# What is Clause9?

Clause9 is an advanced legal document drafting platform designed to improve the contract drafting process. Clause9 rests on three pillars:

1. Improving your organisation’s contract drafting **knowledge management** by centrally storing intelligent clauses and templates in a library. 
2. Increasing **contract drafting efficiency** by quickly stacking intelligent clauses on top of each other while Clause9 takes care of all the clean-up work. 
3. **Outsourcing contract creation** via template questionnaires. 

When you start working with Clause9, you first need to upload clauses to the platform. You can do this individually per clause, or by importing them from a Microsoft Word document. At that stage, you can choose the desired level of intelligence you wish to add to the clauses. Examples include:

* Creating defined terminology and setting up cross-references via [concepts](https://help.clause9.com/concepts) 
* Indicating [variable fields of information](https://help.clause9.com/datafields)
* Adding [conditions](https://help.clause9.com/clauses/writing-conditions)
* Introducing grammatical flexibility
* And much more! 

If this is your first time working with Clause9, we suggest you head over to the [Tutorials website](https://app.gitbook.com/o/D29EfhZEgFjD2SF7gJ2H/s/NogsS3my2OAAEEYy1TeZ/) where you can find the tutorials specifically tailored to the user profile your organisation has chosen for you.