My wife is a corporate attorney. They pass drafts of contracts around by email using MS word with change tracking enabled.
Some sort of attorney targeted simple revision tracking front end using git would be a mighty step forward.
Some sort of attorney targeted simple revision tracking front end using git would be a mighty step forward.
One question: is there a use case for live group-editing? Same way live code editors work. I have to admit that I'm not super familiar of the workflows in that industry, so I am mostly just designing features the way I would like them to work.
How far along is the product? Have you talked to any lawyers about it?
The MVP is mostly targeted at businesses who have to sign/generate contracts at scale. There's a lot of features for those use cases, and then there's features for users that the parent is talking about (pure contract-drafting).
I have not talked to any lawyers yet. I think the worst part is that I don't even know how good the computer-skills of lawyers are, so... designing features by my competence feels wrong. Since I can design the UI to match the general structure of a contract, there's a lot that I can add to make the user's life easier, but it also adds more for the user to learn.
Most folks don't get started, so congrats on that, but can I say please do talk to some lawyers asap.
I know it is super painful but, believe me, it can save you months if not years of going down the wrong direction.
Here is a blog post we put together to show how to get in touch with people to interview:
https://blog.nugget.one/2016/09/21/case-study-how-i-got-25-c...
Apologies for the unsolicited advice :)
My understanding of the workflow is that they will send a clean copy as well as the redline to each other. Sometimes someone will in response further modify the wrong copy, and send back, which causes problems as it becomes unclear what was accepted and what was not and someone has to manually go through and check things. I hear that complaint come up - so I know there is at least one pain point involved.
http://thomsonreuters.com/en/products-services/legal/large-l...
that said it doesn't look all shiny and new.