Gixo legal drafting guide
Start with the parties, terms, governing law, and reference files. Gixo builds a structured legal first draft that counsel can review clause by clause.
Drafting a legal document with Gixo takes six steps: choose the document type, upload reference agreements, fill in parties and terms, set the governing law, generate the draft, then export it after counsel has reviewed it. Gixo Lex covers 29 named draft workflows plus custom drafting — guided confidentiality/IP, services, corporate/equity, employment, real-estate, finance, and general legal documents, including custom drafting — supports agreements with up to 10 parties in distinct roles, and exports in PDF, DOCX, HTML, and TXT. Before review, a draft analysis pass runs five rule checks (clause inventory, missing-clause coverage, defined-term consistency, cross-reference validation, and execution readiness), the clause check flags every mandatory clause the catalogue requires for the selected document type but the draft is missing, and every draft comes with an AI contract review that reads the whole contract and quotes the words each finding rests on. Lex plans run $29–$229 per seat per month with a 14-day no-card trial. Gixo helps prepare regulated work. It does not provide legal advice, certify compliance, or replace professional review.
What does Gixo Lex support when drafting a legal document?
Compare the supported drafting workflows, inputs, outputs, and review boundaries before you begin.
| Specification | What Gixo Lex does |
|---|---|
| Named draft workflows | 29 named on the main create flow, plus custom drafting: guided confidentiality/IP, services, corporate/equity, employment, real-estate, finance, and general legal documents, including custom drafting |
| Parties per agreement | Up to 10, each with entity details, representatives, and a distinct role |
| Governing law | Supplied as drafting context; counsel verifies the applicable law and the resulting clauses |
| Reference material | Upload permitted agreements, precedents, and templates to inform drafting, up to 5 files: PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, PowerPoint, text, scans and pictures (read by OCR), audio and video (transcribed). Reviewers check how the resulting draft uses them |
| How the draft is written | Section by section, definitions first; figures in the draft are checked against what you supplied |
| Draft analysis checks | 5 rule checks: clause inventory, missing-clause coverage, defined-term consistency, cross-reference validation, execution readiness |
| AI contract review | Included with every draft: each expected clause marked present, weak or absent; up to 25 risks, each with its level, the party it falls on, why it matters and replacement wording; and provisions that cannot both be followed. Every quotation is checked against the contract's text, findings are decided before approval, and there is no single risk score |
| Missing-clause check | Deterministic checks flag every mandatory clause a document type's catalogue requires but the draft is missing, from 116 clause definitions across 29 named document types |
| Compliance work product | checklists, evidence matrices, working papers, filing support notes, and policy drafts, across 5 execution modes |
| Editing granularity | Clause by clause — rewrite, rephrase, or rescope one clause without touching the rest. Ask Lex drafts a clause or answers a question about the contract, quoting it |
| Export formats | PDF, DOCX, HTML, and TXT |
| Clause-level source provenance | When you supply reference documents, Cited sources beside the draft shows which sentences each reference supports; it is never written into the contract. Reviewers still check authority and supporting facts independently |
| Legal advice or compliance certification | Not provided. Lex prepares drafts for a qualified reviewer |
| Plans | $29 Solo Pilot (support-routed), $99 Solo, $149 Small Firm, $179 Growing Firm, $229 Marketplace — per seat, per month |
| Trial | 14 days, no card required |
How It Works
Six steps from document type selection to a finished, export-ready legal draft.
Select from contracts, agreements, NDAs, employment documents, terms of service, and other legal document types. Each type loads a tailored intake form and clause structure.
Upload existing agreements, precedent documents, or templates as references. The AI analyzes their structure, clause patterns, and language to inform the draft it produces.
Fill in party details, key terms, obligations, and special requirements. This makes sure the important parts are captured before drafting starts.
Supply the governing law as drafting context; qualified counsel verifies the applicable law, conventions and resulting wording.
Gixo creates a structured legal first draft with numbered sections and clause scaffolding, writing it section by section with the definitions first and checking its figures against what you supplied. An AI contract review comes with the draft, and reviewers can then refine language clause by clause.
Export the review-ready draft once counsel has checked the wording, structure, and governing context.
Frequently Asked Questions
What should you check when choosing contract redlining software?
Contract redlining software should make the baseline and proposed wording clear before a contract is circulated. In Lex, inspect a manual clause edit or staged Ask Lex proposal, validate its structure and decide whether to apply it. AI clause wording remains a proposal for qualified review; it is not a whole-document legal verdict.
Choose the Word handoff for the document you actually have. A tracked-change DOCX compares the current saved draft with an earlier retained version. For a genuinely retained and mapped imported Word contract, Original-format DOCX with tracked changes preserves the original package for supported edits. Preflight can refuse that original-format export when a change cannot be represented faithfully.
Check the downloaded document in the recipient's Word workflow, including the baseline, changed words, numbering and tables. The visible comparison, structural check and download are separate from legal approval, authority and execution. Inspect the current manual preview and saved-version comparison.
After the draft: review, approval and signature
The AI contract review that comes with the draft sits at the top of the Review tab in Draft checks. Choose the party you act for under Your party: risks that fall on the other party alone then show as information, and Review again for your party runs the review for that side while the earlier findings stay until it finishes. A playbook is judged by meaning and for the playbook's side, and a clause that reaches your fallback position but not your preferred one is shown as a finding for you to accept.
Approval can name up to 10 approvers in order, chosen from people who can edit the document, with two rules: high-risk findings need a person you choose, and a liability cap above an amount you set needs a person you choose. Once approvers are named, the drafter cannot approve, and the next approver is told in Gixo and by email. With none named, approval is a single step.
An approved draft can be sent to up to 10 signers, in order if you choose, with an optional emailed code for each signer and automatic reminders; a certificate records who signed. It is a simple electronic signature, not a qualified one.
Review the change, then choose the Word handoff
Compare earlier saved drafts and preview a bounded manual clause edit or staged Ask Lex proposal. The preview shows before and after wording; validation checks structure and does not decide legal effect.
A tracked-change DOCX compares the current draft with an earlier saved version. When the original DOCX is retained and mapped, Original-format DOCX with tracked changes preserves that package and marks supported Lex edits. When preflight detects an unsupported edit, it refuses that download. Inspect the recipient file before circulating it.
Current source/version checks can require you to refresh the export preview. A delivery receipt identifies the draft and downloaded bytes; user-reported inspection is separate from legal approval and execution.
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