What slips through is never the legal question. The brief is solid, the argument lands — and on the way out the door something gets out that no one should see: the wrong party name on page 12, a comment a colleague left for internal eyes, tracked changes with the whole negotiation history, the signature block left over from the last deal, and in the file's metadata the name of whoever edited it and when. None of it takes legal expertise. It takes two seconds of inattention — and it's exactly the kind of small thing that makes a partner lose confidence in an associate, and a client lose confidence in the firm.
The Second Look is built for that exact moment: the second look at the document before you hit "Send" — or file. Today it ships as version 1.0.
What it checks
One click inside Word runs the document against a growing list of the mistakes experienced associates name again and again:
- →Wrong client / parties — is the opponent, defendant or client still named on page 12 the way they were on page 3? Is there a stray company from the template sitting in the text?
- →Defined terms — used before they're defined, never defined, or spelled inconsistently.
- →Case numbers — a typo, or a file number carried over from another matter.
- →Leftover placeholders —
[CLIENT],XXX, template residue. - →Exhibits & cross-references — a reference to an exhibit or clause that doesn't exist.
- →Signature block — wrong signatory, missing party.
- →Open comments and tracked changes someone can still read.
- →Metadata and hidden content that ships with the file.
- →Numbering gaps, mixed date formats and inconsistent formatting.
It does not assess legal quality and gives no legal advice. It answers exactly one question: is this document clean, consistent and ready to go out?
Find, don't rewrite — you decide
This is not an AI formatter and not a ghostwriter. The Second Look never changes anything silently. Every finding takes you to the exact spot, shows you precisely what would change, and waits for your OK. Changing a name, a date or a defined term can shift the meaning — that call stays yours. The tool is perfect at finding; fixes happen on confirmation, with one click. Your text stays yours.
That also means the everyday cleanup you'd otherwise do across five different Word menus — remove all comments, accept or reject tracked changes, strip metadata — happens in one pass instead of five.
Fully local. No cloud risk.
For a law firm this is the part that matters: the document does not leave your device. No cloud, no AI at runtime, no transmission, no storage — the check runs entirely inside the add-in on your machine. Client confidentiality stays client confidentiality, and there's nothing to clear with IT about where the data goes, because it doesn't go anywhere.
It's the document check you're actually allowed to use in the AI era — precisely because it isn't sending your draft to anyone.
Any language, any jurisdiction
A German firm writes English contracts; a US firm deals with foreign counterparties. So detection isn't tied to the document's language: a German GmbH inside an English-language agreement is caught just like a Swiss SA, a UK Ltd or a US LLC. Works the same on Mac and Windows.
How to get it
- 01Install the add-in in Word and activate it.
- 02Open a document and run The Second Look.
- 03Walk through the findings — each linking to the exact spot, many with one-click fixes — and send clean.
There's a free tier that stays genuinely useful (placeholders, comments and tracked changes), and a 7-day free trial for the full set of lawyer-grade checks, then an annual subscription you can cancel anytime.
It doesn't replace your professional final review. It's the second look that catches what the professional review tends to overlook: the details.
