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AI Legal Drafting Software for Clia

Consultants send clients letters and notices full of references to laws. Each reference had to be looked up by hand, and one wrong article number can cost a client's trust. Clia puts two AI tools on one platform. The assistant answers everyday questions and opens on ready tasks. The editor helps draft and summarize documents, and a trained model turns every law they cite into a working link. Hygge built both apps on one shared core.

Does Your Team Still Check Every Citation by Hand?

If your experts write documents full of references, we start with a map of how they draft today. You get a proposal with the scope, team, timeline and cost.

Where Consultants Lost Time and Trust

Each problem cost a consultant time or put a client's trust at risk.

References Checked by Hand

Every law or regulation a document cited had to be found and opened one at a time.

Almost Right Is Wrong

A citation with the wrong article is a wrong citation. General AI models often cut a reference in the wrong place.

Routine Documents From Scratch

Emails and disciplinary letters were drafted by hand for each client.

Circulars Keep Coming

New circulars and notices arrive all the time, and each one needs reading and a short summary.

A Blank Chat Box

A chat with no starting point leaves a busy consultant guessing what to ask.

A Prototype at Its Limit

The first version proved the idea. Each new feature made it harder to change, and it could not serve two products.

The Challenge

Consultants write for clients who rely on the rules being right. Every document cites laws and circulars, and each reference was checked by hand. The client wanted two tools for this work: an assistant for quick questions and an editor for drafting. Its first prototype proved the idea but could not carry both.

Documents full of legal references, checked one at a time.

Our Solution

Hygge moved the platform to React and FastAPI one feature at a time. Both apps share one core, and each deploys with its own branding. In the editor, a trained model finds each legal reference and turns it into a link. The assistant opens on ready tasks and keeps a history of past answers.

Two apps on one core, with a model trained to find legal references.

How the Legal Drafting Software Solves It

Each card answers one problem above.

References Turned Into Links

A trained model finds the legal references in a document and links each one.

A Model Trained on the Formats

Training on real reference formats made detection reliable enough to link on its own.

Drafting Help in the Editor

The editor cleans up text, writes summaries and reads a document aloud.

Circulars and History in One Place

The assistant keeps circulars and notices in their own section, next to the history of past answers.

Quick Starts for Real Tasks

The assistant opens on tasks such as an email, a disciplinary matter or a summary.

One Core, Separate Apps

Shared services sit underneath. Each app ships with its own branding and features.

What the Legal Drafting Software Does

Two apps, the assistant and the editor, and the shared foundation that keeps them apart.

AI Assistant With Quick Starts

A chat assistant that opens on real tasks: emails, disciplinary matters, study and marketing content, summaries. A user starts from a task.

Regulatory Circulars Section

A section for circulars and notices, plus activity history. A consultant needs last week's answer as much as a new one.

AI Document Editor

A rich text editor built on TipTap. It has one-click summaries, cleanup tools and read-aloud through text to speech.

Legal Reference Detection

A fine-tuned model finds legal and regulatory references in a document and turns them into links. It exports the set it found as structured data.

Usage Tracking Built In

The volume of processed text is tracked per account, ready for usage-based billing.

Independent Deployment

Docker packaging with PostgreSQL or MySQL, so each app deploys on its own and fits the target environment.

What Runs Without Anyone Pressing a Button

The work both apps do on every request.

Text Volume Metered as It Runs

Usage is tracked per account as text is processed, ready for usage-based billing.

References Linked in One Pass

The editor scans a document, links every legal reference and exports the set.

History Kept for Every Request

The assistant keeps an activity history, so a consultant can find last week's answer.

Each App Ships in Its Own Container

Docker images deploy each app on its own, against PostgreSQL or MySQL.

What Consultants Got

What the legal drafting software does in daily work now.

Auto-linked

Citations a Consultant Used to Look Up by Hand

1 pass

A Document Read Once, Every Reference Resolved

Metered

Text Volume Tracked for Billing

2 apps

On One Platform, Shipping Apart

The Stack Behind Clia

ReactReact
FastAPIFastAPI
PythonPython
TipTapTipTap
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
MySQLMySQL
DockerDocker
TypeScriptTypeScript
OpenAI APIOpenAI API
LoRALoRA

Prototype to Platform

Assess the Prototype
A walk through the first prototype with the client: what it proved, what to keep and what to rebuild.
Editor AI Features
Summaries, formatting tools and a fine-tuned model that links legal references.
Staged Migration
A move to React and FastAPI in stages, with shared services underneath.
The Two Applications
The assistant got quick starts, circulars and history. The editor got summaries, formatting and read-aloud.

Where Legal Drafting Software Fits by Industry

Industries where text is full of references to other text, and an answer has to point at its source.

LegalTech

LegalTech

Document-heavy products where a reference has to be exactly right, and an approximately correct citation is a wrong one.

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Healthcare & Staffing

Healthcare & Staffing

Marketplaces and workflow tools for care organizations, where the mechanism in the middle decides whether the market is fair.

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Public Safety & Security

Public Safety & Security

Recognition and alerting systems for agencies working in the field, built to keep running when the network does not and to survive the audit that follows.

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HR & Recruitment

HR & Recruitment

Hiring platforms, professional networks and staffing marketplaces where matching runs on structured data.

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Solutions Built Into Clia

This consultant software was assembled from systems Hygge builds as standalone solutions. Each card shows what that solution covered here.

Business Process Automation

Consultants chased the legal references in each document by hand. A fine-tuned model now finds them, links them and exports the set as structured data.

  • Auto-linkedReferences a consultant used to look up by hand
  • 1 passA document read once, with every reference resolved
  • StructuredOutput the product can use without retyping

API & Payment Integration

Usage is billed by processed text, so metering is part of the product. The platform ships as Docker images against PostgreSQL or MySQL.

  • MeteredText volume tracked because that is the invoice
  • DockerEach app packaged to deploy on its own
  • 2 appsReleasing on their own schedules from one platform

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Legal Drafting Software: Questions Buyers Ask

Question mark iconWhy rebuild the first prototype?
It proved the idea, but it could not carry two apps on one core. Each new feature would have cost more than the last.
Question mark iconWhy train a model for legal references?
General models see that a reference exists but often miss its exact edges. In legal text, an almost correct citation is a wrong one. Training on the real formats made detection reliable enough to link on its own.
Question mark iconCan each app have its own branding?
Yes. Both apps share one core, and each deploys on its own with its own branding and features.
Question mark iconWhat does the editor do besides linking references?
It cleans up text, writes summaries and reads documents aloud through text to speech.
Question mark iconWhich databases does it run on?
PostgreSQL or MySQL, packaged in Docker, so each app fits the environment it deploys into.

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