The Finance plugin turns Cowork into a financial analysis partner. It covers three major areas:

Cash Flow Analysis — Understanding where money is coming from and where it is going is fundamental to business health. The Finance plugin can help you analyze cash flow statements, identify trends, flag anomalies, and project future cash positions. You can give it your financial data and ask questions in plain language: "What are our top three expense categories by growth rate?" or "When will we need to raise additional capital at current burn rate?"

Financial Modeling — Building financial models is time-consuming and error-prone. The Finance plugin can help you construct models, run sensitivity analyses, and stress-test assumptions. Describe the scenario you want to model — a new product launch, an acquisition, a hiring plan — and Cowork builds a structured model with clear assumptions, calculations, and outputs.

This does not mean Cowork builds your final board-ready model from scratch. It means Cowork gives you a strong first draft that captures the right structure and logic, which you then refine with your domain expertise and specific data.

Metrics Tracking — Every business tracks KPIs, but keeping them organized and interpreting them consistently is a challenge. The Finance plugin helps you define, calculate, and track metrics over time. It can pull data from connected sources, calculate period-over-period changes, and highlight metrics that are trending outside expected ranges.

The Legal plugin is built around three core capabilities: contract review, risk flagging, and compliance tracking. Its most distinctive feature is the clause-highlighting system that uses a traffic-light color scheme to help you quickly assess contract risk.

Contract Review — The Legal plugin can analyze contracts of all types: NDAs, service agreements, employment contracts, vendor agreements, licensing deals, and more. When you provide a contract, Cowork reads it thoroughly and provides a structured summary: key terms, obligations, timelines, termination conditions, liability provisions, and anything unusual or non-standard.

The `/review-contract` slash command is the fastest way to trigger this analysis. Provide the contract document, and Cowork delivers a comprehensive review.

The Clause-Highlighting System — This is where the Legal plugin really shines. When reviewing a contract, Cowork categorizes every significant clause using a three-color system:

- Green — Standard, fair, and acceptable. These clauses follow common market terms and do not require special attention. They are boilerplate done right.

- Yellow — Potentially risky or non-standard. These clauses deserve closer review. They might include unusual liability terms, aggressive non-compete language, broad indemnification provisions, or one-sided termination rights. They are not necessarily deal-breakers, but you should understand what you are agreeing to.

- Red — Critical issues that require immediate attention. These clauses contain significant risk: unlimited liability exposure, overly broad IP assignment, problematic data handling terms, or provisions that could seriously harm your interests. Do not sign without addressing these.

This traffic-light system lets you quickly triage a contract. If everything is green, you can move forward with confidence. If there are yellow items, you review them carefully. If there are red items, you involve legal counsel before proceeding.

Beyond individual contract review, the Legal plugin helps with ongoing compliance tracking. Regulatory requirements change, contractual obligations accumulate, and keeping track of everything manually is a recipe for missed deadlines and oversights.

The Legal plugin can help you:

- Track compliance deadlines — Renewal dates, regulatory filing deadlines, certification expirations, audit schedules. Cowork can maintain a compliance calendar and alert you to upcoming deadlines.

- Monitor regulatory changes — When connected to relevant sources through MCP connectors, Cowork can flag regulatory updates that affect your business. A new data privacy regulation in a market you operate in, updated export control rules, changes to industry-specific compliance requirements.

- Maintain obligation registers — Every contract creates obligations. The Legal plugin can help you maintain a register of what you have committed to across all your agreements — service levels, data handling requirements, reporting obligations, and more.

This compliance layer is especially valuable for growing companies where the volume of contracts and regulations increases faster than the team can track manually. It does not replace a compliance team, but it makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.

The Finance and Legal plugins are natural partners. Consider these combined workflows:

M&A Due Diligence — Use the Finance plugin to analyze the target's financial statements and build valuation models. Use the Legal plugin to review the acquisition agreement, flag risk clauses, and track compliance obligations you would be inheriting. Both analyses feed into a comprehensive due diligence picture.

Vendor Evaluation — Use the Finance plugin to analyze the total cost of ownership of a new vendor. Use the Legal plugin to review the vendor agreement and flag unfavorable terms. The financial analysis tells you if you can afford it; the legal analysis tells you if you should agree to it.

Fundraising — Use the Finance plugin to build your financial model and projections. Use the Legal plugin to review term sheets, flag investor-friendly terms that you should negotiate, and understand the obligations you are taking on.

In each case, the plugins bring different lenses to the same decision, giving you a more complete picture than either could provide alone.