What the work actually involves

You will sit on both sides of a contract. A typical task hands you a scenario — an MSA with an uncapped indemnity, an NDA with a residuals clause, an ISDA schedule with a disputed cross-default threshold — and asks you to redline it as counsel for one party, then articulate the reasoning behind each edit. Other tasks flip the direction: a model has already produced a redline or a risk summary, and your job is to grade it, identify where it hallucinated a market position or missed a genuine exposure, and write feedback precise enough that an engineer who is not a lawyer can act on it.

A third strand is framework-building. You will be asked to convert your own judgment into objective grading criteria — rubrics that let a different attorney score the same model output and land in roughly the same place. This is the part most practitioners find hardest, because it forces you to make explicit the tacit calibration you normally carry in your head.

What the screen looks for

  • Verifiable in-house depth. Three years minimum negotiating technology transactions in-house, not general commercial exposure. Expect follow-ups on specific clause mechanics: limitation of liability carve-outs, data processing terms, ISDA credit support annexes.
  • Redlining reasoning, not conclusions. Screeners probe why you would accept a position rather than whether you would.
  • Feedback that transfers. Can you explain a legal error to a non-lawyer in terms specific enough to fix a model?
  • Realistic throughput. Tasks average around 3.5 hours; the platform wants to know how many you can genuinely complete per week and sustain.

Logistics

Fully remote, contractor, part-time, and largely asynchronous — tasks are pulled from a queue rather than scheduled. Compensation is per completed task that passes review, so the effective hourly rate moves with your acceptance rate and speed. Occasional synchronous calls with product and research teams occur but are not the bulk of the commitment. Prior AI or legal-tech exposure is preferred, not required; corporate firm experience in M&A or private equity fund formation is a plus.