Why?

On the one hand, Bracketeer qualifies as a kind of light full-document automation, because it requires very little preparation to be done within the documents (most templates can be used as-is), and can be learned in a few minutes.

On the other hand, Bracketeer complements traditional full-document automation, such as Clause9 and ClauseBuddy's Smart Templates. It allows legal teams to limit traditional full-document automation modules to structural parts that require intensive editing, and leave the numerous detailed changes to Bracketeer.

For example, corporate transaction documentation and finance documentation often consist of more than 50 pages, with hundreds if not thousands of options. In a traditional full-document automation approach, template authors would have to create questions to cover all of those individual options.

• This easily leads to questionnaire fatigue with end-users.

• In addition, with traditional full-document automation, end-users may suffer from question dissonance, because a certain option may concern such a small detail that the associated question would be quite long or detailed.

When using Bracketeer, template authors can deliberately decide to leave square brackets and highlights within the document that is generated by the system. With the help of Bracketeer, end-users can easily implement hundreds detailed decisions, across the entire document, in a user-friendly way.

• This avoids questionnaire fatigue, because users don't have to answer a question for each and every detail.

• This also avoids question dissonance, because end-users can immediately decide which option to choose when seeing that option within the context of the document, instead of as a separate question.

Example

By way of a concrete example, have a look at the 30 calendar days highlighted below:

This option does not represent a major drafting decision that will affect many different paragraphs at once. Instead, it concerns details, of which hundreds can be found in a long legal document.

If you would have to formulate a question for it, you would probably have to give a lot of context to the end-user (e.g., "Number of days granted to the existing shareholders to submit a claim in case of misrepresentation or warranty breach that was notified by an investor?"). Such question easily takes up half a paragraph, while many legal practitioners will be able to immediately decide whether to change the default number 30 when seeing the context.