Personal projects
I came across a lot of contract drafting tools, and some of them cost a lot for reasons best known to them. I started playing around to see how they worked, and that’s how Vora came about. I’m not an engineer, so I learned as I went, with a lot of help from AI. I also started Legal Builders’ Bar, where lawyers and law students share the tools they build.
Contract drafting
Vora drafts contracts. You describe the deal in a sentence and it writes the agreement. If you want a clause changed, it changes that clause and leaves the rest alone. There’s also an add-in for Word on the web that brings the changes back as tracked changes. It’s free.
It still has rough edges, so if you find one, tell me. Watch the 30-second video, or read why I built it. Vora is also on Instagram and X as @draftwithvora.
Open VoraContract negotiation
Most of a contract negotiation is deciding what to push on and what to let go, usually with a launch date the business has already promised. So I made a short game about it. You’re the in-house lawyer on a software deal, and the vendor’s lawyer has sent their standard terms.
You negotiate six clauses, from the liability cap to renewal. Pushing back costs days, goodwill or both, and the vendor remembers how you treated them. At the end you see the marked-up contract and a score out of 100. It takes about five minutes and works on a phone.
Play the gameLeaving a contract
Most contracts let you leave early, but it isn’t free. You may still have to pay through the notice period and the lock-in, pay for the rest of a year you’ve been billed for, and pay an exit fee. That can come close to the cost of staying. So I made a calculator that adds it up.
You enter the fees and the exit terms from both drafts, and pick the month you’d give notice. It shows what leaving would cost under each draft, and what staying would cost. What you type stays on your device.
Open the calculatorLiability caps
A cap of “the fees paid in the 12 months before the event” sounds like a year of fees. If something goes wrong in the first month, it can be worth almost nothing, because nothing has been paid yet. So I made a calculator that works out what a cap is worth in any month of the contract.
You enter the fees, when they’re invoiced and paid, and the cap from both drafts. Then you pick the month something goes wrong, and it shows what each cap would be worth. What you type stays on your device.
Open the calculatorData privacy
Reading the DPDP Act is one thing. Applying it is another. So I made a short game. You join a made-up Indian super-app as its first privacy counsel and deal with 18 situations, from the sign-up screen to a data breach. After each one it explains the answer and the section behind it.
It takes about 15 minutes and works on a phone. Read the LinkedIn post about it.
Play the gameContract renewals
I’ve had to negotiate a way out of an auto-renewal that nobody stopped in time. A calendar entry would have been far cheaper. So I made a small tracker. It works out the last day to give notice and puts reminders in your Google or Outlook calendar. Your list stays in your own browser.
I also wrote about auto-renewals on LinkedIn.
Open the tracker
