Open-sourcing legal templates to make legal documents free for 400m small businesses around the world. Git enabled collaboration and smart features for input fields and clause selection. AI Co-Pilot in the works.
Hey ProductHunt community,
I'd love to hear what you think about GitLaw.
GitLaw offers free, open-source legal templates with Git-powered collaboration and version control.
We have over 300 documents today and hope to receive many more. Employment contracts, NDAs, SaaS agreements, Privacy Policies etc - all free.
Docs exist - why GitLaw?
- Existing templates are often low quality and cost money.
- Using Git, we’re enabling the community to build "open standards" together.
- Smart input fields that automatically fill in the contract fields and simple on/off or variant selection for clauses makes it simple to customize and use templates on GitLaw
- A private workspace for your documents (we’ve got a lot more stuff to build here)
Isn’t AI coming to eat legal?
- Well, yes. People already use tools like ChatGPT to generate docs. But the general consensus is that while LLMs are amazing - trusted templates are a much more reliable base.
- AI presents a significant opportunity to help people *use* legal templates - but a template repository is a helpful foundation. We believe the time is right for GitLaw to exist.
- Our plan is to add a Co-Pilot in the future - an AI chatbot to act as a quasi paralegal to help summarize or adapt documents. We also think AI agents can help make legal documents much faster/easier to create / review / sign.
How is GitLaw going to make money?
- Everything we have will remain free.
- Once server costs start to add up we might add a paid option for additional features - for example - the latest LLM models for a small monthly fee and referring lawyers through a marketplace when a human is needed.
We’ve built this as a fun side project with no funding.
Love the fact you’re catering to the SME end of the legal market Nick. Congrats on the launch.
As I'm building out my new business I was just thinking how overwhelmed I was trying to figure out what legal docs I needed to get and from a trusted source. It can get pricey to round all of them up. Will definitely be using this resource. Thanks for launching GitLaw!
Very cool. The video deserves way more than 7 views. Open source legal docs with a nice editor is very underrated here! 🔥
Looks great @nickholzherr I would have found this so useful in the past when bootstrapping side projects/companies and definitely will be using it in future 👏
This is exactly what I needed!
Been copying random contract templates and praying they're legit for my design work. Love that it's open source - means actual lawyers are keeping these docs updated, not just some random template site. Quick q - for those variant clauses, does it explain which ones you actually need? Got burned last time because my contract didn't cover revisions properly 😅
@nickholzherr really great product idea and I love the mission.
I am curious about a few things - are these documents regionally biased? Ie: geared at US / Canadian / International remote employees?
Also - let's presume I already have legal docs (Privacy policy) but I want to cross reference it with other docs or upload and have it reviewed against the docs you've got in the repo - is the a feasible use case with the current build?
This is incredible! Making legal docs accessible and collaborative is truly impactful.
Congrats on making legal docs more accessible! How will you ensure the templates are up-to-date with the latest laws in each region?
