Incoming contracts are checked against your standard positions, with each difference marked

Each contract is compared clause by clause with your playbook. Every difference is marked in Word with your standard clause beside it, for your lawyer to decide.

Used day to day by
  • Legal team
  • Salespeople
  • Purchase team

How it runs with AI

The AI reads each contract as it arrives, finds the clauses your playbook covers and compares each one with your standard position. Every difference is marked in the Word file with your standard clause as a suggested edit, and any clause on a new topic goes to a lawyer to read. Your lawyers start from a marked-up draft and decide each position.

How it is done today

Sales and procurement teams email contracts from customers and vendors to the legal team. A lawyer reads each one in full, looks up the standard position on payment, liability and termination in the playbook on SharePoint, and types comments into Word. A one-page NDA waits in the same queue as a long supply agreement, so deals wait days for a first review.

Step by step

Where the work happens, what the AI does, and where it hands over to a person.

  1. Step 1, AI

    Picks up each contract sent to the legal review inbox

    Needs to know: Contract types in scope

    In Outlook

  2. Step 2, AI

    Reads the contract and finds every clause your playbook covers

    Needs to know: Topics the playbook covers

    In Microsoft Word

  3. Step 3, AI

    Compares each clause with your standard position in the playbook

    Needs to know: Standard positions, Approved fallbacks

    In SharePoint , Microsoft Word

    Exception to step 3

    Sends any clause on a topic outside the playbook to a lawyer to read in full

  4. Step 4, AI

    Adds your standard clause as a suggested edit at each difference

    Needs to know: Standard clause wording

    In Microsoft Word

  5. Step 5, Person

    Decides which positions to hold and sends the draft back

    In Microsoft Word , Outlook

What stays with a person

  • Decides which positions to hold and sends the draft back

Apps in this example

  • Outlook
  • Microsoft Word
  • SharePoint

The same flow works with the apps you use.

This fits you if

  • Your legal team reviews more than 50 incoming contracts a month
  • You have written standard positions for payment, liability, indemnity and termination, or want to write them down
  • Contracts reach legal by email as Word or PDF files
  • Business teams wait days for a first review of routine contracts

What to watch for

  • Your lawyers decide every legal position. The automation marks each difference and suggests your standard clause; accepting their wording or a fallback stays with the lawyer
  • The playbook is the reference, so it has to be current. When a position changes, the lawyer who owns that topic updates the playbook, and the next review uses the new wording
  • Scanned PDFs and contracts in other languages need a person to check the reading before anyone relies on the comparison
  • Contracts are confidential. Check where the AI service processes and stores them before the first contract goes through

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