AI wrote your contract? YIKES ❌


*sigh*

You might have seen Paige's IG story today where she shared this reel to her story.

Popular real estate agent, Ryan Serhant shared how ChatGPT ruined a $50million deal.

Two people negotiated and came to a deal. Right before signing, both parties asked ChatGPT if it was the right decision:

Person 1:

"Chat, am I undercharging for this property?"

"Yes, you should charge more."

Person 2:

"Chat, am I overpaying for this property?"

"Yes, you are over paying."

It sounds like the set up to a bad joke. Only, this is happening, in real life, all the time.

I've seen a dozen deals blow up this year for this exact reason [clients asking ChatGPT what to do], and had multiple clients [at the law firm] respond to my emails with ChatGPT answers. I have seen so many "tech founders" blow up their own opportunities because they shoot their own intellectual property in the foot by creating with AI. - Paige Hulse

The hard truth many people don't realize about LLM's is:

Large Language Models, like Claude and ChatGPT, are probability machines.

It is predicting what words to produce. Not based on facts, or meaning, or good decision making. Bases on what is most likely to appear next and keep you using the platform.

And if I can be real honest for a minute, that is what scares me the most about more business owners using AI to write their contracts and negotiate their deals.

Even Anthropic's attorney's learned this lesson the hard way.

Last year, one of Anthropic’s lawyers had to apologize in court after their AI tool, Claude, generated a completely fake legal citation... and the attorney provided this fabricated citation to the judge in court.

The judge caught it. The citation? A hallucination. Totally made up. [Read the story here.]

I'm not going to sugarcoat this.

AI can be a powerful tool but it’s not a replacement for a real contract, written by a real attorney.

And definitely not something you should blindly trust to protect your business.


At the Creative Law Shop and the Foundry™ we never use AI to write our contracts.

🔹 AI doesn’t write your contract. Every word of every contract in our Shop was written by attorney Paige Hulse, who has stood before a judge defending these contracts. That’s not something any AI model (or ChatGPT prompt) can do.

🔹Our Contract Builder = lawyer-drafted language, smart customization. It’s a guided tool that walks you through attorney-drafted templates with over 400+ legal triggers — so your contract reflects your business, with none of the generic fluff or legal guesswork. This is automation, not AI.


We’re on a mission to provide legally-sound resources without the hourly rate.

And sometimes that means telling you what NOT to use.

The Foundry™ is ushering in a new era of what a 'template shop' is. A place where you don’t just download a fill-in-the-blank contract and hope you filled it out right.

Instead, you start with attorney-drafted language, customize it before it’s drafted, and use our built-in education to actually understand what you’re sending.

Because legal confidence shouldn’t require a law degree. And it definitely shouldn’t come from a generic Google search or chatbot.

If you’re building a business that’s meant to last, you deserve contracts that were built to do the same.

Until next time,

Teresa

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