goHeather
goHeather is a lawyer-trained AI that drafts, reviews and compares the routine contracts teams rarely send to counsel. It handles PDFs and Word files in a web app or inside Microsoft Word, across common-law jurisdictions. Built in Toronto.
What is goHeather?
goHeather is an AI contract review and drafting platform published by 2836014 ONTARIO INC., a Toronto company that also keeps an office in San Francisco. The about page dates the company to 2021, and the application went live in February 2023. Its stated target is the everyday paperwork organizations sign without sending it to a lawyer, because the budget does not justify it: NDAs, leases, service agreements, employment contracts, distribution deals. Two products are actually delivered. AI Contract Review runs as a web application for PDFs and as a Microsoft Word add-in, returning a clause-by-clause reading with red-flag detection, risk scoring, redline suggestions, OCR for scanned documents, contextual chat, clause extraction, obligation tracking and deal abstracts. A separate contract builder produces Canadian HR documents province by province and is sold per document rather than by subscription. Two further modules, an AI Contract Generator and a Compare Documents tool, are announced as Coming Soon behind a waitlist and should not be counted as available. Under the hood, the tool mixes OpenAI, Anthropic and Google foundation models with a layer prompted and trained by lawyers, which is the difference the publisher argues against using a general chatbot. It claims jurisdiction awareness and knows which side of the table you are signing on, within common-law systems. Do-it-yourself playbooks let a team encode its own standards, written by hand or inferred from a model contract, so that every review is graded against them. A REST API and webhooks are offered on the top plan. The company is led by a named team: Jeff Dutton, founder, CEO and Chief Legal Officer, a Canadian lawyer called to the bar in 2014, with Jean-Philippe Lemieux as CTO, Maxime Dube on design and Abdi Jama on sales. goHeather is a member of the Legal Innovation Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University. It claims more than 20,000 business users and an average saving of 1,419 dollars per matter compared with a lawyer, though the user counts differ from page to page. One disclaimer runs through the whole site: this is legal information, not legal advice, and the AI can get things wrong.
What it does
- Upload a PDF or Word contract and get a clause-by-clause review back in minutes
- Spot the clauses that put you at risk, with red-light / green-light risk scoring
- Generate and apply redlines directly inside Microsoft Word, with tracked changes
- Apply an in-house playbook so your own standards are enforced on every contract
- Chat with the AI about a specific clause to have it explained, rewritten or completed
- Extract obligations, deadlines, parties and renewal dates into a deal abstract
- Export insights, checklists and annotations to the other side or to your own counsel
When to use goHeather / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if goHeather is the right fit.
When to use goHeather
- Small and mid-sized businesses with no in-house legal department, which sign routine paperwork without sending it to outside counsel
- In-house legal teams, small law firms and fractional general counsel who need a fast first pass on high-volume, lower-risk contracts
- Procurement, sales, finance and operations staff who negotiate NDAs, service agreements, leases and distribution deals themselves
- Microsoft Word users who want to review, redline and rewrite clauses without ever leaving the document they are already working in
- Canadian employers who need province-specific employment, contractor and NDA documents from the separate contract builder
When not to use goHeather
- Anyone looking for legal advice: goHeather provides legal information only, no solicitor-client privilege attaches to what you send, and the site itself points complex or highly specific matters back to a lawyer
- Teams handling confidential or privileged material, since the terms explicitly ask users not to upload documents of that kind
- Businesses contracting under civil-law systems, as the publisher only claims coverage of common-law jurisdictions
- Mobile-first users: the FAQ states that a browser on a PC or Mac is required and that the service cannot be used on a phone
- Employees rather than employers, and anyone outside Canada, as far as the contract builder templates are concerned
How to use goHeather
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create a free account at v2.goheather.io/login: no credit card and no demo call are required
- Upload your contract by dragging a PDF or pasting text into the web app, or open the document in Word with the goHeather add-in
- Choose the depth of analysis and, if you have one, apply a playbook so the review is graded against your own standards
- Let the analysis run in the background: you can close the tab, and an email tells you when the review is ready
- Read the insights clause by clause, sorted by risk and filterable by importance or by their order in the contract
- Accept, adjust or reject the suggested redlines, either in Word or in the web editor
- Use the contextual chat to have a clause explained, rewritten or completed
- Export the result - checklist, annotations, proposed version - to the other party or to your own lawyer
- For Canadian HR paperwork, answer the contract builder questionnaire, preview the document for free and pay only if it fits
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Contract-specific AI, prompted and trained by lawyers, rather than a general-purpose chatbot
- Permanent free plan and an immediate free trial with no credit card and no mandatory demo
- Works inside Microsoft Word, where legal and business teams already draft and negotiate
- DIY playbooks turn a company's own standards into rules applied systematically to every review
- Jurisdiction awareness and side-of-the-deal awareness across common-law systems
- Explicit commitment that customer data, contracts included, is never used to train the models, on top of AWS encryption at rest, TLS 1.3, SSO and audit logging
- Readable pricing on both products: 200 USD per month for review, or 64.75 dollars per document with no subscription on the contract builder
Cons
- Two of the four products in the navigation bar, the AI Contract Generator and Compare Documents, are still Coming Soon behind a waitlist: the storefront promises more than the product delivers
- No data processing agreement is offered and no Article 27 EU representative is appointed; the privacy policy is built on PIPEDA rather than on the GDPR
- All data is hosted in the United States, the data residency options mentioned on the security page are never detailed, and the full subprocessor list is only available on request
- The terms ask users not to upload confidential or privileged documents, a heavy constraint for a contract tool, and no clause states that you keep ownership of what you upload
- The Starter plan advertises unlimited contract reviews but is capped at 600,000 characters per month, credits do not roll over, and refunds are not pro-rated
- The Team plan carries no public price and requires a demo, while the 200 USD monthly entry point is steep for occasional use
- No mobile use at all (a PC or Mac browser is mandatory), and the site contradicts itself: adoption figures range from 15,000+ to 20,000+ depending on the page, the pricing meta description still says $99/month, and the refund page misspells the support address as help@goheather.ai
Pricing & Plans
goHeather offers a permanent free plan, which allows one contract to be reviewed with limited credits and a shallower level of insight. The lowest paid entry point is the Starter plan at 200.00 USD per month for one seat, or 2,000.00 USD per year with the announced 20% annual discount. The Team plan, from two seats upwards, is quoted on request after a demo. The Canadian HR contract builder is sold outside any subscription, at 64.75 dollars per document. The free trial requires no credit card, payments are processed by Stripe, Starter can be cancelled at any time, and refunds are not pro-rated.
- permanent free account
- one contract review
- limited credits and insight depth
- less advanced AI models
- 200 USD per month
- or 2
- 000 USD per year with the 20% annual discount. One seat
- unlimited reviews within a 600
- 000-character monthly cap
- Microsoft Word add-in
- DIY playbooks
- web editor
- quoted on request after a demo. Two seats and up
- pooled credits
- version comparison
- obligation tracking
- team playbooks
- SSO
- REST API and webhooks
- trainable AI model
- 64.75 dollars per contract
- free preview before payment
- and up to five edits of the finished document
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how goHeather handles your data.
GDPR overview
goHeather's privacy policy is built on Canada's PIPEDA, not the GDPR, and names the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Quebec's Commission d'accès à l'information as recourse bodies. The security page claims to be GDPR-ready with data deletion capabilities, with CCPA compliance features built in and data residency options available, but nowhere states plain GDPR compliance. No Article 27 EU representative and no data protection officer are named, and no data processing agreement is offered or mentioned. Users may request access and rectification and withdraw consent at any time by writing to help@goheather.io; consent is deemed given through use of the service. All data is hosted in the United States, with no named transfer safeguard such as standard contractual clauses. The policy has applied since May 2024.
Who owns the data?
The terms state that goHeather and its affiliates own all rights, title and interest in the Services; nowhere does the site state that you keep ownership of the documents you upload, which is a notable gap for a contract tool. The publisher stores everything you upload or generate - "we save everything you upload or input" - and undertakes never to sell that content or your personal information, except in the sale, reorganization, bankruptcy or receivership of its own business, or a transition of service to another provider. Payments run through Stripe, and card numbers are not stored by goHeather.
Reuse rights
The full text of every document you upload is passed to third-party AI APIs - OpenAI, Anthropic and Google - to produce the analysis. goHeather states that neither it nor its AI partners train models on customer data, and that those APIs keep limited request logs for up to 30 days, solely for abuse monitoring. The results are meant to be reused freely: insights, checklists, annotations and proposed versions can be exported and sent to the other party or to your own lawyer, and no permission step is described anywhere. The terms add, more vaguely, that the publisher also uses this data to help improve its services, without saying what "improve" covers. Log data, analytics and usage data are collected, and cookies serve both analytics and advertising. Gmail, AWS, TypeForm, Intercom, Auth0 and OpenAI are named among the service providers involved.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
goHeather's core application and customer data are hosted in the United States on AWS, encrypted at rest, with TLS 1.3 in transit. The publisher claims more than 25 security controls, environment isolation, DDoS protection and audit logging, and names Vercel, Supabase and Auth0 among the tools in its stack. The full text of an uploaded contract is passed to third-party AI APIs - OpenAI, Anthropic and Google - which keep limited request logs for up to 30 days, for abuse monitoring only. Two points stay vague. The underlying cloud platforms are described as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS certified, but that certification belongs to those platforms, not to goHeather itself, which holds no certification of its own. And data residency options are announced on the security page without any detail on which regions are possible, or on what terms. The publisher indicates that limited metadata or specific processing may transit through other subprocessors, and that the complete list is obtained by writing to it rather than published on the site. No EU hosting option is documented and no European entity is declared.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting goHeather.
- The terms explicitly ask you not to upload confidential or privileged documents, and state that no communication with goHeather is protected by solicitor-client privilege: think carefully about what you send
- The publisher acknowledges in writing that its AI can and does make mistakes and is known to hallucinate; nothing guarantees that a reviewed or generated contract is enforceable
- Leaning on a fast automated read can dull the habit of reading a contract closely yourself, and can push a non-lawyer to sign something the tool scored green without understanding why
- Everything you upload or produce is kept by the publisher with no stated retention period, and no clause confirms that you remain the owner of your documents
- The full text of your contracts is transmitted to third-party AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and hosted in the United States, with no named EU transfer safeguard, no DPA and no Article 27 representative
- The publisher reserves the right to terminate your access at any time and advises keeping your own local copy of every document
- Marketing claims do not always match the fine print: unlimited reviews are capped at 600,000 characters a month, credits do not roll over, refunds are not pro-rated, SOC 2 appears in meta descriptions while the page body attributes that certification to the underlying cloud platforms rather than to goHeather, and adoption figures differ from page to page
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very easy for the main use. A free account takes minutes, needs no credit card and no prior demo, and the web application requires no installation: you drag a PDF in and read the review. The Microsoft Word add-in is a one-click install from Microsoft AppSource. No legal training is required, since the product is designed for non-lawyers, and playbook configuration is optional, with free one-to-one Zoom sessions with a lawyer offered to set them up. Only the Team plan's SSO and REST API turn the deployment into a real IT project.
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Frequently asked questions
Does goHeather replace a lawyer?
Which file formats does it handle?
Is there a free version?
How much does the paid version cost?
Are my contracts used to train the AI?
Where is my data hosted?
Which jurisdictions are covered?
Is there a mobile app?
Is there an API?
Is a data processing agreement available?
Should you pick goHeather?
goHeather is credible on the niche it has chosen: the routine contracts that teams without an in-house legal function sign anyway. Its strengths are consistent - an AI prompted and trained by lawyers rather than a general chatbot, a Word add-in that puts the review where the drafting already happens, and playbooks that turn a company's own standards into rules applied to every document. The weaknesses are just as clear. Data governance is thin for a European buyer: no data processing agreement, no Article 27 representative, a privacy policy built on Canada's PIPEDA, and all hosting in the United States. The storefront also runs ahead of the product, with two of the four advertised modules still sitting on a waitlist, and the Starter plan's unlimited reviews capped at 600,000 characters a month. Pricing splits the audience. At 200 USD per month the entry plan is expensive for occasional use, but the separate contract builder answers exactly that case at 64.75 dollars per document, with a free preview and payment only if the result fits. The permanent free plan and the card-free trial mean the tool can be judged on your own contracts before any commitment, which is the sensible way to approach it. One caution deserves repeating, because it comes from the publisher itself: goHeather provides legal information, not legal advice, no privilege attaches to what you upload, the terms ask you not to send confidential or privileged documents, and the AI is acknowledged to make mistakes. Treat its output as a fast, structured first pass that helps you ask better questions, and keep a lawyer for anything complex, high-value or unfamiliar.
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