How it works
- Choose Rivine Cicero and a specialty in the Taskspace input bar.
- Describe your matter and attach the documents.
- Cicero confirms the governing law and the facts the analysis depends on.
- If something essential is missing, it tells you plainly what is missing and asks for it.
- If the matter is fully specified, it drafts the memo or document.
- If the matter is high-risk or unclear, it says so and points you to human or licensed review.
- The deliverable opens in Preview.
Figure: Cicero never guesses past a gap; it names it.
Specialties
Pick a specialty before you send. One dedicated legal specialist handles the whole matter, start to finish, in a single pass.
| Specialty | Covers |
|---|---|
| Contract Review / Legal Drafting | Reviewing or drafting contracts, NDAs and commercial agreements |
| Corporate Law | Governance, entity formation and compliance |
| Employment Law | Offer letters, employment terms and workplace policy |
| Immigration Law | Visa, sponsorship and status questions |
| International Relations | Cross-border and multi-jurisdiction matters |
| Patent Compliance | Patent and prior-art questions |
| M&A Due Diligence | Deal-related document review |
| Policy and Law Drafting / General | Cross-cutting or multi-domain matters that do not fit one specialty |
Not sure which fits? General covers the full breadth of practice areas and tells you plainly if your matter needs a narrower specialist.
Output length follows the matter
| Matter | What you get |
|---|---|
| Narrow and fully specified | A focused memo |
| Multi-jurisdiction or high stakes | A long, detailed memo, the length real law-firm work of that kind requires |
| Underspecified (missing jurisdiction or a key fact) | A short statement of what is missing and a request for it, not a padded document |
Figure: length follows the matter; underspecified work stays short and honest.
Why it matters for high-stakes work
Legal and policy mistakes are expensive and often irreversible. Cicero is built so its failure mode is "tells you it is unsure and routes to a licensed professional", never "confidently wrong". That matters to a founder signing a term sheet, a consultant advising across jurisdictions, or a researcher reading an IP assignment clause.
Note: Cicero produces research and drafts. Have a licensed attorney review anything you sign, file or rely on.
Who uses it
- Startup teams: SAFEs, employment agreements, term sheets and first-hire compliance across jurisdictions.
- Consulting firms: NDAs, cross-border data agreements and client-facing policy memos.
- Software engineering teams: open-source license review and patent or prior-art disclosure drafting.
- Research organizations: multi-institution collaboration and IP-ownership agreements.
- University post-graduates: plain-language explanations of IP assignment and research agreement clauses.
Example prompts
| Persona | Example prompt |
|---|---|
| Startup team | "Review this SAFE agreement draft and flag any terms that deviate from standard YC SAFE language." |
| Consulting firm | "Draft an NDA for a joint due-diligence engagement between our firm and this client, under US governing law." |
| Software engineering team | "Review this open-source dependency's license for compatibility with our proprietary codebase before we ship it." |
| Startup team | "We're hiring our first remote employee in Germany. Draft an employment agreement and flag any mandatory local employment terms we're missing." |
| University post-graduate | "Explain, in plain terms, what this university IP assignment clause means for my thesis research and any patent rights." |
| Consulting firm | "Draft a cross-border data-processing addendum for a client operating in the US, UK and Germany, and flag where GDPR and US state privacy law conflict." |
| Research organization | "Review this multi-institution research collaboration agreement and flag any IP ownership ambiguity across the three participating universities." |
| Startup team | "We're raising a Series A with a foreign lead investor. Draft the term sheet issue list and flag anything requiring immigration or FDI screening review." |
| Software engineering team | "Draft a patent invention disclosure memo for this new caching algorithm and flag any prior art risk from these three uploaded papers." |
| Consulting firm | "A client is expanding into three new international markets. Draft a policy memo identifying the international relations and trade-law touchpoints they need licensed counsel for." |