Claude-native · MCP-first · Entertainment legal

Legal AI with the receipts to back it up.

ContractStudio AI is a contract intelligence platform purpose-built for studios, networks, and production legal. Every answer cites who certified it, what CBA it’s anchored to, and a confidence you can put in front of a studio executive — never a black-box guess.

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Built for entertainment legal teams — theatrical, streaming, television, production.

Deep vertical expertise — built for the way entertainment legal actually works.

Entertainment contracts move at deal speed. Your team needs answers that surface their source — the certified template, the CBA version it’s anchored to, the attorney who attested it — fast enough to use in a live negotiation.

ContractStudio AI is built around the work entertainment legal actually does — talent agreements, production contracts, rights deals — pinned to specific guild CBAs and anchored to a library of attorney-certified templates. Pair that with your studio’s own precedent corpus, and every answer comes back with the provenance to use it in a deal memo: who certified it, against which CBA, with what scope of attestation.

True domain expertise. Two layers, never blended. Provenance on every answer.

Entertainment legal team reviewing contracts

How it works

Two layers of knowledge. Always attributed. Never blended.

ContractStudio AI surfaces two sources of contract intelligence through a Claude-native MCP server and a native web app. Every result tells you which one it came from.

Layer 1 · Certified library

Centrally-maintained, attorney-attested

A shared library of certified entertainment contract templates — talent agreements, production contracts, rights deals — pinned to specific guild CBAs. Each template carries a full attestation chain: who reviewed it, on what date, against which CBA version, and when it’s due for re-attestation.

Reviewing attorney + certification date on every template
CBA version pinning (SAG-AFTRA · DGA · WGA)
Lifecycle states: certified · under_review · re_certified · deprecated
Re-attestation schedule when a new CBA lands

Layer 2 · Studio precedent

Your contracts, processed in your cloud

Your studio’s own historical contract corpus, indexed and queryable inside your own tenant. Search for comparable terms — compensation, territory, term, options — against deals you’ve actually done. Raw contracts never cross the boundary.

Per-studio vector namespace — no cross-tenant leakage
Raw contracts stay in your cloud (SaaS or hybrid)
Only query results cross the API boundary
Audit-redacted at the contract-text level by default

Layers

L1 Certified · L2 Studio — never blended

Attribution

Source layer survives end-to-end

Audit

Append-only, redacted by default

Isolation

Per-tenant vector namespace

What makes us different

Trust before output. On every screen.

Every legal AI claims to be revolutionary. Here are the design rules ContractStudio AI is built around — because in entertainment legal, the answer that lands in the deal memo is the one with provenance.

Built around the certified library, not the LLM hype cycle

Generic legal AI treats every contract the same and cites nothing. ContractStudio AI is anchored to a centrally-maintained library of entertainment-specific templates — each with an attestation chain, CBA pinning, and a lifecycle state. The provenance is the product.

Proof: Every template carries a reviewing attorney, a certification date, and the CBA versions it is anchored to.

Layer attribution that survives every transformation

Layer 1 (the shared certified library) and Layer 2 (your own studio precedent) are different kinds of authority. We never blend them. Every result is tagged with the layer it came from — from vector query through to the final answer.

Proof: Architectural rule, lint-enforced: SynthesizedResponse keeps L1 and L2 strictly separate.

Attorney Override is a primary control, not a feedback icon

Every AI-derived finding has a one-click escape hatch. Flag it, override it, send it for review. The attorney stays in control of the answer that ends up in the deal memo — the AI does the heavy lifting.

Proof: Override is a first-class affordance on every deviation card and every recommendation.

Auditability as a design element, not backend plumbing

Attestation records are browsable. Version histories are navigable. The certification event is visible — who signed off, when, on what CBA. Audit logs are append-only and redacted at the contract-text level by default.

Proof: BigQuery audit trail; QueryLogSanitizer hashes contract text before any audit write.

What you get

An MCP server, a native web app, and a Word plugin.

Use ContractStudio AI from inside Claude or ChatGPT, from the native web app at app.contractstudio.ai, or from inside Microsoft Word. Same intelligence, three surfaces.

Find the certified template

Search certified templates by deal type, guild, medium, talent tier, deal structure. Returns ranked candidates with full attestation records.

Filter by SAG-AFTRA · DGA · WGA
Lifecycle-state aware (no deprecated templates as primary recommendation)
Returns reviewing attorney + CBA pinning + scope of attestation

Deviation reports against a certified template

Compare a Word draft to a certified template. Get a clause-by-clause deviation report grouped by missing, added, and substantive.

Risk-level indicator on every deviation
Scope-boundary statement first, every time
Attorney Override on every finding

Search your studio’s precedent

Search your own deal archive for comparable terms — compensation, territory, term, options. Per-tenant, fully isolated.

Per-studio vector namespace
Raw contracts never leave your cloud
Only query results cross the boundary

Guild compliance check

Validate a draft against the current SAG-AFTRA, DGA, or WGA CBA — not just template alignment.

Talent tier classification

Classify a deal’s talent tier (A-list, day player, voiceover) so the right template, rate floors, and clauses surface automatically.

Contract generation

Generate a draft from a certified template with deal-specific parameters — talent, fees, territory, term — with confidence scoring.

Pre-negotiation briefs

Compose a brief from your studio precedent — key terms you’ve previously agreed, what changed, what’s typical for this counterparty.

Built for entertainment legal

One platform, four personas.

Each surface is tuned to who’s using it — attorneys need attestation chains, business affairs need speed, legal ops needs index health, platform admins need re-attestation alerts.

Studios & Streaming Platforms

Manage high-volume deal flow across theatrical, streaming, and television. Per-studio Layer 2 keeps your contracts in your cloud while you tap a centrally-certified template library.

Production Companies

Spin up fast on certified templates without adding legal headcount. Get to greenlight faster with deviation reports your outside counsel can sign off on.

Television Networks

Handle the velocity of series production, development deals, and talent agreements. Reduce the bottlenecks that delay greenlights.

Business Affairs Teams

Speed-first surfaces. Plain-language template summaries. One-click access to studio precedent. Prep for a negotiation without having to call a lawyer for every comp pull.

In-House Legal Counsel

Audit-ready by design. Browsable attestation records. Override on every finding. The version history of every certified template is one click away.

Leadership

Entertainment legal expertise meets enterprise AI delivery.

We’re not outside technologists trying to learn the industry. We’ve worked inside it — and we’ve built the platforms behind it.

Bill Jacks

CEO & Co-Founder

Over 22 years in entertainment business and legal affairs, with leadership positions at Netflix and Lionsgate. As Director of Legal Operations and Delivery at Netflix, Bill built and scaled the systems that supported the streaming giant’s unprecedented content expansion. His career spans the full spectrum of entertainment legal operations — from business affairs associate to director-level leadership — giving him firsthand understanding of the workflows, pain points, and opportunities that ContractStudio AI is built to address.

Diego Garcia-Lopez

CTO & Co-Founder

17+ years in enterprise data and AI platform delivery, specializing in production-scale AI systems across regulated, high-stakes verticals. Diego has held senior technical leadership roles including Interim Chief Data Officer and NASA/JPL Data Strategy Lead, and has been the engagement lead on multiple AI/ML projects for major media and entertainment studios. His technical depth spans cloud-native architectures, generative AI integration, data engineering at scale, and enterprise MLOps. Diego owns the architectural decisions that keep ContractStudio AI Claude-native, MCP-first, and tenant-isolated by design.

Ready to put your legal AI on the record?

We’re onboarding entertainment legal teams who want answers their attorneys will actually rely on in a live negotiation. Tell us a bit about your studio and we’ll get back to you.

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