SAAS · Document intelligence
We built the technical foundation for a SaaS platform that automates complex legal document creation with usage-based pricing system
Outcome
Contracts drafted in 3 minutes instead of 2 days; jurisdiction-tagged clauses, handed straight to DocuSign.
Standard legal agreements are a necessity for modern business, but the process is often slow and expensive. This creates a barrier for startups and professionals who need compliant contracts without the high cost of traditional legal services, presenting a clear market need for an accessible, software-based alternative.
The client, a legal technology company, sought to fill this gap. Their primary challenge was to convert the nuanced logic of legal practice-with its conditional clauses and jurisdictional variance-into a scalable, automated system. They required a platform that could guide a non-legal user through a complex questionnaire and produce a reliable, enforceable document.
They partnered with Robust Devs to engineer the minimum viable product. We designed and built the core platform architecture, from the user-facing questionnaire in React to the Laravel backend that assembles documents based on a dynamic rules engine. The result was a focused, market-ready platform prepared for its first users.
The challenge
How we solved it
Technologies
The platform's core is an engine that constructs documents in real time, drafting in 3 minutes an agreement that took 2 days through traditional legal services. As a user answers questions, the system intelligently selects, modifies, and arranges modular legal clauses from a secure library. This moves beyond simple templates, creating customized agreements that precisely match the user's specific circumstances.
To manage legal complexity, we built a system that adapts documents to local and state regulations. Each clause is tagged with jurisdictional rules, allowing the platform to automatically generate an agreement that is valid for a specific location. This removes the guesswork and risk of using a generic, non-compliant template.
How we built it
Modelled legal drafting as a clause engine with jurisdiction metadata, not as a document template. A contract is conditional logic: which clauses apply depends on the answers and on where the parties are. The React questionnaire feeds a Laravel rules engine that selects and populates pre-approved clauses, and a compliance module tags each clause with the jurisdictions it belongs to, so the same answers produce a different document in a different location without anyone editing text. Signatures and storage were kept out of the core. An integration layer hands the finished document to DocuSign and Google Drive, which is why a draft that used to take two days now takes three minutes and still ends in a signed, filed agreement.
In the client's words
“Two days to three minutes, and the lawyers still review every one. That balance was their suggestion, not ours.”
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