Solo Grants project
Building a Contract Risk Navigator for People Without In-House Legal Teams
LexDraft is a focused prototype for founders, freelancers, creators, consultants, and small businesses that need a practical way to understand contract obligations, risk flags, and negotiation questions before making a decision or escalating to counsel.
LexDraft is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. The prototype supports informed preparation, not legal decision-making.
The problem
Contract review is often too expensive or slow for the people who still carry the risk.
The focused prototype
A risk navigator, not a legal-advice machine.
Plain-English understanding
Explain what a contract appears to say in business language.
Traceable risk flags
Attach each issue to an excerpt, risk level, reason, question, negotiation direction, and confidence note.
Obligation summary
Pull out dates, deadlines, payment terms, user duties, and other-party obligations.
Counsel escalation
Make it clearer which issues deserve qualified legal review before signing.
Current status
What works, what is prototype, and what still needs to be built.
Already works
Public paste-text demo, structured browser fallback output, static example transformation, product intake, template pages, and Stripe checkout path.
Prototype
AI-assisted contract analysis when an approved provider key is configured; otherwise a rule-based demo keeps the product understandable.
Still to build
Secure temporary file-processing tests, OCR experiments, retention controls, evaluation datasets, error monitoring, and deeper agreement-type test coverage.
Not claimed
No attorney review, guaranteed legal accuracy, private document storage, malware scanning, role-based access, enterprise audit history, or security certification is claimed as live.
Technical approach
Start narrow, make every risk explanation traceable, then evaluate against realistic test documents.
Structured prompt schema
Force outputs into summary, obligations, risk flags, negotiation questions, fallback positions, escalation items, and limitations.
Agreement-type coverage
Focus on five common small-business agreement types before expanding: NDA, services, contractor, vendor, and influencer/licensing agreements.
Safe fallback mode
Keep the public demo useful even when external AI provider configuration is unavailable.
Evaluation before claims
Use original fictional and test documents to compare output quality without presenting fabricated customer results.
Why one solo builder can create it
The narrow wedge is the advantage.
Clinton Minus is building LexDraft from direct experience across legal, contracts, finance, sales, and small-business operations. The project is intentionally scoped to one painful workflow: helping people prepare better contract questions before they sign or escalate to counsel. That makes a solo prototype realistic.
Exact grant budget
$1,000 to improve the prototype responsibly.
LLM API compute
$350 for contract analysis and testing.
OCR and parsing experiments
$150 for document-processing experiments.
Temporary file-processing tests
$150 for secure storage and processing experiments.
Hosting and database infrastructure
$150 for prototype infrastructure.
Evaluation dataset preparation
$100 for original test documents and evaluation materials.
Monitoring and testing tools
$100 for error monitoring, logging, and prototype testing.
Milestone
Working prototype across five common small-business agreement types.
- Analyze pasted contract text for at least five agreement types.
- Produce structured, traceable explanations and risk flags.
- Generate negotiation questions, fallback positions, and obligation summaries.
- Maintain clear limitations and counsel-escalation boundaries.
- Publish public demo updates without claiming legal advice or fabricated performance results.
Contact
Project contact and demo access
Contact Clinton Minus through the LexDraft intake link or email hello@aivistaglobal.com for prototype questions, grant follow-up, or product collaboration.