Newcomb — AI Clearance
“Can we use this AI?”
Answered in a memo you can sign.
When the business wants a new AI tool, Newcomb reads the vendor’s terms against your policies and your customer contracts, and drafts the legal review — every conclusion traced to a quoted clause. And when the terms change later, it tells you which approvals just broke.
Closed pilot · five design partners · fixed fee.
Jun 9 — Newcomb Library published: Acme Service Terms v3 → v4
Conflict · High
Vendor data-use rights — outputs now in scope
“Provider may use Customer Data to develop and improve the Services including Inputs and Outputs.”
Proposed v3 — condition added: execute amendment covering Inputs and Outputs.
Signed · B. Camara, Counsel · May 28 2026 · sha 8f2c41…
Evidence accepted
Watch a memo catch a terms change.
LIBRARY — VERIFIED & WATCHED: OPENAI · ANTHROPIC · GOOGLE GEMINI · M365 COPILOT · AWS BEDROCK · GITHUB COPILOT · ZOOM AI · SLACK AI · NOTION AI · GONG · +10
Intake
Your team asks through a short form. Most tools are already in the Newcomb Library, verified.
Analysis
Obligations from every source in scope, compared: conflicts, gaps, and conditions, each traced to a quoted clause.
Signed & watched
Counsel edits and signs. Newcomb watches the sources behind every signed memo and flags exactly what breaks.
…use Customer Data to improve the Services including Inputs and Outputs.
Not a dashboard.
Inventories tell you what AI you have. Newcomb tells you whether you can use it.
Retrieval finds the clause. Structure tells you what must be true before you can sign.
A static memo starts dying the day it’s signed. A living memo tells you when it breaks.
The Newcomb Library.
Ships with counsel-verified obligations for 20+ common AI vendors — service terms, DPAs, AI policies, subprocessor lists — and the AI regulatory pack, from the EU AI Act to NYC Local Law 144. Maintained centrally. Watched for changes. When a vendor edits its terms, every customer’s affected clearances are flagged the same day.
Regulatory pack
Built by counsel
Newcomb is built by a technology-transactions and AI attorney who did these reviews for a living — and got tired of doing them from memory. The schemas underneath come from real clearances, not a requirements workshop.
The pilot.
Five design partners. A fixed-fee, six-month engagement. White-glove onboarding — we structure your policy set and commitment base with you. You get the product shaped around your clearance flow; we ask for real clearances and a standing feedback call.
Applications are reviewed by a human.