GitHub's legal team — lawyers and program managers with no engineering background — shares how they used GitHub Copilot CLI to build real AI-powered tools for their workflows. Two first-person accounts detail: (1) a contract drafting tool called terms-ai that cut review time roughly in half by encoding a plain-language style guide and a library of prior agreements, and (2) a DMCA code analysis workflow that evolved into a full desktop app supporting contract review, NDA triage, risk assessment, and compliance checks. Both tools were built primarily through plain-language instructions rather than traditional code, demonstrating that non-technical professionals can operationalize their domain expertise using AI tooling.
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