Hire your AI General Counsel

Contract review, compliance, and legal guardrails — on call 24/7.

Updated 2026-04-18

This is a role guide, not an installed employee. It explains what the role owns and how Tycoon runs it. Nothing is hired or activated until you choose it.

What your AI General Counsel does

01Review every inbound contract (MSA, SOW, NDA, DPA) and flag risky clauses with plain-English explanations
02Draft outbound contracts from your standard templates with tailored redlines per counterparty
03Maintain a playbook of acceptable, negotiable, and walk-away terms across contract types
04Generate redlines as counter-proposals with specific replacement language
05Track contract renewals and auto-termination dates across the portfolio
06Answer day-to-day legal questions (can I do this email campaign, is this claim defensible) with citations
07Flag anything above a predefined risk threshold for human attorney review before you sign
08Keep a clean contract vault with every executed agreement tagged and searchable

Workflows on autopilot

Inbound contract review

Reads any incoming contract, produces a one-page memo with three sections: green terms, yellow negotiables with proposed redlines, red deal-breakers. Hands you a one-click sign decision.

Standard doc generation

Drafts NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, IP assignment agreements from your library in under five minutes. Populates party names, dates, fees, and scope from a short chat brief.

Redline counter-proposal

When a counterparty pushes back, generates a redline with specific replacement language and the negotiation talking points for each change.

Renewal watchtower

Weekly scan of contract dates, surfaces renewals and terminations landing in the next 60 days so nothing auto-renews you into a bad deal.

Compliance check

Before you ship a marketing claim, launch in a new state, or change privacy practices, runs a compliance check and flags what needs human review vs what is clearly fine.

Attorney escalation

When stakes exceed preset thresholds (contract value, liability cap, equity) packages the full context for your outside counsel so their hour of work replaces six hours of onboarding.

Without vs With a AI General Counsel

Without

  • You sign MSAs without reading past page three and regret it later
  • NDA requests take three days because you are waiting on a lawyer friend
  • Outside counsel charges $450/hour to draft a template you could reuse
  • A bad auto-renewal clause costs you $24K in year two
  • You stall deals while waiting on legal review

With Tycoon

  • Every contract gets a one-page review with risks flagged before you sign
  • Standard NDAs draft in five minutes from your chat
  • Template library stays warm and only bespoke work goes to outside counsel
  • Renewal watchtower flags every termination window 60 days out
  • Most deals get reviewed in minutes with clear pass/fail rationale

A day in the life of your AI General Counsel

08:15Reviews an incoming MSA from a mid-market prospect. Flags three issues: unlimited liability cap, IP assignment too broad, 90-day payment terms. Drafts redlines for each.
10:00Generates a mutual NDA for a partnership conversation. Pre-populates from the CEO's brief, ready to send in three minutes.
12:30Weekly renewal scan: flags a Zendesk contract auto-renewing in 47 days at 22% increase. Suggests renegotiation track.
15:00Founder asks if a planned pricing page comparison call-out against a competitor is defensible. Answers yes with two citation notes and one suggested softener.
17:00Packages a complex SaaS deal above the attorney threshold, writes the memo for outside counsel, sends the engagement letter.
19:00Closes with a log: 4 contracts reviewed, 1 escalated, 2 signed, 0 lingering questions.

Tools your AI General Counsel uses

PandaDoc or DocuSign for signing workflowsGoogle Drive or Dropbox as the contract vaultIronclad or Concord for CLM if you are above 50 active contractsNotion or Linear for legal tracker and questions logClio or LawMatics if you work with outside counselSlack for fast-turn reviews with youTycoon skill marketplace for NDA generator, contract review, privacy policy, and redline skillsState-specific compliance databases for regulated industries
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.

Is an AI General Counsel actually giving legal advice?

No, and this is the important distinction. The AI General Counsel reads contracts, drafts documents, and flags risks — the same work a paralegal or junior associate does under attorney supervision. For anything that requires a licensed attorney's judgment — actual legal advice, litigation, regulatory filings, bar-restricted work — it escalates to your outside counsel with a clean briefing packet. Most solo founders use the AI General Counsel for 80% of their legal work (contracts, NDAs, routine questions) and keep an attorney on retainer for the remaining 20%. That split saves five figures per year and gets you better attention on what matters.

What contract types does it handle well?

Strongest on standard SaaS contracts: MSAs, SOWs, DPAs, NDAs, SaaS subscription agreements, IP assignments, employment and contractor agreements. Good on licensing, partnership, and reseller agreements. Weaker on M&A docs, venture term sheets, real estate leases, and anything regulated (healthcare, finance, export control) — these should route to specialist attorneys. The AI General Counsel will tell you directly when a contract is outside its comfort zone rather than pretending otherwise.

How does it know what clauses are risky for my business?

You teach it your playbook in the first setup session: acceptable liability caps, preferred IP terms, net-30 vs net-60 payment, walkaway conditions, preferred venue. It also reads your five most recent executed contracts to infer your pattern. Over the first month your corrections ("we never accept unlimited indemnity", "MFN clauses are always a red flag") compound into your playbook. After six weeks most founders report 90%+ accuracy on the first-pass review.

What if the AI General Counsel misses something critical?

Two safeguards. First, every contract above a value or liability threshold is auto-escalated to your outside counsel regardless of the AI review. Second, every review includes a confidence score and a short list of assumptions; when confidence is below 85% on any material clause the AI routes the contract to a human rather than green-lighting it. You can also set categories (anything with a non-compete, anything with equity, anything over $50K) for automatic human review. The goal is a system you can trust, not a shortcut that cuts corners.

Does it replace my law firm?

For most solo founders and teams under 20, it replaces the retainer part — the $2K-$5K/month on standby, mostly unused. Your outside counsel becomes a specialist you engage by project, with a clean briefing packet that cuts their hours by 40-60%. Tyler Tringas and many Earnest Capital founders run exactly this way: AI General Counsel plus a specialist attorney on demand. The total legal spend typically drops 60-80% versus a traditional retainer, and the quality of attention on the hard stuff goes up because the attorney is not drowning in NDAs.

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