Draftora

A client calls while you're on the road and needs something today. A quote, a confirmation letter, the engagement contract you promised on Tuesday.

Right now the answer is usually "I'll send it tonight", because drafting means a laptop and a template folder. For a small firm that's a real cost, and it's the gap I want to close.

So, mobile app. The web version is ported and running, which was the easy part. The harder question turned out to be who's in control.

On desktop the user drives. You've got the whole draft in front of you, you jump to the clause that needs work, you decide what happens next. That works fine when you can see everything at once. On a phone you can't, so the relationship has to flip around and the user follows instead. One question, one screen, forward.

That only works if the system is worth following. I don't want a hardcoded wizard with a fixed branch per document type, because it ages badly and falls apart the moment someone drafts something slightly unusual. It has to work out what you're actually drafting and lead from there, asking the things that change the outcome and skipping whatever an earlier answer already settled.

Still working out how far a system-led flow can go before it starts feeling like it's guessing at what you want. If you've built something that leads the user through a non-trivial task, I'd be interested in where you drew that line.