Your agents are
making decisions.
Are they defensible?
We provide licensed attorney review at machine speed, with documented judgment and a signed attorney record for every significant agent action.
SaaS Agreement: Norwick Analytics Inc.
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Your board has a question.
Most GCs don't have an answer.
Autonomous agents are executing contracts, processing procurement, and making compliance decisions right now. The legal infrastructure to govern them does not exist yet.
"When your autonomous agent makes a mistake (and eventually one will). Who is liable? What did your legal team do to prevent it? Show me the paper trail."
- Privilege is not automaticAgent-generated analysis on its own does not carry attorney-client privilege. Structuring review through licensed counsel is the established mechanism for supporting privilege, but it requires the right engagement structure and independence.
- Regulators are naming human oversight requirementsThe EU AI Act (in force August 2024, broadly applicable August 2026) requires human oversight for high-risk AI systems. US financial regulators including the OCC and FINRA are issuing guidance on AI model governance. HIPAA-covered entities face scrutiny on automated clinical decisions. These are named obligations, not hypothetical risk.
- Insurance coverage depends on what you can showE&O and cyber policies are increasingly conditioning coverage on documented human review of significant automated decisions. Companies without a documented record face harder conversations at claims time.
- No governance framework exists yetNo industry standard defines what responsible agent deployment looks like. Most companies are designing their own, or hoping nothing goes wrong before one emerges.
The problem is not that agents make bad decisions. The problem is that agent decisions, however analytically sound, are not privileged, not auditable to a human, and not defensible in litigation or to a regulator. The gap is not intelligence. It is the signature.
Attorney certification
at machine speed.
Your agent does the analysis. Our certified attorney network does what only a licensed attorney can do: review, certify, and sign.
Submit
Your agent completes its analysis and submits via API: the document, risk assessment, flagged items, and recommended action. Structured intake. Fixed price quoted upfront. Funds escrowed automatically.
Structured JSON · EscrowedCertify
A licensed attorney in our network reviews the agent's analysis, exercises independent professional judgment, and concurs or amends. The engagement is structured to support privilege where applicable.
Licensed · Privileged · TimestampedAct
Your agent receives an auditable, attorney-reviewed certification and proceeds. Every flag, condition, and attorney judgment call is logged in a structured, immutable record.
Auditable · Documented · DefensibleWhere certification matters most.
Any agent action that creates legal exposure, triggers a regulatory obligation, or needs to survive a board question benefits from certified review.
Contract Execution
Procurement agents reviewing and executing vendor agreements, SaaS contracts, and NDAs. Attorney review creates a documented decision chain and is structured to support privilege.
Pre-Action Clearance
Agents checking jurisdiction-specific compliance before acting: data collection, marketing communications, financial transactions. Structured question, structured answer, fully logged. Designed to satisfy documented human oversight requirements where they apply.
Regulatory Defensibility
Financial agents operating under OCC, FINRA, or SEC guidance where model governance and human oversight documentation are expected. Certification creates the paper trail regulators ask for in examinations.
Hiring & Contractor Actions
HR agents initiating offer letters, contractor agreements, and IP assignments. Employment law varies significantly by jurisdiction. Attorney review surfaces exposure before it becomes a claim.
Data Processing Review
Agents handling personal data across GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA regimes. The EU AI Act's human oversight requirements for high-risk systems (broadly applicable August 2026) make documented review increasingly important for covered deployments.
Audit-Ready Decision Logs
When a decision is questioned in litigation or regulatory examination, the certified record is your starting point, not a reconstruction from scattered email threads. Every matter produces a structured, immutable log.
The questions GCs ask first.
We designed the engagement structure with these questions in mind. If something below raises a follow-up, that is exactly the conversation we want to have.
Who is the client?
The attorney-client relationship is between the licensed attorney and your organization, not the platform, not the agent. The platform routes and structures the engagement. The legal relationship is direct.
How is privilege handled?
Engagements are structured to support attorney-client privilege where it applies, consistent with ABA guidance on lawyer accountability and confidentiality safeguards. Privilege depends on the specific circumstances of each engagement.
How are conflicts checked?
Automated conflict screening runs against each firm's client database before any matter is accepted. Conflicted matters are declined or rerouted before attorney review begins. Firms maintain their own conflicts records; the platform does not aggregate across firms.
How is independence preserved?
Network attorneys are employed by their own firms, not by the platform. The platform routes work and structures intake and output formats. Professional judgment, engagement decisions, and attorney accountability remain with the licensed attorney and their firm, consistent with Model Rule 5.4.
Which jurisdictions do you cover?
Network attorneys are currently barred in New York, Delaware, California, and Illinois, covering the majority of US enterprise contract and compliance matters. International coverage and additional US jurisdictions are added as the network grows. Jurisdiction is matched at submission. Out-of-coverage matters are flagged before any fee is charged.
How is client data handled?
Submitted documents and matter data are encrypted in transit and at rest. Data is not used to train models or shared across clients. Retention periods are configurable. For regulated industries, BAA and DPA agreements are available on request.
Four documents most
companies don't have yet.
Most companies deploying agents have thought carefully about the technology. The governance documentation hasn't kept up. Our advisory engagements deliver these four documents in 30 days, giving your organization a considered, documented posture before it needs one.
For teams building agentic products or deploying third-party autonomous systems, OpenEsq advises on architectural governance.
Schedule a Conversation- 01
Agent Deployment Risk Register
Every agent action mapped against liability exposure, regulatory frameworks, and current oversight gaps.
- 02
Agent Authorization Matrix
Clear policy defining what each agent can do autonomously, what requires human approval, and escalation thresholds.
- 03
Counterparty Notice Language
Standard contract language disclosing autonomous agent involvement, ready for immediate adoption across all vendor agreements.
- 04
Incident Response Playbook
Agent-specific protocol for the first 24 hours: privilege preservation, regulatory notification, evidence chain management.
Building the standard
before it is mandated.
Every significant technology transition produces a compliance standard. PCI-DSS for payments, SOC 2 for SaaS, HIPAA for health data. The agent economy needs its own.
We are not waiting for regulators to define what responsible agent deployment looks like. We are building the institutional knowledge, transaction data, and certified network that will define it, while the window is still open.
Target turnaround for standard matter types: NDAs, SaaS agreements, compliance checks
Fixed-price, escrowed engagements, no open-ended billing, ever
Certified attorney coverage. Agents don't work 9 to 5, and neither do we
Unstructured email threads. Every matter lives in the audit log, not an inbox
Your agents are acting.
Are you covered?
Request a briefing. We will walk you through what responsible agent deployment looks like, where your current exposure is, and what it takes to make your deployments more defensible.