Missing Metadata Chase

Legal / AUTOMATE.md

Every weekday at 9:00am, pull the contract records missing a value, term, or owner and email the requester what is still outstanding.

This is the whole automation. Run it as it is, or change any word, including the tools it names.

  • Incomplete records cleared
  • Requesters get one short list

How it runs

  1. 1. Starts

    Every weekday at 9:00am

  2. 2. Delivers to

    Email

  3. 3. You decide

    Approve each time, or let the steps you trust run. Your choice.

Why legal and compliance teams set this up

Contract requests arrive by email, chat, and a shared drive, and nobody agrees where they belong. A twelve-page master services agreement and a one-page non-disclosure agreement land the same morning, both marked urgent, so the work that matters waits behind paper that does not. Intake is also where metadata such as a value band or an end date quietly disappears and turns into a gap months later.

See the whole job: Contract Intake Triage

Use it as is. Or make it yours.

Edit it the way you would edit a note to a colleague. It follows the new version from the next run.

  • Change when it runs

    Move it to another day or time, or start it when something arrives, like a new email.

  • Add your own rules

    Limits, exceptions and what good looks like go in the same file, in plain words.

  • Decide what waits for you

    Mark the steps that need your OK, and let the rest run.

You stay in charge.
At every step.

It compares and flags. Every legal call stays yours.

  • It never signs or advises

    It quotes deviations against your playbook. Accepting, signing and advising stay with a lawyer.

  • Every flag shows its source

    Each deviation quotes the clause it is about, every step is recorded, and a file change can be put back.

  • Confidential stays contained

    Each automation reaches only the folders you connect for it, and a local model keeps processing on your machine.

Missing Metadata Chase

Approve before it sends the email?

ReviewApprove

Before you download.

Where does it run?
On your Mac or Windows computer, in the background. It keeps working after you close its window, and only reaches the folders and apps you connect for each automation.
How does it connect to our CRM and other tools?
Through each app's own connection where it offers one, signed in once by you, or by using the app in a browser the way you would. Each automation gets only the connections you give it, and the tools a page names are examples you can swap for your own.
Does it run when my computer is asleep?
It keeps your computer awake while a job runs and just before a scheduled one. While the computer is closed or off, nothing runs; when it wakes, it checks the inbox, calendar and other sources it watches for anything that arrived meanwhile.
How does my team use it?
Each person who runs automations installs the app. Keep a project in a shared folder, such as Google Drive or a network drive, and teammates can open it and follow every run, while one person owns it and runs it.
Do I need anyone technical to set it up?
No. Download the app, add an automation in plain words, and connect only what that job needs. Nothing runs until you switch it on.

Already have tools for this? Here is the difference.

Contract management systems

Storing signed contracts and running approval routes.

Their rules can't read new paper against your playbook or explain a deviation in plain words.

Flowchart automation tools

Moving records between apps.

Clause-level judgment does not fit into branches, and every exception becomes another one to maintain.

AI chat assistants

Summarizing a contract when you paste it in.

Nothing happens until someone asks, and the playbook lives in a chat instead of a document you control.

AUTOMATE.md

Your routine, written in plain words. It runs on its own, follows your rules, handles the exceptions a flowchart can't, and asks you when it matters. The file stays yours, whichever AI model runs it.

Other setups for the same job.

Intake Triage Routing

When a contract request lands in the intake queue, sort it by type, value, and risk, then post the routing list to the legal channel.

When a new contract request is submitted

Unsigned Request Backlog

Every Monday at 9:00am, post the contract requests still unsigned after five business days with the owner and the days waiting.

Every Monday at 9:00am

Related workflows

Playbook Deviation Review

Escalates clauses that fall outside the approved position with the wording, the risk, and a named decision owner.

4 automations

Standard Paper Turnaround

Clears non-disclosure and master service agreements that match the playbook without waiting for a lawyer to open them.

3 automations

Contract review

Compares incoming clauses against the recorded positions and returns the exceptions as a short list, so a reviewer opens a document with the argument already framed.

1 automation

Start with one job.
Make it your own.

macOS — coming soon
  1. 1

    Get the app

    It runs on your computer, next to your files.

  2. 2

    Add the automation

    Paste the instructions into the app, or save them as a file next to your work.

  3. 3

    Try it, then turn it on

    Run it once and check the result. It only runs on its own once you switch it on.

macOS — coming soon