Product direction connected to implementation
The work started with a specific contracting problem and expanded into related product areas. Strategy, design, and engineering stayed connected as the scope evolved.
From NDA automation to an AI contracting platform
SimpleDocs helps legal teams manage contracts from request to signature. Telos has helped build it from the start, adding configurable workflows, AI review in Microsoft Word, and intelligence across every agreement.
The partnership
A focused start. A broader product.
SimpleDocs started with NDAs. The goal was to make them easier for legal teams and the people who rely on them. Telos helped build that first product, AutoNDA, and then worked on the contract management features that came after it.
As the product grew, it took on other parts of the same problem. Lawyers wanted to review documents in the tools they already used. Businesses needed to know what was in the contracts they held. And enterprise customers needed SimpleDocs to work with their identity systems, access rules, and regional requirements.
Telos's role grew to match. The team has worked on product strategy, experience design, application development, integrations, and AI engineering. Jordan Trevino, Telos's founder, is also SimpleDocs's co-founder and CTO, so SimpleDocs gets his technical leadership along with Telos's product, design, and engineering team.
How the platform grew
Each stage introduced a new kind of work
The first product brought NDA requests, agreement preparation, approvals, signatures, and storage into a connected process. The platform then expanded to support custom templates and more varied contracting requirements.
SimpleAI introduced playbook-based review, document questions, drafting, and redlining inside Word. Related work brought AI capabilities to Law Insider's users, with an experience connected to their existing legal research workflows.
Repository intelligence added document imports, extracted fields, search, and AI-assisted analysis. Further work connected agreements with their amendments, renewals, and related documents.
Integrations, workspaces, regional deployments, and identity controls supported broader organizational use. Prompt versioning and evaluations gave the engineering team a structured way to assess changes to AI behavior.
Product, design, and engineering
What Telos contributed
Experiences built around actual work
The product reaches users through web workflows, Microsoft Word, business systems, and contract repositories. Each experience supports a different part of the agreement lifecycle.
Engineering that supports the next stage
The partnership includes the infrastructure behind the interface: permissions, integrations, document processing, regional routing, and the tools used to evaluate AI changes.
The projects
Eight projects within one continuing partnership
Explore the problems, product decisions, and engineering behind SimpleDocs. Each case focuses on a distinct part of the platform.
From NDA requests to configurable workflows
Connect intake, approvals, negotiation, and signatures in a contracting process legal teams can configure.
AI review inside Microsoft Word
Help lawyers apply review guidance, ask questions, and work through suggested edits in the document itself.
Evidence for contract negotiations
Compare language with relevant precedents and Law Insider data to support review and drafting decisions.
Connected products
The relationship between SimpleDocs, SimpleAI, and Law Insider
SimpleDocs combines contract workflows with a repository. SimpleAI is the AI tool inside Microsoft Word that these case studies cover. Telos also helped build AI features for Law Insider, using Law Insider's legal research platform and contract data.
The case studies show what Telos built and where the products overlap. Law Insider's underlying research corpus remains an important, separately attributable part of that story.
Contract platform and Word add-in
The Word add-in · SimpleDocs skin
Partner skin and research corpus
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