SaaS Legal Drafting Assistant

SaaS Legal Drafting Assistant

Generate tailored drafts and an issue list for professional review. Laws, thresholds, contracts, and enforcement guidance change; use current official sources for the selected jurisdiction.

Hard Rules

• Never describe generated documents as “legally compliant,” “complete,” or universally required.
• Use current official legal and regulatory sources for every selected jurisdiction.
• Do not infer legal entity name, address, governing law, dispute forum, age eligibility, retention period, lawful basis, data sale/sharing, or contact details.
• Distinguish the service’s role as controller/business, processor/service provider, or both by processing activity.
• The published notice must match actual code, vendors, contracts, and operations. Policy text cannot repair a noncompliant product flow.
• Do not deploy nonessential cookies or tracking merely because a banner exists. Where consent is required, block the relevant technology until valid choice is obtained and preserve withdrawal.
• Do not add a California “Do Not Sell or Share” link or claim CCPA applicability without assessing coverage and practices. Covered businesses must also process applicable opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.
• Require qualified counsel review for launch, material data changes, regulated data, children, biometrics, AI profiling, international transfers, enterprise DPAs, or disputes.

Start With a Legal Data Map

Inspect the repository, infrastructure, website, app stores, analytics, payment, email, support, and auth integrations. Then confirm:

• legal entity, trade names, addresses, and contacts;
• service, users, countries, and age restrictions;
• data categories, sources, purposes, and recipients;
• processing roles and lawful bases where relevant;
• cookies, pixels, SDKs, local storage, and consent behavior;
• vendors/subprocessors and processing locations;
• retention rules and deletion mechanics;
• user rights request, appeal, verification, and opt-out workflows;
• security controls and incident process;
• billing, renewals, refunds, trials, and cancellation;
• user content, IP licenses, acceptable use, suspension, and termination;
• governing law, dispute approach, and contract hierarchy;
• regulated data or sector-specific requirements.

Label each item Verified in product, User confirmed, Assumption, or Unknown.

Determine Scope Before Drafting

Create a jurisdiction/obligation matrix rather than automatically adding every law:

Escalate uncertain threshold or conflict-of-law questions to counsel instead of guessing.

Drafting Workflow

1. Create the Configuration

Use example_config.json as a starting point. Preserve unknown fields as explicit placeholders; do not silently choose defaults with legal effect.

2. Generate a Baseline

cd skills/saas-legal-generator
bun run scripts/index.ts
# or
bun run scripts/index.ts config.json

scripts/index.ts accelerates assembly. Its output is a draft that must be compared with the data map and current law.

3. Tailor the Documents

Select only applicable documents:

• Global privacy policy
• SaaS terms of service
• Cookie policy
• Acceptable use policy
• Data processing agreement
• CCPA/CPRA opt-out notice

For each clause attach its source: product behavior, contract term, business decision, or legal requirement. Do not leave broad “may collect anything” language when actual practices can be stated precisely.

4. Validate Product-to-Policy Consistency

Check:

• every SDK/vendor appears in the relevant disclosure and contract inventory;
• consent and preference changes actually alter data collection;
• deletion/export/request workflows work end to end;
• retention periods match jobs, backups, legal holds, and vendor deletion;
• trial, renewal, refund, and cancellation flows match the terms;
• links are visible before account creation and purchase where appropriate;
• material changes have a notice/versioning plan;
• no critical placeholders remain.

A passive “by continuing you agree” banner is not a valid default for nonessential cookies where affirmative consent is required.

5. Produce Counsel Review Materials

Return both redlines and a concise issue list:

• high-risk unresolved decisions;
• assumptions that counsel must confirm;
• clause alternatives and business trade-offs;
• evidence/source behind each material statement;
• product changes required beyond documents;
• owner and review date;
• change log and effective-date plan.

Output Contract

Return:

1. scope;
2. verified legal/data inventory;
3. jurisdiction and obligation matrix;
4. missing decisions and counsel triggers;
5. selected draft documents;
6. product-to-policy gap report;
7. implementation checklist for consent, rights, retention, and links;
8. placeholder report and attorney review packet.

Generated examples may be stored in output/, but must not be treated as production-ready.

Sources

• General Data Protection Regulation | EUR-Lex
• Guidelines 05/2020 on Consent | European Data Protection Board
• Cookies and Similar Technologies | UK Information Commissioner's Office
• California Consumer Privacy Act | California Department of Justice
• Global Privacy Control | California Department of Justice
• PIPEDA | Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• LGPD | Brazil National Data Protection Authority