Comments are where a lot of contract negotiation happens. A counterparty flags a liability cap, an internal reviewer asks for a shorter term, a colleague notes a missing schedule. AI Chat can now read the open comment threads in a document, work out what each one asks for, and make the changes as tracked changes. You review them the way you would review a colleague's redline, then accept or reject each one.

This is most useful when you have a set of comments from a reviewer and want a first pass of revisions before you respond.

AI Chat will reply to comment threads, resolve comments after making the change, and leave its own comments where it spots something for a person to check.

Deal records in Salesforce often hold terms that belong in the contract, such as quotes, billing schedules, and other custom objects. Aline Templates can now pull that data into a document. When a workflow links to an Opportunity or Account, related custom objects appear in the template field picker under their own groups.

Values are read from the CRM to fill the document. Nothing is written back. HubSpot custom objects on deals work the same way.

AI Properties answer questions like "When does this expire?" or "Does it auto-renew?" Admins can now send those answers to Salesforce or HubSpot, so sales and finance see the key terms next to the deal without opening the contract.

Your CRM admin still controls field-level security and page layouts. After the field is created, add it to the page layout and grant access to the users who should see it. Only org admins can change CRM sync settings. Everyone can see the status.

Admins can connect a public GitHub repository and import its AI Skills into Aline. Aline lists the skills in the repository, and you choose which ones to bring in. This lets your team maintain a shared skill library in one place and bring updates into Aline when you're ready.

Ask Aline AI to update a playbook, or hand it a redline from a deal you just closed, and it proposes changes as tracked changes. Each change comes with its reasoning, and nothing takes effect until you accept it.

The AI chat can now answer questions across your whole repository or a single report, such as "What governing law do most of our NDAs use?" You get a counted answer with links to the documents behind it.

Aline now detects signatures when you upload a PDF, marks signed agreements as Signed and shows you where each signature is. Signature Detection is in Beta, and an admin can turn it on in your organization settings.

Skills package your team's way of doing a task, like reviewing a vendor MSA or marking up an NDA, together with your templates and fallback language. Anyone can run a skill from the AI chat. Start with Aline's ready-made skills or ask the chat to build one for you.

This release adds three things legal teams have been asking for.

Most legal teams track reviews in email threads, and you often can't tell whose turn it is. Aline Reviews fixes that for internal reviewers and counterparties alike.

The same flow works for internal approvers such as finance, sales leadership or the business owner. They request changes, you respond, and the task always shows whose move it is.

Questions like "which customers gave us logo rights?" or "what do our liability caps look like across MSAs?" used to take a paralegal and a spreadsheet.

Now you ask Aline AI.

Go to AI Reports, click , and choose . Describe what you want to know, and attach a sample agreement if that helps. For example:

Aline AI reads your documents and proposes a report. It reuses columns you already have and adds new ones for renewal terms, termination mechanisms, warranties and remedies, and anything else you asked for. It also filters the report to the right contract type. Review the plan, approve it, and run AI across the whole set. In the demo, it built a full MSA report across 81 agreements in minutes.

It's useful for renewal planning, audit and diligence prep, or answering the CFO's question before the end of the day.

A lot of legal work begins outside the contract system, in an email with redlines attached or a call where the business agreed to terms.

Agent Connectors give Aline AI access to those sources.

The first four connectors are , , and . Connect them under .

Each connector has separate read-only and read-write permissions, so you can let Aline AI read email without letting it send anything.

Ask Aline AI to "look in my Gmail for the latest NDA redlines and apply our NDA playbook." It finds the counterparty's email, pulls the attached redline, and runs your playbook against it. You never download or upload a file.

Over the next few weeks we're adding connectors to the systems your business already runs on. Each one comes with the same read and write permission controls.

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.