MikeA legal AI workspace for privacy and data protection lawyers
Privacy firms use Mike to review data processing agreements, privacy notices and vendor contracts, extract terms across a client's vendors, and prepare incident files and assessments from the documents on hand. Every answer cites the section it came from, so counsel can confirm it quickly.
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Attorney: Check the Cloudbridge data processing agreement against our playbook and list deviations. Draft the breach notice clause we should request.
Mike: The agreement departs from the playbook in two places. Breach notice is due within ten business days of confirmation [1], where the playbook asks for 72 hours from discovery. The vendor may also add subprocessors on notice, with no right for the client to object [2]. The security exhibit is otherwise consistent with the playbook [3]. I drafted a replacement notice clause.
- [1] Data processing agreement, § 7.2, p. 6
- [2] Data processing agreement, § 5.4, p. 5
- [3] Security exhibit, Annex II, p. 11
Mike created Fernhill breach notice clause.docx.
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Privacy counsel read a large number of documents that look alike: vendor addenda, notices, records of processing, policies. Mike reads them as a set, lists the terms side by side, and shows where one departs from your standard, so review goes to the exceptions.
Cuanto Labs sets Mike up against your client matter folders, loads your data processing agreement playbook and assessment forms, and agrees the vendor columns with your privacy team. Folders holding sensitive personal data can be left out of what Mike reads.
What Mike does for your practice
- Data processing agreement review
- Mike reads a vendor's data processing agreement against your playbook and lists the terms that matter, such as processing instructions, subprocessors, security measures, breach notice timing, audit rights and deletion on termination, with a citation to each section.
- Vendor portfolio tables
- Tabular Review pulls the same fields from every vendor agreement in a client's folder, such as data categories, subprocessor terms, transfer mechanisms and notice periods, into a sortable table you can export to Excel.
- Privacy notice and policy drafting
- Mike drafts and revises privacy notices, internal policies and consent language in Word from your templates and the client's description of its practices. Revisions show as tracked changes, and an attorney approves each one.
- Notice and practice comparison
- Upload a client's privacy notice and its internal records of processing, and Mike lists statements in the notice that the internal documents do not support, and practices the notice does not mention.
- Incident file organization
- When a client reports an incident, Mike reads the incident log, forensic summaries and correspondence, builds a timeline, and lists what has been established and what is still open, with each entry linked to its source page.
- Regulatory and case law research
- Mike searches published case law on questions such as standing in data cases or the reach of a consent requirement, and reads the opinions before summarizing them. We can connect the regulatory sources your firm subscribes to.
How we set it up for your firm
- Data processing agreement playbook
- We load your preferred and fallback positions for each term, so Mike checks an incoming agreement against your playbook and drafts the language you would ask for.
- Vendor register columns
- We build Tabular Review templates for the fields your team tracks across vendors and agree the columns with you, so the output matches your existing registers.
- Notice and policy templates
- We load your privacy notice, internal policy, consent language and assessment forms, so drafts follow your format and revisions show as tracked changes.
- Incident response workflow
- We save a workflow for new incidents that turns the log, forensic summaries and correspondence into a timeline and a list of established and open facts.
- Statutes and guidance sources
- If your firm subscribes to statutory, regulatory and guidance sources across jurisdictions, we connect them during setup. They are connected per setup, not built in.
Questions attorneys ask
Can Mike check vendor agreements against our playbook?
Yes. We load your playbook, and Mike reads each incoming agreement against it, listing where the vendor's terms depart from your preferred and fallback positions, with the section for each. It can then draft the language you would ask for. An attorney decides which departures to accept, and every flagged section can be checked in one click.
Can Mike tell me which privacy laws apply to a client?
Not on its own. It can read the client's description of its data flows and customer locations and list the facts that bear on applicability, with the pages. Statutes, regulations and regulator guidance come from sources your firm subscribes to, connected during setup, and published case law is searched through CourtListener. The applicability decision is counsel's.
Can Mike compare a privacy notice with what the client does?
Load the notice and the client's records of processing, system descriptions and vendor contracts. Mike lists statements in the notice that no internal document supports, and practices in the documents that the notice never mentions, each with a page. It compares documents only, so interviews with the client are still needed to learn what is not written down.
Can Mike help with a records of processing or assessment?
It can read a client's policies, system descriptions and contracts, and draft sections of a record of processing or an assessment in your template, citing the documents it drew from. Facts it cannot find are listed as open questions. The client and the attorney confirm the content, because Mike only knows what the documents say.
What happens when there is an incident and time is short?
Firms keep a saved workflow for incidents, so a new file can be read quickly and turned into a timeline, a list of established and open facts, and a first draft of a notice for attorney review. Mike works from the documents you give it, and decisions on notification and content stay with counsel and the client.
Can Mike track subprocessor changes across vendors?
Run the same Tabular Review over each vendor's current and prior agreements or subprocessor lists, and Mike tabulates the subprocessors named, locations stated and notice periods for changes. Differences between the two versions are listed with their pages. It sees only the documents you provide, so a change communicated only by email needs that email in the folder.
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