Upload your firm's contract negotiation playbook — in any format — and get a structured AI configuration that reviews contracts the way you do.
Every firm has contract playbooks — partner memos, spreadsheets, negotiation guides. Thousands of hours of accumulated judgment. AI doesn't know any of it.
Summarizes contracts. Suggests generic edits. Same advice for every firm, every deal, every time.
Reviews contracts the way your firm does it. Your positions. Your fallbacks. Your red lines. Your institutional knowledge.
Any format: PDF, Word, Excel, plain text, pasted notes. The skill identifies the structure and extracts your positions.
Your playbook becomes a structured SKILL.md — clause-by-clause guidance with preferred positions, fallbacks, red lines, and review checklists.
Upload any contract. The AI reviews it against your rules with multi-pass analysis: proviso scanning, cross-reference synthesis, missing provision detection.
Validated across 171 test assertions with a 100% pass rate — including adversarial contracts designed to fool AI.
"Provided, however" clauses that reduce headline protections.
Provisions in Section 14 that undermine promises in Section 3.
Broad definitions with scope-gutting carve-outs buried in sub-clauses.
Required clauses that are simply absent from the contract.
Modifications to prior agreements flagged as unverifiable.
300-word sentences with double negatives decoded into plain assessments.
What you build in Cowork is a Level 2 tool — excellent, but session-bound. Every new session begins at zero. Inside Irys, that same playbook operates as a Level 3 and Level 4 tool: persistent firm context that compounds across every matter.
Session-bound intelligence. Every new task starts from zero. Explanations repeat. Insight doesn't carry forward. Powerful — but fleeting.
Persistent firm context. Proprietary knowledge that compounds. A system of record your practice runs on — where judgment becomes infrastructure.
In recent weeks, Anthropic shipped Claude for Word and Cowork — two releases that made the core product of most Level 2 legal AI startups redundant overnight. The labs keep shipping. Every quarter, the floor rises. The durable version of a playbook skill lives inside a system, not a standalone tool. Wave 1 built copilots. Wave 2 owns the matter.
Inside Irys, a single ingested playbook becomes firm-wide intelligence — wired into every surface your team touches.
Real-time review as you draft. The AI flags deviations from your preferred language and suggests your fallback positions — inline, while you work.
Firm judgment compounds over time. Every ingested playbook, every reviewed contract, every resolved negotiation enriches every future AI interaction.
Playbook context travels with the deal. Every team member — partner, associate, paralegal — sees the same intelligence attached to the same matter.
One partner ingests a playbook once. Every associate and paralegal in the practice group benefits — with permissioned, auditable access across the firm.
A playbook contains your firm's bottom-line positions, walkaway points, and strategic fallbacks. In Cowork, that runs locally on your machine — which is good. Inside Irys, it runs in an enterprise environment with explicit permissions, contractual protections, auditability, and controlled retention. That's the architectural difference courts are starting to care about.
One playbook is useful. Ten playbooks across practice areas is a moat. Every ingested playbook makes the platform smarter for that firm. This is firm-specific intelligence that doesn't exist anywhere else — and it's the one thing the labs can't compress, because it's built on your judgment, not theirs.
Download Claude Desktop and enable Cowork mode for skill support.
Add the playbook-ingestion skill folder to your Cowork skills directory.
Download Skill FolderOpen Cowork, mention your playbook, and the skill activates automatically. Works with any contract type and format.
Upload a contract and ask the AI to review it against your new playbook skill.