An assistant for the first read of a contract. It extracts the clauses that matter, compares each with the positions in your approved playbook, flags what deviates or is missing, and hands a marked-up summary to a qualified reviewer. It gives no legal advice.

Most contracts a business signs are routine, and all of them need reading. A lawyer or contract manager works through forty pages to find the six clauses that differ from the standard. The routine ones take time that the unusual ones deserve. Sales waits, the counterparty chases, and somewhere a contract is signed after a skim because the queue was too long.

This page describes a workflow we propose to build as a custom project. It does not exist as software yet. It would reuse the extraction with source references from our invoice and tender demonstrations, where every extracted value keeps the line it came from. Clause extraction, playbook comparison and the review summary are not built.

02In practice

How One Request Moves Through

An example of one case, in 6 steps. The same steps play in the picture at the top of this page.

STEP 01

Contract received

Sales forwards a customer's own terms for a new deal.

STEP 02

Clauses extracted

The agent finds the key clauses and links each to its page and paragraph.

STEP 03

Compared

Liability is capped at a lower amount than your fallback position allows.

STEP 04

Gap found

There is no data protection clause, which your playbook requires for this kind of service.

STEP 05

Summary prepared

The reviewer sees two deviations and one missing clause, each beside your position.

STEP 06

Lawyer decides

Counsel reviews, proposes changes to the customer and records the final positions.

03Contract review agent

Six jobs it carries through

Clause extraction

Finds the clauses that matter.

Liability, indemnity and termination
Payment, renewal and notice
Data protection and confidentiality
Governing law and jurisdiction

Works inContract documents

Where it stopsEach clause links to its place in the document.

04Before

How the Work Is Done Today

Forty pages for six clauses

The reviewer reads everything to find what differs.

Playbooks in people's heads

The standard positions are known to two senior lawyers.

Missing clauses

What is absent is harder to spot than what is wrong.

Skimmed under pressure

The queue is long and the deal is urgent.

Automation that advises

A tool tells a salesperson a clause is "fine".

No link to the text

A summary states a term and nobody can find it in the document.

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What We Need to Scope This

The process as it runs today, in a few lines.
The systems it touches, for example contract documents, playbook, contract repository, legal queue.
Rough monthly volume, and who approves what.

Request a quote Book a 30-minute callA quote starts from a written scope, so that the figure means something.

05Systems

Where It Connects

The systems named here are the kind this agent works with. Which ones it connects to in your case is settled in the scope.

Contract documents

Word and PDF agreements

Playbook

Your approved positions and fallback wording

Contract repository

Where contracts and versions are stored

Legal queue

Your matter or ticketing tool

Risk rules

What you treat as high risk

Signature

Your e-signature process, outside the agent

06Operating boundaries

A First Read for a Lawyer, Not a Legal Opinion

This is an assistant to qualified reviewers. It reports how a contract compares with a playbook your own lawyers approved, and links every statement to the contract text. It does not say whether a clause is acceptable, advise anyone on legal risk or communicate with the other party.

Contracts are confidential. They are processed inside the environment you approve, and the agent's output goes only to your reviewers.

Every statement linked to the text
Compared with your approved playbook
Missing clauses reported
No advice beyond the playbook
A qualified person reviews everything
Confidential documents kept in your environment

07Questions

Asked Before the First Call

Does it give legal advice or approve contracts?

No. It compares a contract with your approved playbook and shows a qualified reviewer where it differs. Whether to accept, negotiate or refuse a term is a legal judgement made by your lawyers. It is not a substitute for one.

How is this different from the contract obligation agent?

Review happens before signature and asks whether the terms match your positions. Obligation tracking happens after signature and asks what you now have to do, and by when. The terms extracted here feed the obligation agent.

What does it need from us?

A written playbook: your preferred position and acceptable fallbacks for each key clause. Many legal teams have this informally. Writing it down is the first step, and it is valuable for training and consistency whatever else you build.

What exists today?

Not as software yet. This page describes a proposed workflow. It would reuse the extraction with source references from our invoice and tender demonstrations, where every extracted value keeps the line it came from. Clause extraction, playbook comparison and the review summary are not built. A project starts by mapping your process, then proving the first steps on test data before anything touches a live system.

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Bring ten you have already reviewed. We will compare the agent's findings with your reviewers' notes on the same ten.

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