Today we're launching @SpellbookLegal's biggest thing yet: Autonomous Contract Management It’s the first end-to-end AI infrastructure for contracts The world is speeding up. We are in one of the biggest investment cycles in decades. Behind every rocket launch, FIFA game, and datacenter, lies a web of hundreds of agreements. Agreements are the invisible threads that allow us to work together. We have infrastructure for finance (Stripe, Ramp), eCommerce (Shopify) and many business functions. But agreement infrastructure is lacking. This creates a painful bottleneck on our ability to work together. Online purchases take milliseconds. But agreements still take weeks. CLMs were supposed to be the answer, but were designed in a pre-AI era. AI fundamentally changed how computers can accelerate agreements. Spellbook is the most used AI contract review tool in the world, with ~5,000 customers in 80 countries Now we are expanding to deliver the first end-to-end, AI native stack for contracts. From the moment a deal lands in your inbox, to the day it renews years later, Spellbook’s AI supports teams every step of the way, across all business teams. It runs 24/7. While you sleep, it's reading the deals that came in overnight, flagging the parts that actually need a lawyer, and clearing the busywork that used to kill mornings. Nothing gets handed off between systems or slips after signature, and the intelligence stays with you for the life of the contract. AI for lawyers is great. There are 20 million lawyers in the world, and many are our users. But there are billions who touch contracts. We're excited to help everyone move faster and do more of what they love, by building the best AI-powered contract infrastructure in the world. Get early access: spellbook.com/acm

Getting a team to deeply intuit more than one dashboard is a fantasy No one ever has time to look at the secondary dashboards It takes a lot of discipline to get a team to really feel the pulse of even one dashboard Make one, make it good and do weekly readouts as a team

> sometimes folks try very hard to hide it, but you can still tell, because suddenly their essence gets smeared and you detect an alien presence

Agree, one of my favourites

I think "everything should happen in public channels" is very bad & idealistic Slack advice. Everyone's context window is completely blown out. Too many opinions makes work diluted and worse. There needs to be some degree of isolation between teams and work streams. Email was a whole other world, where adding any person took effort. I think this made us much more thoughtful about what we put in our team's context window.

J types prefer efficient, clear structure, deterministic reasoning and empirical closure with definitive answers. P types are much more comfortable interacting with the world more intuitively and probabilistically, based on fuzzy hunches, adapting their plans as probabilities shift. J types don’t like Myers Briggs because it seems too fuzzy to be useful. It falls below their signal-to-noise threshold. It feels too loose, qualitative and subjective.

End of an era

Bad times are good times:

Insecurity is self-sustaining in that it causes us to mimic surface level behaviors for acceptance rather than improving our underlying self Every moment we spend doing insecure mimicking rather than building ourself is a lost investment. A temporary bandaid to avoid discomfort rather than building muscle. This can spiral for years. The more we invest in surface level appearances, the harder it is to tear off the costume and to work on our authentic self and show it to the world. The reality of this is so tragic that most people just don’t acknowledge it. The spiral can consume entire lives. Do not build your life on mimicry for acceptance, it’s a sand castle that will eventually fall.

Every time someone says “I used Claude to check / edit this piece” I groan inwardly. It inevitably means that several segments of the essay will have strong AI writing stench. Folks, don’t do this. You think it’s making your piece better. It’s not.

Raising my INTP bat signal

For clarity, we offered the best security: store absolutely nothing

In October 2022 I wrote "What Github Copilot Means for Lawyers". "Maybe AI-powered lawyering is finally here this time." There's an interesting kind of being wrong in tech, where you are right, but still wildly underestimating what is about to happen--eg. directionally correct but underestimating the length of the vector. That's how I feel looking back. blog.scottstevenson.net/p/wh…

We launched Spellbook without any database/persistence or real auth. You are probably not thinking scrappy enough about your MVP.

There’s a growing class of post-money people in SF who want a fake job so that they can have status at AI dinner parties

Oh you’re an INTJ? That means you think Myers Briggs is fake pseudoscience. Checkmate…

Spellbook launched on Replit 3 years ago, using the built in auth for Word and no database. On track to cross 100M ARR this year Make something people want. Nothing else matters

get on this rocketship while you can

Seeking elite poasters: We're hiring Spellbook's first social media lead. This person will work closely with me and our marketing team to scale the function. Apply or shoot me a DM if interested: jobs.ashbyhq.com/spellbook.c…

Me asking OC to just accept all my redlines