Chat with Fusial about a contract

Ask Fusial questions about a contract or a specific redline. Chats are scoped to a contract, threaded, and shared with anyone in your organization who can see the contract.

Fusial's chat assistant lets you ask questions about a contract in plain English — what a clause means, why a redline matters, what to send back to the counterparty, how a term compares against your playbook — without leaving the contract page. Every chat is scoped to one contract, persisted to the contract's history, and visible to teammates with access to that contract.

What you can ask

The assistant has access to everything Fusial already knows about the contract: the title, type, your role (vendor or customer), the counterparty, the current status, the latest AI extraction (summary and key terms), and — when you open chat from a specific redline — the full text around that paragraph.

Useful prompts:

"Summarize this contract in three sentences."
"What's the termination notice period and is that normal for an MSA?"
"Why did Fusial flag this redline as Must-have?"
"Draft a one-paragraph counter to this proposed change."
"What's our exposure under the limitation of liability clause?"
"Which clauses would I push back on first?"

The assistant will quote contract text when that's the clearest answer and will give a specific recommendation when you ask "what should I do?".

Opening a chat

There are two places to start a chat:

From the contract page. Use the chat pill near the bottom of the page. Type your question and press Enter to open a new chat with your prompt pre-filled.
From a specific redline. Open any redline in the editor and use the chat region in the inspector rail. The new chat is anchored to that redline, so the assistant prioritizes answering about it before zooming back out.

Either way, the chat opens as an overlay so you can keep the document visible while you talk to it.

Scope: contract vs. redline

Every chat is attached to exactly one contract. Optionally, a chat can also be attached to:

a specific version of that contract (the assistant uses that version's extraction for context), and / or
a specific redline suggestion (the assistant focuses on that redline and pulls in the surrounding paragraph for grounding).

You'll see the scope at the top of the chat. Chats stay grouped on the contract — opening a redline-scoped chat later still shows it in the contract's chat history.

Threading and history

The Chats button in the top bar opens a popover with your recent chats from across the organization (up to 30, newest first), each one showing the contract it belongs to so you can jump straight back into a conversation. Click any entry to reopen the chat where you left off.

Inside an open chat, the title is auto-generated for you after the assistant's first reply — Fusial takes the first exchange and produces a short summary as the chat's name. Until that runs, the chat displays a truncated version of your first message as a fallback label. You can also delete a chat from the overlay when it's no longer useful; the deletion is recorded in the contract's audit log.

Working with teammates

Chats are shared with everyone who can see the contract. If a teammate opens an existing chat and posts a reply, you'll see their message and their avatar in the participant list at the top.

When a teammate posts a message in a chat you've already participated in, you get a notification. Notifications follow your normal preferences — in-app inbox, email, and / or Slack — and you can mute the Chat reply notification type from Settings → Notifications if you don't want them.

The user who first opened the chat is always a participant, even if they've never typed a message themselves.

What the assistant can't do

The assistant is a read-only advisor. It can answer questions and draft suggested language for you to copy, but it cannot:

Accept, reject, or counter redlines on your behalf.
Edit the contract or your playbook.
Send messages, emails, or Slack notifications to anyone.
See other contracts in your organization — every chat is sandboxed to its contract.

To act on the assistant's advice, use the normal editor controls — accept / reject / counter on a redline, or upload a new version when you're ready to share back.

Permissions

Members, admins, and owners can open chats and post messages.
Viewers can read existing chats on contracts they can see, but cannot post messages or start new chats. (This matches the rest of the viewer restrictions — see Role permissions.)
Chats are scoped to your organization. There's no way to share a chat with someone outside your org.