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Solutions
By firm size or type: New, Growing & Boutique Firms
Smarter Drafter delivers immediate results for firms just starting out. Learn more...Mid & Major Firms
Transform how knowledge is shared and utilised within your firm. Learn more...By feature: Instruction
Reshape your client engagement and move instruction-taking online. Learn more...Assembly
Create complex legal documents in a fraction of the time. Learn more...Complete in MS Word
Complete the final version in an environment you know. Learn more...eSignature
Send documents for eSigning with just a few clicks. Learn more...Save
Combine document automation with document management. Learn more...Build Your Own
Automate your existing precedents with Smarter Drafter's BYO functionality. Learn more...Clause Bank
Clause Bank from Smarter Drafter delivers a centralised repository of clauses, with AI-enabled search so every team member has access to accurate and approved legal language. Learn more... -
Precedents
Specialist
Access precedents dedicated to your specific practice area via Smarter Drafter content partners.Build Your Own
Automate your existing precedents with Smarter Drafter’s BYO capability. - Resources
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With the lawyer always in the loop
Move beyond tedious and inconsistent document assembly. Smarter Drafter is a complete document automation platform developed for established firms that have already invested in their own precedents, but want the power of automation.
Precedents and Legal Documents that meet your needs
Smarter Drafter offers an automated precedent solution for firms of any size or focus.
Unlock the power of automation within your firm
Smarter Drafter offers a solution specifically for established firms that have already invested in their own precedents,
but want the power of automation.
Built to Scale
Automation that meets the needs of even the largest firm
Centralised Management
Standard ‘approved’ document parts, including address blocks, sign offs and payment terms, can be maintained centrally and updated globally.
Analyse Everything
From document usage down to individual fields everything in Smarter Drafter can be reported on. Export ‘transactional’ data to CSV to see usage heat maps or learn trends pertaining to specific data field.
Customised Automation
Place your expertise in the hands of everyone creating client-facing documents
Built-in Guidance
Add unparalleled end-user access to partner-level guidance throughout the document assembly process. Include text, image and video advice at every step, offering a transformative experience ensuring end-users make informed decisions and achieve superior document outcomes.
Focus On What Is Important
Build forms that dynamically adapt to the end user’s responses. By intelligently skipping irrelevant sections, client documents are faster to produce and easier to review.
Match Every Scenario
Support a diverse range of input types to cater for every client scenario. Have your Knowledge Team create automations that support a wide range of data needs, including text answers, numbers, phone, email, dates, ABN/ACN, multiple-choice fields, and even file uploads.
No-Code Solution
Accelerate your firm's document automation journey with Smarter Drafter
Point and Click Builder
Remove the need for specialist coding expertise. With Smarter Drafter’s cloud-based no-code visual builder, your existing Knowledge Team can automate even the most complex precedent adding intricate decision trees, calculations and end-user guidance.
Integrated With Microsoft Word
Through tight integration with MS Word, implement a consistent practice-wide style guide for headings, bullets, numbers, columns and more. Smarter Drafter ‘Builder’ functions are delivered within the Word interface via the Smarter Drafter app.
Build a Library of Reusable Automation Objects
Streamline document automation with Smarter Drafter’s reusable Global Forms and Document Snippets. Add standardised questions to any form with Global Forms, and insert consistent content across documents with Document Snippets. Make a single update to any object, and it reflects everywhere—saving time and ensuring accuracy.
Eliminate Re-keying with
the Matter Record
Streamline document workflows by centralising data entry, enabling seamless sharing of information across all client documents and forms.dd automation seamlessly into your legal-tech stack.
Data Pooling
Automatically share matter data across all client documents. Eliminate re-keying by mapping information entered into one document to all subsequent documents, ensuring efficiency and accuracy throughout the process.
Matter Record
Capture and store all key matter information in a central datasheet. The Matter Record is populated via online forms, integrations with Practice Management Systems, or manual entry, making it accessible for all future documents in the case.
Mapping Between Intake and Forms
Link client intake forms directly to document automation. Information entered by clients through instruction forms is automatically mapped to precedents, speeding up document creation and reducing manual data entry.
Embedded in your Workflow
Add automation seamlessly into your legal-tech stack
Automation Everywhere
Embed Smarter Drafter anywhere. Add document assembly to an environment familiar to your end-user. Customise the UI experience to match your brand and tech ecosystem.
Client-Facing Forms
Facilitate digital client interactions by developing online questionnaires. As clients submit information, it is seamlessly passed to your drafting team, minimising manual data entry and ensuring a more efficient document assembly process.
Documents to be proud of
Produce beautifully formatted client-facing, courtroom ready documents that are as easy to read as they are compliant.
Your Brand
Maintain brand consistency by adding your firm’s logos, colours and fonts to both instruction-taking forms and documents.
Your Style
The way you format documents reflects the style of your firm. Implement a consistent practice-wide style guide for headings, bullets, numbers, columns and more.
Courtroom Ready
As our documents are continually updated, they are always courtroom ready.
From Instruction to eSignature
Automation is now an essential component of any firm's legal tech stack.
Instruction
Reshape your client engagement and move instruction-taking online
Invite Your Clients
Why wait for a face-to-face meeting? Have your clients complete an online Q+A on any device. Your clients can provide you with the exact instructions you need for their matter.
Instantly Notified
Stay on top of your client work by being notified as soon as your client has completed the form.
Automatically Populated Forms
Never rekey again. All of the instructions your client has provided are automatically added to document in Smarter Drafter. The pre-population of instruction data will dramatically reduce your drafting time.
Assembly
Create complex legal documents in a fraction of the time
Built-in Guidance
Be taken step-by-step through every document. The online Q+A form dynamically adapts to your answers and prompts you for everything needed to complete the document. Be supported with on-screen prompts, tips and definitions.
Track Your Progress
See exactly where you’re up to. Jump back, move forwards or save and resume at a later stage. Don’t have the information you need? Add a placeholder and pick up drafting from exactly where you left it.
The Right Data, Every Time
Think beyond matter information and integrations with your practice management solution. Smarter Drafter’s online Q+A form checks addresses against Google Maps and ABN details with the Australian Business Registry for absolute accuracy every time. In-built data validation also ensures your dates and calculations are always right.
Complete in Microsoft Word
Complete the final version in an environment you know
Edit in MS Word
Send your first draft straight to MS Word and start editing. The Smarter Drafter Add-In for MS Word, allows you to add any final touches to client documents in an environment you know and trust.
Firm-Wide Clause Bank
From a single sentence to a page of text, create and maintain a firm-wide Clause Bank without ever leaving MS Word. Search, filter and preview to find the clause you need, then one-click insert directly into your document.
Send and Save
When you have completed your edits, simply click to save the final version in Smarter Drafter, file a copy in your practice or document management system and send to your client for eSigning.
eSignatures
Remove the bottleneck of 'wet' signatures
A Complete Solution
Keep all of the contract processing in a single platform. eSignatures can be included as part of your Smarter Drafter subscription.
One-Click Send
Remove the need for printing or exporting to third-party applications. Details of signing parties are directly added to documents produced from Smarter Drafter.
Plug and Play
Smarter Drafter is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing legal tech ecosystem. If your firm already has an eSignature solution, Smarter Drafter can be configured to transfer documents directly.
Save
Combine the best-in-class document automation and document management
PDF, MS Word or Both
All client documents can be reproduced in seconds from the Submissions table. Download a copy in PDF or MS Word or both via a convenient ZIP file.
Send Directly To Your DMS
Maintain client records in a single location. Through seamless integration with your document management system, completed documents can be saved directly to matters.
Secure at every stage
Security matters when working with sensitive client information.
Take security risks off the table with our Australian-hosted solution.
Australian-hosted
ISO Certified
ISO 27001