How much of this is actually built?
How much of this is actually built?
The door, the governing-law picker, the template catalogue, the place pages and
the blog are live on contracts.io. Everything past the
door’s gate — the account, Lex, the room, redlines, guest signing — is designed
and written down, and is not built.Pages describing the unbuilt half say so at the top. The rules on them are
rules the product is built to, not claims about a date.
Does a model read my words before I sign in?
Does a model read my words before I sign in?
No. The homepage is open to the world and nobody is signed in on it, so
nothing on it calls a model. The door does not parse your sentence behind your
back either — it holds what you typed, the files you attached and the law you
picked, and it waits.The model only ever reads your words once there is an account for the work to
belong to. Press send at the door and you get that sentence, not a draft.
Is accepting the same as signing?
Is accepting the same as signing?
No, and the product will not let the two blur. Accepting is agreeing to the
words; signing is a person putting their name to a specific version.
Signatures bind to immutable versions, so a contract can be agreed and
unsigned, and the paper always says which of the two has happened and who did
it.
Does the other side pay, or make an account?
Does the other side pay, or make an account?
No to both. They open the paper in a browser, reply to a clause and put their
name to it — no account, no fee, nothing to install.That is a product rule rather than a pricing tier. Guest signing is being
built; the rule is what the product is built to, and this page is not a claim
about a date.
Can I download a template?
Can I download a template?
No. There is no downloadable file anywhere on contracts.io and no page claims
one exists.Twelve papers are in the library and another 75 kinds are described in the
catalogue. The door itself offers none of them by name — it has no template row
and no recogniser reading your sentence for a kind. The way you get a contract
is to describe it and read what comes back.
How many places can I choose from, and may I choose more than one?
How many places can I choose from, and may I choose more than one?
184, and yes.The catalogue holds 188 legal units; four of them are routers — a country
holding more than one system, which is a heading rather than a choice — so 184
are pickable. More than one is allowed, and the picker says so under the
question, because it is the one thing about the control nobody would guess.
Does contracts.io give legal advice?
Does contracts.io give legal advice?
No. It makes paper. Nothing on the site or in these docs is legal advice, and
the product is built so it cannot drift into pretending otherwise.The clearest case is the place pages: they carry facts sourced from Wikidata,
and they carry no legal-system row at all — not by omission but by proof, since
Wikidata has no property that states one. A row we cannot source does not
render.
What will Lex do without being asked?
What will Lex do without being asked?
Nothing that leaves your screen. Lex is designed to draft, propose changes and
explain clauses, and never to send and never to sign. Every one of those ends
in something a person reads and presses.It also reports rather than interprets: “I found one contract and two
supporting files”, never “I read and understood your documents”.Lex starts after the gate, and nothing past the gate is built yet.
Where do the facts on the place pages come from?
Where do the facts on the place pages come from?
Wikidata, which is CC0, fetched once into a committed file rather than at
request time. Every fact block names the source and links on to Wikipedia.Coverage is uneven and the pages show only what resolved: a place with no
capital on file gets no capital row, and sub-national units borrow language,
currency and time zone from their host country, labelled as such — never
capital or population.