Turn a baseline template or a stack of negotiated redlines into a working playbook instead of typing one from a blank page. Aline reads the paper, asks a few questions, then drafts the categories, rules, starting positions, and fallbacks.

This is how playbooks stay current with how you actually negotiate. Attach 10 or 20 redlined deals and the fallbacks come from positions your team has already accepted, not from memory or a generic template.

Legal and commercial teams can stand up a customer-side MSA playbook, or any other agreement type, in the time it used to take to outline one.

Under the hood, playbooks now run on the same redlining engine as AI Chat. Playbooks read existing redlines and can redline a redline, which is what multi-turn negotiation on a live document requires.

Workflows has a new Insights view alongside List and Board. It opens with a set of charts your team can use immediately:

Time in status is the one to reach for when you want to know how long contracts sit with the counterparty versus legal versus finance. Charts drill through to the workflows behind any bar or point, so a number always leads back to the actual contracts.

You can also build your own. Add a custom chart, pick bar, column, line, or area, and choose what to measure and group by. Editing one of the built-in charts is a good shortcut, since it gives you a working starting point to remix. Pin the charts your team watches so everyone lands on the same view, and export any chart as an image for a board deck or a QBR.

Organize legal work the way your team actually operates — separate pipelines, statuses that match your process, and cards that move with the work.

Create separate boards for different pipelines (e.g. NDAs, vendor reviews, order forms). Give each a name, color, icon, and description so teams can focus on their own queue.

Shape columns to match your process — including statuses like “With counterparty,” plus Paused and Cancelled. Keep triage, not started, in progress, signing, and done categories while renaming and reordering to fit how you work.

Use a triage column as a shared intake queue. New requests land there until someone picks them up and moves them into active work.

Link workflow phases to board columns so cards move left to right automatically as phases start — less manual drag-and-drop.

See severity (Urgent / High / Medium / Low), request type, board, status, requester, labels, and assignee at a glance. Filter by open/completed, assigned by me, request type, status, assignee, priority, and more. Switch between list and board anytime.

View the overview video here:

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When you reply from a workflow’s Activity tab on a Slack-linked request, the message now posts back to the Slack thread — your name and photo — instead of the generic Aline bot.

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Fixed several issues that could block or break launching a template — including checkbox fields when copying documents, and launches that failed when recipients referenced certain permissions. Template starts should be more dependable.

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We've shipped a few updates over the last few days to make Aline faster, cleaner, and more precise for your legal workflows.

You can now add to any document sent through AlignSign. Use them to capture product selections, acknowledgements, consents, or any structured choice directly on the page.

Each checkbox group supports , so during signature validation you can require that a signer checks off at least one option—or several—before completing. Signers can tick boxes right in the document or from the side-panel outline, making even complex agreements simple to complete correctly.

Aline's AI now enforces across contract types and parties in your workspace. Previously, the AI could occasionally register a duplicate entity; that's no longer possible. Your list of contract types and parties stays clean, consistent, and trustworthy—so reporting and organization reflect reality.

As we prepare parent–child detection for general availability, we've meaningfully improved its accuracy. Aline now better recognizes and correctly maps —for example, a master services agreement bundled together with its statements of work. Those relationships surface automatically so you always see how your agreements connect.

Legal work happens in Slack — now Aline does too. Just @mention Aline in any channel to put your contracts and workflows to work:

Coming soon: Microsoft Teams, email, and an even deeper Slack integration.

Building a review process used to take days. Now it takes a sentence. Describe the process you want in Aline AI Chat, and Aline scaffolds the whole thing — intake forms, review phases, owners, and AI actions — end to end.

Vendor procurement, NDAs, or any legal matter — go from idea to a live agentic workflow in minutes, not days.

Aline’s new agentic intake turns request workflows into active AI-powered processes. Instead of just collecting information and waiting for teams to manually triage it, Aline AI reads the intake, reviews attached vendor materials, decides what work is needed, completes low-risk steps, and routes higher-risk items to the right legal, security, privacy, compliance, or procurement owner.

## Fixes

App menus now switch more smoothly when moving between menu items, reducing extra clicks.

Document/editor scrolling is now easier to use, with scrollbars that avoid overlapping resize handles and toolbar controls.

Repository uploads now show a more compact progress panel with clearer upload status, retry/delete/restore actions, and quick access to completed documents.

Fixed AI reminder generation failures caused by an invalid structured response schema.

Fixed an editor crash that could happen when inserting a new line in complex documents.

Fixed keyboard navigation in Extraction Question setup so Tab, Shift+Tab, and Enter move focus between fields instead of closing the menu.

Fixed Document Summary behavior for self-referential related documents by showing the actual document title and a “Document is already in view” notification.

Fixed a signing workflow issue where documents could be sent for signature even when fields referenced recipients who were no longer signers.

Fixed upload failures where local files could show “File not found,” especially after switching tabs or leaving uploads queued mid-session.

Improved Filestack upload handling so upload credentials stay fresh during long sessions.