What this skill does
Deadline Tracker extracts every time-sensitive obligation from a document — court orders, procedural timetables, contracts, regulatory filings, arbitral directions — and compiles them into a structured deadline schedule. It catches the deadlines that are easy to miss: not just the main hearing date, but the notice periods, the time limits on responding to requests for disclosure, the deadlines for expert witness statements, and the procedural steps that must happen before the main event.
The skill understands how deadlines interact: it recognises that a deadline for filing a reply depends on when the opponent's statement was served, and it flags those dependencies clearly. It distinguishes between hard deadlines (miss them and you forfeit the right) and soft deadlines (where there is discretion to apply for extensions), and it applies Swiss civil procedure rules to characterise the consequences of each.
For contracts, the skill extracts not just explicit dates but also rolling deadlines — notice periods, time limits on exercising options, and renewal windows — and presents them as a structured calendar of forthcoming obligations.
When to use it
- Receiving a new court order or arbitral directions letter and needing to extract all deadlines for the matter file and docketing system
- Reviewing a commercial contract to identify all time-sensitive rights and obligations — particularly notice periods and option windows
- Preparing a matter timeline for a client briefing on the procedural steps ahead
- Running a deadline audit on a complex matter file to ensure nothing has been missed
What you get
A structured deadline schedule with: Deadline Date (explicit or calculated from a trigger event), Obligation (what must be done by that date), Responsible Party (who owns the deadline), Source (document and section reference), Consequence of Missing (forfeiture, procedural prejudice, or other consequence), Calculation Basis (how the date was derived, for rolling or triggered deadlines), and a Critical Path section identifying the three to five deadlines that are most important for the matter as a whole.
Example prompt inputs
- "Court order from Zurich Handelsgericht setting out the procedural timetable — please extract all deadlines"
- "Commercial lease agreement — please extract all notice periods, option deadlines, and rent review dates"
- "ICC arbitral procedural order — please compile a full deadline schedule and flag the dependencies"
- "Share purchase agreement — please identify all conditions to closing and the deadlines for satisfying them"
Why legal-specific AI matters here
Missing a procedural deadline in Swiss civil proceedings can result in irreversible prejudice — loss of the right to adduce evidence, closure of pleadings, or default judgment. A general AI will identify dates that appear explicitly in a document. Whisperit's Deadline Tracker understands how Swiss procedural deadlines work — the rules on dies a quo and dies ad quem, how public holidays affect deadline calculation, when a deadline falls on a weekend, and when a deadline is triggered by an event rather than a calendar date. It extracts the deadlines that actually matter, not just the ones that are easy to spot.