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Use Your Internal Knowledge

SingleDraft helps you leverage your firm's existing knowledge base efficiently. This guide showcases how can you make the most of the Snippets feature.

Step-by-Step Walkthrough​

  1. Basic Search with Keywords You can search with or without using filters. Let's start by simply typing a few words in the search bar, e.g., contractual penalty. Using a combination of traditional and semantic search, SingleDraft will find the most relevant parts of your documents that match the search query. These can include clauses with the same wording (e.g., contractual penalty), or clauses with just similar meaning (e.g., fines).

    During free trial, you have access to a limited number of publicly available documents. To setup SingleDraft sync with your documents, please see this guide.

  2. Basic Filtering In case you want to narrow down the search results, you can use the filters. The values used for filtering are automatically extracted from the source documents by us when syncing. You do not have to manually sort or tag your documents.

    Let's say you want to find clauses about penalties only in English. You can select English in the language filter.

  3. Advanced Filtering You can also use advanced filters to narrow down the search results. For example, you can filter by Contract Type or Jurisdiction. Perhaps you need clauses in English, but from past contracts governed by German law. You can select English in the language filter and German in the governing law filter.

    As you are adding filters, the options for the remaining filters change to reflect the current selection. Therefore, once you select the filters above, other filters reflect this and show only the options that are now available.

    You can therefore even at this stage check, that English clauses from German contracts are matching only some document types that have both of these characteristics.

  4. Search by dropping an existing clause You can also search by dropping a part of text from the document into the search bar. This will automatically find similar clauses in your documents.

    In our example, if you are interested in a clause about penalties, you can simply drag and drop an existing clause into the search bar.

2. Compare Clauses​

To compare a part of an existing text from a document with a clause from the search results, you can simply drag and drop the clause from the document into the search results.

3. Intelligent Filter Suggestions​

If you type a query that would benefit from a filter, we will suggest the most relevant filters for you. For example, if you search for contractual penalty written last year, SingleDraft will suggest the corresponding Date filter.

4. Personal and Team Organization​

My List​

You can save any snippet found into your personal lists. These lists are visible only to you and can be used as filters in your searches.

Tags​

You can also add tags to your snippets. These tags are visible to all team members and can be used to organize or comment on your snippets.

5. Integration with Other Features​

Definition Lookup​

In the Checks feature, all defined terms from the current documents can be easily used as a filter to find snippets from past documents containing alternative definitions.

AI Assistant Integration​

The AI Assistant can also tap into your internal knowledge base to provide you with the most relevant edit suggestions.