Using the Navigator to Rapidly Solve Legal Outcomes

Learning objectives

The lawyer is always the actor; Navigator is the instrument. Each objective is tagged with its Bloom verb:

• Remember — name the four Navigator nouns and locate each in the workspace glossary.
• Understand — explain why every glossary noun is a database table.
• Apply — add AIDA to Gemini and create a Project; write a deed template and bind it as a notation.
• Analyze — run the transactional checklist and identify which checks pass and which fail.
• Evaluate — review a peer's notation and propose one kaizen improvement.
• Create — advance the notarization workflow step and deliver a three-minute demo.

The running matter

The class works one matter together so every example aligns:

• Project — Henderson Bungalow Purchase
• Buyer — Virgo (the value bound to {{client_name}})
• Property — a single-family residence in Henderson, NV
• Workflow step — notarization_pending → notarized → signed

How Navigator works

Navigator grounds your LLM output in a deterministic, shared glossary backed by database tables. The noun ladder:

1. Project — the matter ("Henderson Bungalow Purchase").
2. Template — a markdown blueprint with {{placeholders}} and a workflow declaration.
3. Notation — one Person bound to one Template inside one Project, advancing through a workflow.
4. Workflow — the state machine the Notation walks.
5. Signed — the lawyer's own work product.

Install (no install)

The class uses Gemini's "Add AIDA" connector. About ninety seconds:

• Open your Gemini workspace and click Add connector.
• Paste the workshop's connector URL (the instructor will display it).
• Authenticate with your firm Google account, and confirm.

Tool calls are just prompts with specific words

Every "tool call" is a regular Gemini prompt with one or two words that route it through Navigator. Try one:

"AIDA, create a project named Henderson Bungalow Purchase."

Build the template

Write a small markdown template for a deed of sale. The minimum body for the class:

# Deed of Sale

This Deed is made between {{client_name}} ("Buyer") and the named Seller for the property described
herein. Choice of law: Nevada. Buyer's signature must be acknowledged by a Nevada notary public under
Nevada's Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (NRS 240.161 to 240.169).

Buyer: ______________________
Date:  ______________________

Run the transactional checklist

The checklist is the same list you run in your head: choice of law, privilege, confidentiality, active voice, inclusive language. Ask AIDA:

"AIDA, run the transactional checklist on this notation and tell me what fails."

When AIDA asks before she acts

One rule on the A2A connector: reads run, writes wait. A write pauses and asks first:

"Authorize this action? AIDA wants to Send Welcome Email for Virgo… Reply yes to authorize, or no to cancel."

Notarize and demo

Advance the notation: draft → staff_review → notarization_pending → notarized → signed. For the three-minute demo:

1. The matter ("Henderson Bungalow Purchase, buyer Virgo").
2. The template you wrote (show the markdown).
3. The notation you bound (show the rendered deed).
4. The one checklist failure you found and fixed.
5. The workflow advance to notarized.

Why this matters

A harness — a deterministic checklist applied every time — is how routine legal work gets cheap enough to reach the people priced out of it today.

Form a Nevada LLC from the command line

The same CLI forms a real Nevada LLC end to end — no browser — and downloads the filled official Nevada Secretary of State packet:

navigator login https://your-firm.example
navigator matter open --template onboarding__nest --client-email libra@example.com
navigator intake answer <notation-id>
navigator notation status <notation-id>
navigator notation approve <notation-id>
navigator notation document <notation-id> --out llc.pdf