file, sign, serve or negotiate. It has no view of matters, dockets or case management systems, and it should never be the last reader of a document before it leaves the building.
Questions people ask
+Can an AI paralegal give legal advice?
No, and it should never be asked to. Polaris does not provide legal advice. The worker prepares summaries, checklists and trackers, and a qualified lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction reviews the material and makes every decision.
+Can it review a contract before we sign?
It can prepare the review: summarise the terms, apply your clause checklist, quote the relevant text and list the dates and obligations. Whether to sign is a decision for your lawyer, working from the document rather than from the summary.
+How does it handle a clause it does not understand?
It marks the item unclear and quotes the text rather than guessing, provided the skill file instructs it to. Writing that instruction explicitly is the single most important line in this worker's brief.
+Is our contract data safe?
Connections are authorised once, verified live and stored server-side, and a browser cannot read the credentials back. Beyond that, treat documents you put into any tool according to your own confidentiality obligations, and check with your lawyer before uploading privileged material.
+Does it replace a paralegal?
No. It removes some of the organising and summarising load, and every output still routes to a qualified person. Teams that use it well treat it as preparation that makes legal review faster, not as a way to review less.
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Knowing that a source changed, on the week it changed
A worker watches the public pages you nominate, quotes what changed, and dates it. What the change means for you is a question for your adviser.
Connect Google Drive to Polaris
Files a worker produces already arrive as attachments on the task. Files your team already keeps in Drive are the part still waiting.
Human-in-the-loop
The system cannot complete the loop without a person, by design.