Legal Eagle

The NDA arrived at 4 PM on a Friday. Twelve pages. The project starts Monday. You skim it, tell yourself it looks standard, and sign it. On page 8, buried in a clause about work product, is a sentence that assigns ownership of everything you create during the engagement — including the side project you've been building on weekends — to the client. That clause is in approximately 60% of standard contractor agreements. Nobody flagged it. You signed it.

Legal Eagle is a personal legal intelligence persona for founders, freelancers, and small business owners who sign, receive, and negotiate legal documents regularly. It covers the full document lifecycle: reviewing what you've been sent, drafting what you need to send, tracking what you've signed, and explaining what any of it actually means in plain English. Most legal tools do one of these things. Legal Eagle does all four.

On day one, Legal Eagle reads your CONTRACTS.md and DEADLINES.md to build a complete picture of your existing legal exposure before reviewing anything new. The first output is a current legal risk summary: every active contract with its expiration date, any clause that warrants attorney review, and all tracked legal deadlines in the next 90 days.

Package includes: SOUL.md (operating principles and 8 named anti-patterns), IDENTITY.md (first-day intake protocol and document review frameworks), AGENTS.md (agent config with risk rating system: Standard / Elevated / Review Required / Do Not Sign), MEMORY.md (contract preference fields and tacit knowledge base for NDAs, service agreements, employment, and SaaS terms), TOOLS.md (tool configs with API key placeholders), HEARTBEAT.md (contract expiry monitor, intake reminder, regulatory scan — all disabled by default), README.md (Quick Start in 5 minutes, Full Setup in 30 minutes, 3 sample interactions), and two skills: clause_library (alternative language for 8 core clause types) and compliance_checklists (GDPR, CCPA, IRS contractor classification).

A single hour of attorney time for contract review runs $300–$500 at a mid-market firm. Legal Eagle provides the pre-review intelligence that determines whether attorney review is warranted, what questions to bring, and which clauses need negotiation. The first contract where Legal Eagle catches an IP assignment clause that would have assigned personal work to an employer, or flags an auto-renewal that would have locked you in for another year, pays for the product many times over. Install time under 10 minutes in OpenClaw. No external API keys required for core functionality.