Highlights
- Document drafting produces documents from your firm's own library of clauses, by hand, from a template or from a brief the AI plans, ready to export as Word or PDF.
- Admins choose which models each area of the workspace uses, the default, and whether members can change it.
- Four example drafting libraries to download and import, from a feature tour to a commercial lease.
- Documents from your drafting templates through the API or as a workflow step, on the Automation plan.
- Document drafting is included on the Professional and Automation plans.
Our biggest update since launch brings document drafting to Ferrith Chat: documents assembled from your own library of clauses, by hand, from a template or from a brief. Admins also gain control over which models each area of the workspace uses, and there are example libraries to start from.
What's new
Document drafting
Produce a document from your workspace's library of building blocks: the clauses and paragraphs your firm already uses, each knowing the questions it needs answered. The words always come from your library. The AI can choose blocks and read facts from a brief, but it never writes your document's text. See Drafting.
- Three ways to start. Use a template your firm has fixed, build the document yourself by ticking the blocks, or Ask the AI: describe the document in a few sentences and it proposes the blocks, with a reason for each, and fills in the facts it can quote from your brief. Nothing takes effect until you continue, and Ask about this plan suggests anything you might have missed. The AI runs on your workspace's own model infrastructure; a brief is never sent to a third party.
- Answer once. One form asks every question the document needs, with your firm's standard answers already filled in. Answers save as you type, and a history shows every change.
- Assembled for you. Clauses, schedules and parts are numbered, sub-paragraphs can follow legal numbering (3.3.1, then (a)), and cross-references stay right when clauses move. Section headings can carry their numbers ("3. Letting and rent") at the size you choose. A document can carry a header and footer with page numbers, your logo, a cover on a page of its own, and schedules that each start a new page.
- Review and share. Mark a document reviewed, or ask the document type's named reviewers through their inbox; a document type can require a review before export. Drafts are private until you share them with the workspace or with chosen people and roles.
- Export to Word, PDF or Markdown, or save the Word document straight to your documents, ready to attach to a conversation.
- For document authors. Members with the new author documents permission, and admins, maintain the library: questions with your firm's defaults, building blocks with conditions and repeats, document types, templates, and tests that measure how well the AI picks blocks. Write a block with forms or in an editor that checks it as you type and previews it with sample answers, and ask the AI to improve a clause's wording. The block language reference covers everything a block can do.
- Move a library between workspaces. Export a document type with everything it uses and import it into another workspace, or build a library file yourself from the published format.
Also new
- Ferrith Chat. On the workspace details page, admins choose for each area (chat, agents, workflows, analysis grids, drafting and the API) which models members may use, the default, and whether members can change it. The chat page's model picker, the agent, workflow and grid screens and the API all follow it, and where an area allows a choice, agent authors can pick an agent's model again. The page itself is reorganised into clearer sections.
- Ferrith Chat. A workflow can now produce a document from a drafting template: a draft step takes its answers from the step before, with no AI involved, and still waits for a review when the template asks for one.
- Starter templates. Four example drafting libraries, a feature tour, a will, a non-disclosure agreement and a commercial lease, to download from Starter templates and import into your workspace. Each is marked as an example and is not suitable for real-world use.
- API. Produce documents from your drafting templates: list the templates a key may use, read one's questions, and post the answers to receive the document as Word and PDF in a single call. Two new key scopes cover it; see document templates. Admins can also limit which models API keys may use.
- Plans. Document drafting is part of the Professional and Automation plans, and the document templates API is part of Automation. Current inclusions are on the pricing page.
Changes to be aware of
- Word documents you download, whether chat answers, workflow outputs or drafts, are now A4 pages with 2 cm margins, matching the PDFs. Until now Word chose its own page size, often US Letter.
- Headings in PDF and Word downloads now look the same in both: one set of sizes, in black. Headings in PDFs are smaller than before, and in Word they are no longer blue.
- Our support and sales mailboxes are now support@ferrith.com and sales@ferrith.com.
Fixed
- Text typed or pasted into a code editor, such as a workflow's YAML, in the moment before saving is now always saved.
- A heading that starts with a number, such as "1. Introduction", now keeps its number as written in Word downloads, as it does in PDFs, rather than Word renumbering it.