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Never Redlining a Doc Again
in private equity, we waste hours editing NDAs manually. it’s mostly boilerplate: kill the residuals clause, fix governing law, shorten the term, add the return clause.
i got tired of opening Word every time, so i built something that takes a .docx and returns a redlined version — fully marked up, like a lawyer did it. just a local script + llm + a playbook of what we always fix.
surprised it didn’t exist in this form already. works well enough that i haven’t redlined manually in weeks.
sharing here in case others are doing the same thing (or have done it better). curious how people are automating doc work internally.
-- samuel
- ohyeaaa 1y agoTell me ab it. My firm outsources this to Pakistan.
- oneplusoneis 1y agoLol. There are teams that do this. I'm MM and do it, we send them 100s a day. I wonder how Blackstone and big boys like them do it. Anyways, what's the solution like? Just AI doing it?
- SamuelKatsaros 1y agoyeah — it’s a script that extracts raw text from .docx, feeds it into gpt-4 with a structured system prompt (playbook-style rules), parses the diffs, and rebuilds the doc with tracked changes using docx. just input → process → redline.
- bigyabai 1y agoOutsourcing liability work sounds like an administrative landmine.
- SamuelKatsaros 1y agobuilt >>> redline.rocks <<< redlines docs in seconds