Spellbook

Draft & review contracts 10x faster with AI.

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Toronto techweek panel at Spellbook's office. 🇨🇦🚀

@elizahvlediani - @chexymoney
@a_shafik - @venncanada
@jmwind - @SpellbookLegal
@MattMayers1 - @SpellbookLegal

[Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind]

Very stoked about my next adventure. I’ve joined Spellbook, but not as CTO.

I’m joining as an Executive IC. It probably means different things to different people. It means I'm here to build and be hands on in every part of the company.

I've invested and been advising and getting to know @scottastevenson and the team for more than a year. At some point it became obvious the most useful thing I could do was stop talking about ideas and go work with the team.

With AI making code cheap to copy, what's going to be hard to copy is the shape of a company. How a team learns, decides, and ships. That's what I want to work on. It's what I've spent the last three decades learning to do.

Why Spellbook? The world has entered into one of the largest investment cycles in decades. Trillions of dollars are being deployed into energy, AI, manufacturing, transportation and the modernization of critical global systems. Despite this, progress still moves at the speed of contracts. Spellbook’s mission is to modernize the $1 trillion transactional legal market so the contract system can keep pace with the global economy.

At the same time, every contract ever signed is becoming searchable, comparable, and weaponizable by counterparties, regulators, and plaintiffs' lawyers. You will be attacked.

We're hiring. Slight bias toward Canada, but remote-friendly for great talent.
DM me.

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Thrilled to welcome @jmwind to the Spellbook team. JML is one of the top technical executives in the world, having worked with Shopify as CTO and Atlassian as VP Engineering, bringing them both to IPO back-to-back.

Over the past year, I’ve been lucky to have him as a mentor and advisor. He is one of the most impressively “30,000 foot view” + “in the weeds” people I’ve ever met. In the same hour he can code a prototype and deliver deep insight about how to scale our culture & process.

This makes him uniquely suited for the role he is pioneering: Executive IC. AI enables people like JML to scale themselves 100x without getting bogged down in layers of management. We aim to write the playbooks for tomorrow, rather than to execute the playbooks of yesterday. We think that org charts will change radically in the next decade, and we want to get far ahead of it.

JML will pioneer the systems that scale our AI-native org, will deliver product and technical insight from decades of experience and help grow myself and our executive team.

I recommend following him if you are curious how AI-native orgs will operate–he is writing a playbook for the decade to come: @jmwind

https://t.co/39bEVPqctO

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Panasonic Automotive North America has selected Spellbook as its AI contracting platform.

If you've tapped a touchscreen, adjusted your climate controls, or connected your phone to your car, there's a good chance Panasonic Automotive built the tech behind it.

They supply infotainment, connectivity, and in-cabin systems to tens of millions of vehicles on the road today.

Spellbook now supports their legal team across supplier agreements, technology licensing, and other commercial contracts. They're one of the fastest-moving teams we've worked with, rebuilding their entire RFP process with agents, cutting approval timelines from three weeks to four days.

Welcome, Panasonic!

[Spellbook @SpellbookLegal]

That’s a wrap on CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) 2026.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth or joined us at one of our events.

See you next year!

[Grace Walker @graceongrid]

Spellbook Athletics, 2026

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Proud to share that Texas A&M University has chosen Spellbook as its AI contracting platform.

Texas A&M is one of the world’s top public research universities, with more than 80,000 students, a global alumni network of 540,000+, and nearly $1.4B in annual research expenditures.

That scale means its team manages a high volume of contracts: research agreements, procurement, and other commercial matters.

Spellbook now helps their team do that work with greater speed and precision.

Welcome, Texas A&M!

[Spellbook @SpellbookLegal]

Introducing Proofread: a review mode built for final-pass contract cleanup.

Proofread runs inside Word and catches the small stuff that’s easy to miss during long reviews:

→ Broken cross-references
→ Definitional inconsistencies
→ Placeholder text and square brackets
→ Internal markup and Note to Draft comments
→ Typos and grammar mistakes

Run it on your next contract as a second set of eyes before signature.

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Introducing Proofread: a new review mode in Spellbook built specifically for final-pass contract cleanup.

In an initial analysis, we found that over 80% of public company contracts filed on EDGAR contain defects.

Broken cross-references, definition inconsistencies, internal markup and grammar mistakes.

Humans brains are not designed to catch a missing letter on page 47 of a commercial lease.

AI is great at this.

We spend a lot of time talking about how AI can make mistakes in law.

But what about all the mistakes humans make that AI could be catching?

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Spellbook's product team shipped an average of 2 updates per week in April:

* iManage Integration
* Playbook Chat Assistant
* Role-Based Access Controls
* Tone & Style Settings Page
* Multi-Step Workflows Update
* File Cards & Rich Text Formatting in Chat
* Shorter Review Comments
* Manage Integrations Without Leaving Word

Read the April Product Spotlight: https://t.co/EaL6GlKviH

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

Spellbook now integrates with iManage.

iManage is trusted by over 1 million legal professionals worldwide. Teams trust it to store their contracts, standards, and a wealth of other legal documents.

We're excited to give our users an easy way to access this context with AI.

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

We’re heading to CLOC Global Institute in Chicago next week.

In-house legal teams are adopting AI faster than we ever expected.

We’ve rolled out Spellbook to many Fortune 100 companies. Legal teams in retail, banking, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and more.

We'll be demoing live what those workflows look like.

[TBPN @tbpn]

Happy Tuesday. On today's show:

- @markgurman (Bloomberg)
- @howietl (Airtable)
- @scottastevenson (Spellbook)
- @awiltschko (Osmo)
- @spirosx (Resolve AI)
- @carolainaguilar (INBRAIN)
- @jakejurewicz (Blue Energy)

See you on the stream.

[Spellbook @SpellbookLegal]

Chris Brown of Pixel Law shares his screen as he reviews a 56-page Asset Purchase Agreement using Spellbook.

See how Spellbook can help you:

→ Flag legal issues within a contract
→ Surface unknown risks
→ Draft clauses like Indemnification and Reps & Warranties

Chris also shares how he uses Spellbook for a "second opinion,” and why he believes AI will change the practice of law.

Time stamps:

- What contract review looked like before AI
- The document being reviewed
- High-level risk overview
- Diving into indemnification
- Non-compete analysis and Florida law
- Breaking down the purchase price
- Reps and warranties review
- Running the same prompt twice
- Closing deliveries and what's missing
- Catching missing terms across the document
- Compare to Market feature
- What stood out most from the process
- When to trust AI vs. your own judgment
- How to get started with AI tools

[Spellbook @SpellbookLegal]

Spellbook now integrates with @onedrive .

By connecting your OneDrive document libraries directly to Spellbook, you can use previous agreements as instant context for drafting and review.

Once linked, these folders become live resources for your entire team—allowing you to search, cite, and reference your team’s negotiating history without ever leaving Word.

No more manually uploading documents or digging through folders.

Just the right context, right where you work.

[Grace Walker @graceongrid]

🌕🧑‍🚀

“I wonder how many contracts that took?”

New microsite for @SpellbookLegal exploring the approximately 5,000 (!!!) contracts involved in a crewed mission like Artemis II.

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

It took an estimated 5,000 legal contracts to launch Artemis II.

Engineering is cool, but don't forget the lawyers :)

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

On Tuesday, Spellbook was recognized as the fastest growing company in Canada out of 400 nominees, at the Built in Canada awards by @build_canada.

So proud of this team and excited to carry on the mission to build prosperity in Canada through ambition and optimism.

Amazing talent density in the room--was great to finally meet @harleyf and @mkatchen, two people that have inspired us to build at scale here.