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Responsible AI Development at Pincites

How we ensure Pincites’ AI is transparent, explainable, secure, and always under lawyer control.

Sona SulakianSona Sulakian
Jul 1, 2025

Contracts are high stakes. That is why we do not just build features that speed up review. We build them to be transparent, defensible, and lawyer controlled. At Pincites, responsible AI is not an afterthought. It is the foundation.

1. Control and oversight

Human in the loop

Lawyers remain the final decision makers. The AI highlights risks and suggests language, but it never overrides your judgment. This human alive standard is critical in regulated industries. The EU AI Act classifies contract negotiation systems as high risk, requiring oversight and auditability. Pincites is designed to meet that bar.

Governance

Admins can monitor, approve, or remove precedents, prompts, or rules. Legal and compliance teams can enforce standards centrally, ensuring consistency across reviewers and preventing rogue edits from creeping in.

Audit trails

Every AI suggestion is logged what was suggested, who applied it, and when. This creates accountability and makes it possible to answer questions like Why did we agree to this clause months later.

2. Transparency and explainability

Explainability

Every redline, comment, or suggestion comes with reasoning you can see and audit. Nothing is a black box. This matters because lawyers must defend their edits to counterparties, regulators, or courts.

Transparency

AI outputs are clearly surfaced, formatted consistently, and always editable before applying. You see exactly what the system proposes, with no hidden logic.

Feedback loops

Lawyers can give direct feedback, allow the AI to learn from their work, or override AI suggestions. That feedback improves the system over time while keeping lawyers in control of the process.

3. Data and security

Data boundaries

Customer data is never shared across tenants or used to train third party models. You decide what the system remembers or forgets, keeping sensitive contract terms protected.

Security by design

Responsible AI means nothing without secure infrastructure. Pincites is SOC 2 Type II compliant and uses tenant level data segregation. AI governance and security are built together, not bolted on.

4. Fairness and regulatory alignment

Bias and fairness controls

Free form AI risks inconsistent or biased outputs. Pincites grounds its suggestions in your playbooks, precedents, and market standards, so results reflect your negotiated history rather than model quirks.

Model choice and tuning

We carefully select underlying models based on accuracy, safety, and contract specific performance, and then constrain them for legal use. This ensures suggestions read like a trained associate, not a generic chatbot.

Regulatory alignment

Pincites is designed with GDPR, HIPAA, and emerging AI laws in mind. Whether it is verifying data minimization or ensuring human oversight, our approach aligns with the standards regulators expect.

The bigger picture

Responsible AI is not just a checklist. It is what makes Pincites’ outputs trustworthy, auditable, and defensible. For legal teams, that means faster review without sacrificing accuracy or compliance.

Try it now

Responsible AI is built into every part of Pincites. Try it in your next review, or join a training session to see how it works in practice.

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