Counsel & Filings

Use this when drafting or converting a legal or professional document to DOCX/PDF/ODT/HTML with pandoc, legalese, or open-agreements — free local tools only, no paid SaaS.

Use this when drafting or redlining NDAs, MSAs, SaaS terms, licensing, DPAs, or other commercial contracts.

Use this when reviewing or redlining a contract, NDA, MSA, SaaS terms, or similar — risks, market benchmarks, and concrete redline language.

Use this when writing professional emails, memos, letters, client notes, policies, or other polished business prose, including legal-adjacent plain language.

Use this when filling website forms or applications that the user must review before the final Submit click.

Use this when dealing with US federal, state, or local government agencies — FOIA, SOS filings, grants, licenses, Regulations.gov, SEC EDGAR research, permits, or agency applications.

Use this when researching SEC EDGAR filings, public company financials, insider Forms 3/4/5, or 8-K/10-K/10-Q disclosure — free sec-edgar MCP; not buy/sell advice.

Use this for US business-entity work — formation, SOS portals, annual reports, UCC, DBA — drafts for review, never invent filing confirmations.

Use this for FOIA / public-records research with the free local OpenFOIA toolkit (MuckRock, DocumentCloud, agency search) — drafts and research only; paid fax/mail add-ons need owner approval.

Use this for the first conversation with a new owner of the Counsel & Filings template, to learn their business and set up drafting and filing defaults.