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AI Legal Risk Triage

Find the AI legal exposure buyers will surface first.

A five-minute triage maps your AI risk across four areas investors and acquirers consistently probe: data rights, output ownership, customer and vendor contracts, and internal governance. Receive a personalized risk profile, prioritized actions, and a printable personalized brief.

Start the 5-minute triage 12 questions · No login · Inline result
Sample output · preview
Your AI Risk Profile
Risk score: 67 / 94 — Material exposure
DATA RIGHTS CONTRACTS GOVERNANCE OWNERSHIP
── HIGHEST RISK: DATA RIGHTS, OWNERSHIP
— How the triage works

Twelve questions. Four critical areas. One personalized brief.

STEP 01

Answer 12 questions

Multiple-choice questions covering how your team uses, builds, and contracts around AI. Each answer is weighted by the level of legal exposure it represents.

STEP 02

Add contact details

After the categorical questions, add your contact details and permission acknowledgment so the report summary can be routed correctly.

STEP 03

See your radar

Receive a four-axis risk profile with color-coded zones and your three most urgent issues identified by area.

STEP 04

Receive the summary

Your score, tier, and three prioritized posture actions render inline and are queued for email follow-up through HighLevel.

— The four risk areas

The areas where AI legal problems start before they show up in diligence.

Most AI legal exposure isn't created at launch. It accumulates across four areas where business pace outruns documentation. This triage maps each one.

A · Data Rights

What data does the model use, and on what basis?

Training inputs, customer data flows, retention, deletion, and documented rights to use the data the way the system uses it.

B · Output Ownership

Who owns what the system produces?

Employee and contractor IP assignment for AI-assisted work, invention disclosure rhythm, and whether outputs are protectable at all.

C · Contracts

Do your terms match your actual use?

Customer-facing AI claims, vendor terms on training and retention, and indemnity provisions in inbound and outbound contracts.

D · Governance

Who approves, who reports, who owns it?

Written AI use policy, approval authority for new tools and use cases, and the cadence of leadership and board-level reporting.

— What you receive

A profile your leadership team can act on.

The brief is engineered to drop into an executive conversation or a board memo. Plain language. Practical. Whiteford-branded.

  • Risk score across four areas, color-coded by exposure level
  • Three highest-priority actions ranked by likelihood of surfacing in diligence
  • Report summary delivered through the approved HighLevel workflow
  • Optional follow-up consultation scheduled in two clicks
Start the 5-minute triage
WHITEFORD · SCHELL IP SAMPLE RESULT
AI Legal Risk Profile
Prepared for [your company] · inline result + email summary
DATA RIGHTS
18 / 24
CONTRACTS
14 / 24
OWNERSHIP
19 / 24
GOVERNANCE
16 / 22
PRIORITIZED ACTIONS
1. Document training-data lineage before next investor update.
2. Update contractor IP assignments to address AI-assisted work.
3. Designate AI approval owner and document four current tools.
Jeff Schell

Jeff Schell

Managing Partner, Mountain West · Whiteford Taylor & Preston · Patent Attorney · AI Advisor

Jeff Schell is Managing Partner of Whiteford's Mountain West practice and an AI legal advisor to technology companies. A patent attorney, venture capitalist, and former two-time founder, he works at the intersection of intellectual property, AI risk, and venture growth. Since 2012, his work has supported the creation of over $100 million in transaction and enterprise value across Colorado's technology ecosystem.