We’ve just launched what I think is our first compelling template—the service agreement template. So what’s next?
I want to ramp up our production of templates. We have to build a library, not just a handful of templates. Soon we start work on our next template, and I’m in discussions regarding what templates should come after that.
What’s at stake is more than just templates. Rational contract drafting requires that drafters have an alternative to heedless copy-and-pasting. I’ve long thought that using highly customizable templates—what Adams Contracts is building—is the only sensible alternative. (Standard forms are fine for cookie-cutter deals, but a mature industry requires more than that.) If we can’t have highly customizable templates, I’m not sure there’s much point in building out other parts of the contract ecosystem.
For example, I propose developing a set of materials for teaching contract drafting in law schools and business schools around the world. But I’m not sure that would make sense if I didn’t have a library of automated templates as a resource for students.
So if you want to create a service agreement for a single transaction or for ongoing transactions, if you want to create a template, or if you want your own further customized version of our automated template, become an Adams Contract customer! (You can do that through our document-assembly platform, here, or through LegalSifter’s Contract Control Program, using Sift credits.) If you’re uncertain whether you need help with service agreements but you know you like our approach, then subscribe to one or more of our templates anyway, just so you have our ear when we decide what templates to work on next. And just to help us make rational contract drafting an option.
