Every contract checked against your playbook, with the departures flagged.
We set up AI to read the other side's draft against your firm's standard positions. It flags each clause that departs from them and puts your preferred wording beside it. A fee earner decides what to push back on.
If your team doesn't get the hours back, we'll work for free until they do.
The other side's draft arrives. Someone has to read every line.
The first read is the slow part.
Before anyone can advise, someone has to find what's different.
Brightwell supply agreementYour positions live in senior people's heads.
What you accept and what you push back on isn't written down anywhere.
Tom HalePartnerThe review depends on who does it.
Two fee earners can mark up the same contract differently.
Clause 9.2Liability capFrom their draft to a marked-up list of what to push back on.
Marlow Pryce LLPSupply agreement v1.docx
Your playbookBrightwell supply agreementTheir draft, v1Send to Marlow Pryce01The draft arrives
In Word or by email, as it does now.
02AI reads it against your playbook
Your standard positions, your fallbacks and the points you never accept.
03AI flags each departure
With the clause, your position and your preferred wording beside it.
04A fee earner decides
They accept, reject or change each point, and the mark-up is ready to send.
Built into: Word and Outlook, with Copilot or Claude.
What our clients say.
“It's given me back probably a third of my time, which is unbelievable.”
We now do the work that used to wait on Joey. It took us a week to take it over.
0:52Floor Authority
Double the business, with only a few new hires.
We took the repetitive work out of their quoting, stock and accounts. Their team no longer does it by hand, so they spend their time on customers.
In revenue a year
Growth in two years, with only a few new hires
Staff productivity measured by CEO
“Simply couldn't deliver at the pace we are without NQU support. We can now tell clients when things will be done and have complete confidence they will be.”
“They think ahead, always deliver on time and are able to guide you along.”
Why not just use something else?
- Contract review softwareGood if you want a ready-made product. It starts from its own standard positions, and yours have to be set up in it.
- Word's compareShows what changed from an earlier version. It can't tell you what differs from your position.
- A junior's first passWorks, and it's how people learn. It takes their time on every contract.
- Your AI peopleWe set up AI to read each draft against your own standard positions and flag every departure with your preferred wording beside it, in Word and Outlook. A fee earner decides what to push back on.
AI your team actually wants, in use within 14 days.
We start small, prove value, and then scale further.
- Fenwick & Hale intro30 minMMia Santos
George's notes04:10Proposals take a day each09:35Meeting notes typed by hand13:20Client details entered twice18:45Copilot licences, little use01We find where AI can help.
On the intro call, we learn how your firm works and where your team spends its time. You don't need to prepare anything.
- AI opportunity audit
- 01Proposal first drafts6 hrs/weekStart here
- 02Meeting notes into HubSpot4 hrs/week
- 03New client set-up in Xero3 hrs/week
- 04Month-end client reports2 hrs/week
02We send your AI opportunity audit.
Within 24 hours, we'll send our opportunity audit that details the hours we can save your team. If we don't save them, we'll continue working for free until we do.
- Can you send a proposal?HHannah Okafor09:14Okafor proposal.docxProposal drafts14 days
- Access agreed with IT provider
- Built in Outlook
- Team trained
- LiveDay 14
03We get your first system in use within 14 days.
We build it into the tools your team already uses, and talk to your IT provider for you. Then we train the people who'll use it.
- TeamsFenwick & Hale × NQUPostsFiles
Friday update- Shipped
- Invoice chasing in Xero
- Next
- Client onboarding pack
- From Mia
- A recent pack to copy
👍1Mia SantosThe list of 6- Proposal drafts
- Invoice chasing
- Onboarding pack
- Board report
04We keep going.
We work through the list in your audit as fast as your team can handle each change, and keep improving what's live as your team tells us what works.
What you won't have to do.
After the intro call and a kickoff, we handle the rest, including working with your IT provider and training your team.
“The confidence that the job will be done right is the best thing. We can hand off anything and it will either get done perfectly or there will be clear communication by NQU for what is needed.”
- Work out what AI could do for your firm
- Roll it out to everyone at once
- Replace software you rely on
- Chase your IT provider
Your team gets the hours back. Or we'll work for free until they do.
In your audit, we tell you how many hours we can save your team. We get your first system in use within 14 days. If we don't save the hours, we'll keep working for free until we do.
“Not Quite Unicorns delivered nothing but excellence for the two major projects we worked on with them. It's quite refreshing working with a company that delivers on its promise.”
Frequently asked questions.
Can AI review contracts?
Yes, for the first pass. Set up with your standard positions, it flags each clause that departs from them and suggests your wording. A fee earner decides what matters and what to do about it.
We don't have a written playbook. Can you still help?
Yes. We write one with you, from contracts you've already negotiated, and your partners approve it.
Will it miss things?
It can, so it's a first pass and the fee earner still reads the contract. It also lists the clauses it found nothing wrong with, so you can see what it checked.
Is client data safe?
Yes. It runs in your own Microsoft account, or in ours in the UK, EU or US. We only use business AI accounts, and they don't learn from your data.
What does the SRA expect?
The SRA expects you to stay responsible for the work, protect client confidentiality and supervise how AI is used. We draft an AI policy for your firm that covers this, and that your own COLP can adapt and own.
What does it cost?
One flat monthly fee covers this and everything else we build for you. Our minimum engagement is normally $3k/mo.
Other tasks we can take off your team.
Client onboarding
AI sets the client up in your systems and chases up for any missing information.
First drafts from your precedents
AI drafts from your own precedents, in your house style, ready to be checked by a fee earner.
Intake and triage
AI reads each enquiry, flags possible conflicts, routes it to the right person and drafts a reply.
Every contract checked against your playbook, with the departures flagged.
Book an intro and we'll send your AI opportunity audit within 24 hours. It shows where AI can save your team time.