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About Erskine

What it is, how it works, and what it leaves out on purpose.

Erskine is a document governance and negotiation tool for two or more parties working through a shared agreement: a merger, a partnership, a constitution amendment, or anything else that needs every side's sign-off before it's final. Everyone reads the same documents, with a plain-language explanation alongside the operative wording. They propose changes, raise concerns with the other side, and track what's been agreed. No side has to trust a black box for what the documents say.

No AI in the live product. Erskine's plain-language summaries are written ahead of time by whoever runs the hub, not generated live by a model.
MoreAn optional offline drafting aid can help write them. It is entirely separate, is never used automatically and never touches a live negotiation. What every participant reads is fixed, reviewable text, not something regenerated per visit. This is a deliberate choice. In a negotiation where the exact wording matters, "the same explanation every time, written by a person" is more trustworthy than "whatever a model produces this time."

How the engine works

Plain-language summaries: curated, not generated

Each clause's "in plain terms" explanation is written and reviewed by an administrator when the hub is set up, not produced on the fly. What you read is the same for every participant, every time, and can be checked against the real wording directly above it.

Cross-referencing: keyword matching, not AI

When a clause is linked to related provisions elsewhere in the agreement (or flagged as "needs confirming" after a change), that comes from a scoring algorithm that compares the meaningful words clauses share. Gowers uses the same kind of matching for its document library. Here it runs across one negotiation's documents instead of a personal library. No model is involved.

The negotiation workflow

Suggestions and concerns move through a structured process: raised internally first, then sent to the other side's administrator, who can acknowledge, propose different wording, or refer it to leadership. The raising side confirms before anything becomes a committed change to the documents. Nothing is written to the master documents automatically at any step.

Access & privacy, in plain terms

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