Design an AI contract-review workflow (clause extraction, risk flags, citations) that skeptical lawyers will actually trust
Harvey's signature design question. The twist: the architecture is the easy half. The graded half is designing for reviewer trust, where one hallucinated clause costs more than a hundred correct ones earn.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Harvey's signature design question. The twist: the architecture is the easy half. The graded half is designing for reviewer trust, where one hallucinated clause costs more than a hundred correct ones earn.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
