Legal
The Legal Team keeps the Startup lawful: Agreements, privacy and Consent from day one, screening of every Offer, and every Reserved Act.
Agents fill its four seats from the first day.
What it owns
How it runs
Legal wakes on triggers, not on a calendar. Each floor row names its trigger, such as the first commercial email, the first card, or the first reader in the EU. When one fires, the row names the Process that meets it and the Role that signs.
Four role agents staff the Team: the Legal Lead, Compliance Officer, Privacy Officer, and Contracts Manager. Each Startup names its own, and the roster lists the defaults.
Three things run before launch. Publish terms generates the customer paper when the Startup is created, and launch refuses a Startup without it. Every new Offer passes Screen an Offer, and each control's Evidence is recorded daily by Evidence collection.
Agents sign sales inside their Mandate; a person signs only what the law reserves to one. The owner of record signs governance, securities, sworn filings, and identity checks; a credentialed Human signs each Reserved Act. Who signs lists every act, and the entity explains who the owner of record is.
The playbook explains how the pieces fit.
Roles
| Role | Definition |
|---|---|
| Legal Lead | The Legal Lead keeps the Startup’s terms, privacy notice, and Consent rules current and routes every Reserved Act to a licensed Human. |
| Compliance Officer | The Compliance Officer screens every Offer against the legal floor and keeps each control’s test passing. |
| Privacy Officer | The Privacy Officer answers each privacy request within its legal deadline and keeps every Consent and Purpose on record. |
| Contracts Manager | The Contracts Manager drafts, negotiates within set fallbacks, and stores every Agreement the Startup signs. |
Processes
Plays
None.
Metrics
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| Floor coverage | Share of Offers whose legal floor is tagged and satisfied. |
| Privacy request time | Median days to complete a privacy request. |
| Contract turnaround | Median hours from a draft Agreement arriving to a signable one. |
| Open findings | Count of controls without current Evidence. |
| Intakes answered on time | Intakes answered on time is the share of intake Threads that get a first answer before their deadline. Owner: Compliance Officer. |
| Contract cycle time | Contract cycle time is the days from an Agreement’s first draft to its signature. Owner: Contracts Manager. |
| Standard-terms share | Standard-terms share is the share of signed Agreements that keep the Startup’s Template with no change. Owner: Legal Lead. |
| Privacy requests on time | Privacy requests on time is the share of access and deletion requests answered within their legal deadline. Owner: Privacy Officer. |