First, a few words about how we came up with the constructor.
It was a distant 2003. I, Dmitry Bolshakov, worked as a lawyer in the largest private bank in the country and was thinking about how to get rid of routine work: the same type of legal questions from managers, the same type of document approval, the same legal opinions.
But a lawyer should be engaged in the study of legal problems, solving non-standard legal issues, thinking, analyzing.
At that time, I was fond of creating electronic presentations and mastered the program for creating them, where there was a simple scripting programming language similar to basic.
And suddenly a simple idea came to my mind: you can make a system that will ask the user questions to create a legal opinion. The same questions that a lawyer usually investigates. Using my modest knowledge of programming, I created a prototype of such a system. I called my program “Legal Expertise” and implemented it in Petrocommerce Bank, Promsvyazbank, Genbank, AMT-Bank. Later, chatbots, FAQ systems appeared on the market and I realized that I had created a legal chatbot :)
The following idea came to my mind:
what if we give lawyers a tool with which they can create legal expert systems and document designers on their own, without knowledge of programming languages?
A couple of years later, I went on vacation to Mexico and during the trip I met an experienced and talented developer who helped me with the implementation of this idea. We drew the first prototype on napkins while sitting in a small Mexican cafe :)
We created this constructor in such a way that it is convenient for lawyers. I myself automated legal due diligence using the constructor, so I always gave the developer feedback on how and what should be improved in the constructor.
As a result, we have made a very simple and flexible constructor, which is suitable both for generating variable documents and for creating complex expert systems.
Then there were projects with Sberbank Factoring, VTB, Karma investment platform, Moscow State Law Academy (MSLA), Vista law firm, with a notary, for whom we made a notary services price calculator in the constructor, and with other clients.
Now the constructor is a universal low-code tool that, without programming, lawyers and other professionals can quickly automate their activities by creating document constructors, expert systems, FAQ services, calculators, chat bots, customer support services, tests and other software.
As a result, we have made a very simple and flexible constructor, which is suitable for both generating variable documents and creating complex expert systems.
We pay special attention to the ease of use of the constructor. I am proud to say that after holding a hackathon at Moscow State Law Academy, where, along with our constructor, students and teachers used one of the most famous document constructor in the Russian Federation, I received feedback from users that the Botman.one document constructor is much easier to learn and use.