Purpose and best uses
Draft is the Professional workspace for developing legal documents and related drafting plans. It includes distinct modes for drafting a document, revising an existing document, obtaining a guided roadmap, and running available Agentic Draft workflows. Use it when the desired output is proposed text or a structured drafting process, rather than only an answer to a research question. Choosing the right mode helps the application understand whether it should create, change, plan, or carry out a reviewed sequence of steps.
Draft a Document asks for a document type, source or jurisdiction selections, and the facts and objective. Revise a Document begins with existing material and instructions about what should change. Guide Me develops a roadmap from a stated goal. Agentic Draft, where enabled, offers a skill selection and a proposed plan for review before execution. These modes are related, but they are not interchangeable. A request to revise a clause needs the existing clause; a roadmap does not by itself mean every resulting document has been prepared.
How to use it well
Supply the parties, relevant dates, known facts, intended audience, desired result, and any formatting requirements. Distinguish facts from assumptions and identify missing information. For revisions, describe the intended changes specifically rather than say only “make it better.” Review the proposed language against the original, including any redline export offered by the workflow. For Agentic Draft, inspect the plan and its inputs before choosing Approve and Run. The plan-review step is an opportunity to correct the assignment before the tools act on it.
The installed ordinary drafting workflow checks clear maximum-word instructions. If a capped draft is too long, it can make one shortening attempt; if the output still fails the requirements, it returns an unfinished result rather than silently presenting it as complete. A shortening attempt can involve additional generation. State a maximum plainly, such as “No more than 450 words,” and review the delivered text. This behavior should not be assumed to apply identically to every revision or agentic workflow simply because they share the Draft menu.
Example and practical limits
For a fictional supplier dispute, you could select Legal Memorandum, describe the facts, choose relevant sources, and request a defined structure and maximum length. Review the resulting analysis and citations before exporting. Completed ordinary drafts offer a formatted Word export. The Word export keeps recognized section headings with the following paragraph. That formatting improvement helps readability, but it does not make a draft substantively correct or ready to file without review.
Agentic results have their own checks and export conditions. An accepted result can be saved in My Research, while a failed verification gate can prevent export or finalization. A visible “Finalize” confirmation is not evidence that a court filing has actually been transmitted. Read the actual workflow status and any warnings. Draft is best used to turn researched issues and supplied facts into organized proposed work, then inspect every important fact, source, quotation, and requirement. Keep the original documents, compare revisions, and treat a successful export as document creation rather than professional approval of its contents.
Keep a copy of the instruction with the exported document when the assignment is important. It explains the requested audience, facts, and limits, and makes later review more meaningful. If you edit the Word file afterward, distinguish those edits from the text originally generated by Law Mind.