AI contract review that tells you what to negotiate
Upload the MSA, the NDA, the lease or the subcontract, say which side of it you are on, and get back the two things a summary never gives you: every risky clause quoted with its worst case spelled out, and drafted counter-language sorted into what you must win, what is worth pushing, and what to let go.
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What is AI contract review?
Contract review means finding out what a bargain actually says before you’re bound by it — your obligations, the risks you’ve quietly absorbed, and what the other side’s draft left out. AI contract review does that first pass: it reads the agreement end to end, quotes every material clause, and drafts the wording you’d send back. The first two hours of the job, not the judgement at the end of it.
6:14 PM · Twelfth agreement this week
The problem it solves
Contracts are long, the risk is concentrated in four or five clauses, and those clauses are written to look ordinary. The cost is not the reading — it is reading carefully enough, on the twelfth agreement of the week, at six o’clock.
What it actually does
Reads every clause rather than sampling. Compares each against what is market standard for that kind of agreement. Names what is missing. Rates the risk to the party you told it you act for. Then drafts the alternative language.
What it does not do
It does not decide, and it does not sign. Where a term’s effect depends on facts that are not in the document, it says so rather than guessing. You remain the person answerable for the advice.
One document type among nineteen
If what is on your desk is a will, a court filing, a privacy policy or a settlement rather than a commercial agreement, the same engine handles it — see AI document review. This page stays scoped to contracts: the clauses that decide a commercial deal.
The twelve clauses that decide the deal
A contract review is not a summary with extra steps. It is a search for a specific, known set of failure modes — the clauses where commercial agreements actually go wrong, and the ones that quietly are not there at all.
Indemnities
The clause that most often turns a fixed-fee deal into unlimited exposure. Checked for whether it is mutual, whether it is capped, and whether it reaches claims caused by the other side's own failure.
Limitation of liability
Whether the cap is symmetrical, what it is a multiple of, and which carve-outs sit outside it. An asymmetric cap paired with an uncapped indemnity is the single most common trap in supplier-drafted terms.
Term, renewal and exit
Auto-renewal windows, notice periods, termination for convenience and for cause, and what survives. A ninety-day renewal notice on a twelve-month term is a diary entry you cannot afford to miss.
Payment and price change
Payment terms, late-payment interest, uplift mechanics, and whether the other side can raise the price mid-term without giving you a way out.
IP and data
Who owns what was made, who owns what went in, what licence survives termination, and whether your data comes back in a usable form when the relationship ends.
Confidentiality
How wide the definition runs, how long the obligation lasts, and whether the carve-outs — compelled disclosure, information already public, independently developed — are actually there.
Dispute resolution and governing law
Arbitration versus court, seat and forum, and whether the governing law clause points somewhere that makes the rest of the contract mean something different from what you assumed.
Assignment and change of control
Whether the counterparty can hand the contract to someone you would never have signed with — including a competitor — and whether your own consent right is real or subject to unreasonable withholding.
Warranties and representations
What has actually been promised about performance, title and compliance, and what has been disclaimed in the paragraph after it.
Restrictive covenants
Non-competes, non-solicits and exclusivity. These get an enforceability check against the jurisdiction you selected, because whether they bind you is a question of local law before it is a question of drafting.
Force majeure and change
What excuses performance, who bears the cost of a suspension, and whether the other side can vary the deal unilaterally on notice.
The boilerplate that is not boilerplate
Entire agreement, notices, severability, amendment procedure. Read last, ignored most, and the reason a perfectly good side letter turns out to be worth nothing.
And the thirteenth thing: what is missing
Commercial contracts fail by omission far more often than by an obviously bad clause. A dedicated pass checks the agreement against the provisions a document of that type normally carries — termination rights, notice mechanics, liability caps, IP ownership, dispute resolution, force majeure — and grades each gap as a critical gap, a notable omission, or a nice to have. Absence is the hardest thing to notice when you are reading quickly, and it is the thing a model does not get tired of checking.
Every risky clause, with the worst case spelled out
Reds first, then ambers — because a review that opens with the payment terms has already wasted the only two minutes you were definitely going to spend on it. Each finding carries the clause reference, the worst case if it is enforced as written, and how often that actually happens.
Master Services Agreement — Review
Your role: ClientDelawareRisk Assessment
2 high-risk · 2 medium-risk · reds listed first
§ 11.2 — Indemnity
HighWorst case You indemnify the supplier without a cap, for any claim arising from your use of the service — including claims caused by their own defect. A single third-party action could exceed the total contract value many times over.
Likelihood Common in supplier-drafted SaaS terms
§ 12.1 — Limitation of liability
HighWorst case Their liability to you is capped at one month's fees while yours to them is uncapped. If the service fails and takes your data with it, your recovery is roughly one invoice.
Likelihood Common
§ 3.4 — Auto-renewal
MediumWorst case The term renews for a further twelve months unless you give ninety days' written notice. Miss the window by a day and you have bought another year at a price they may already have raised.
Likelihood Uncommon to be enforced strictly — but it happens
§ 8.3 — Unilateral amendment
MediumWorst case The supplier may vary the service description and the acceptable use policy on notice, with no corresponding right for you to exit. The thing you bought can change without your agreement.
Likelihood Common
The section structure is the real one. The agreement is invented for this illustration — no real contract, and no real authority, is quoted here.
Rated for your side
Fourteen party roles — client or provider, buyer or seller, tenant or landlord, employer or employee, borrower or lender, contractor or hiring party. Risk means risk to you, so the same clause scores differently depending on which chair you are in.
Likelihood, not just severity
A catastrophic term that is never enforced and a mildly annoying one that bites every quarter are different problems. Each risk gets an estimate of how commonly it actually materialises — and ties go to the higher rating.
Deadlines surfaced first
Response windows, option expiry dates and time-sensitive obligations are pulled out of the body of the contract and put at the top, where a date you are about to miss belongs.
It tells you where to spend your leverage
Knowing a clause is bad does not move a negotiation. What moves it is a specific alternative, sent back the same day, that the other side's lawyer can accept without escalating. Every red and amber finding comes back with that wording already drafted.
Suggested Revisions
Grouped by what your leverage is worth spending on
Must-have
— Walk away if refused- § 11.2 IndemnityNarrow it to third-party IP infringement claims, and make it mutual. An uncapped, all-causes indemnity against a supplier's own defect is not a term you can carry.
- § 12.1 Liability capSymmetrical cap at twelve months' fees, with the usual carve-outs for death, personal injury, fraud and breach of confidentiality.
Should-push
— Worth negotiating, expect pushback- § 3.4 Auto-renewalCut the notice period from ninety days to thirty, and require them to email a renewal reminder sixty days out.
- § 8.3 Unilateral amendmentAny material change to the service description triggers a thirty-day right to terminate without penalty.
Nice-to-have
— Ask, but do not die on this hill- § 5 Service levelsAdd a service credit schedule so an availability failure has a defined consequence rather than a conversation.
Illustrative wording. Read every rewrite the way you would read a junior’s first draft — against the commercial deal actually in front of you, before it goes out.
Specific, not advisory
The instruction is explicit: never say "consider negotiating better terms". Write the clause you would propose. A counterparty cannot respond to a sentiment, only to language.
Ask it what they will accept
The review is the start of the conversation. Ask what a supplier is likely to concede on a liability cap, or what a reasonable fallback looks like if they refuse — with the contract still in context.
Take it into your own redline
The drafted wording is text you paste into Word or your own template. There is no tracked-changes file coming out of this — see the limits below, because we would rather you knew now.
A clause is only aggressive somewhere in particular
Half the clauses people worry about are less binding than they look, and half the ones they wave through are enforceable exactly as written. Which is which is a question of governing law, not of drafting confidence.
- 61 jurisdictions: US federal, all 50 states and DC, plus the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, South Africa and the UAE — or a worldwide mode for a genuinely cross-border deal
- Terms that may be void or unenforceable under the law you selected are flagged as such, rather than described as merely one-sided
- Mandatory statutory protections that override the contract are called out — the ones no amount of drafting can sign away
- A governing law clause pointing somewhere other than home is raised in the overview, not buried in the boilerplate
- Where US law decides the question, it searches real case law and links what it read; where it cannot verify a source, it says so instead of inventing a citation
Five clause types it verifies without being asked
These are the provisions whose effect turns on local law more often than anything else in a commercial contract. When one appears, the review goes and checks it against the jurisdiction you chose rather than reciting a general rule.
- Non-compete and non-solicitation covenants
- Mandatory arbitration clauses
- Liquidated damages provisions
- Limitation of liability and indemnification caps
- Penalty clauses
The agreements it is actually asked to read
Naming the type is what lets the review compare your draft against what an agreement of that kind normally contains — and it is what makes the missing-provisions pass worth anything.
MSAs, SaaS and service terms
Master services agreements, software subscriptions, statements of work and terms of service. The liability-and-indemnity pairing, the auto-renewal, the unilateral amendment right and the data exit terms are where these live or die.
NDAs and confidentiality
The agreement people sign fastest and read least. Reviewed for whether it is genuinely mutual, how wide the definition runs, how long the obligation survives, and whether the compelled-disclosure carve-out is actually present.
Employment and contractor
Offer letters, employment agreements, consultancy and freelance contracts, separation agreements. Restrictive covenants get the enforceability check; IP assignment and worker-status language get read from whichever side you are on.
Leases and property
Commercial and residential leases, purchase agreements, assignments and licences. Repair obligations, break clauses, service charge provisions, rent review mechanics and personal guarantees — read for the tenant or for the landlord.
Also construction contracts and subcontracts, loan agreements, partnership and operating agreements, and IP assignments and licences. Upload it as PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or text up to 20MB — or as a photograph of a signed paper original, which is more often the real state of a contract than anyone admits. A deep reasoning toggle puts a stronger model on the long or deliberately difficult ones.
How to run an AI contract review
Four steps. The whole loop runs in minutes on an agreement that would otherwise take an afternoon and a second reading you were never going to do.
Upload the contract whole
The executed PDF, the Word draft they sent back, the photograph of the signed original. Do not extract the clauses you think matter — the missing-provisions pass needs the entire agreement, and so does the check on whether the boilerplate contradicts the commercial terms.
Name the contract type and your side of it
Client or provider, buyer or seller, tenant or landlord. This is the step people skip and the one that changes the output most: it is the difference between a neutral summary of an agreement and a review of your position in it.
Set the governing jurisdiction
Whether a non-compete binds, whether a liquidated damages clause is a penalty, whether a liability cap survives — all local questions. Choosing the jurisdiction is what turns generic caution into an answer about your contract.
Work the reds, then send the counter-language
Read the summary for the verdict and any deadline, then go straight down the high-risk findings. Take the must-have revisions into your redline, check each against the commercial deal, and send them the same day — speed is most of the advantage.
What this is not
Every vendor in this category has a feature matrix with ticks all the way down. Here is the honest version, so you can rule us out in two minutes rather than two weeks.
It is not a lawyer, and not advice
The verdict at the end is a recommendation to check, not an opinion to rely on. Where a term's effect depends on facts outside the document, the review says so rather than picking a side.
No contract repository or CLM
There is no executed-contract repository, no obligation or renewal tracking, no approval workflow, no e-signature and no portfolio analytics. It also does not learn your firm's playbook or fallback positions — there is no clause library you can train.
No tracked-changes output
The drafted wording is text you paste into your own redline. Nothing comes out as a marked-up DOCX, and there is no Word add-in.
One contract at a time, no version diff
No folder upload and no batch queue — forty supplier agreements means forty reviews. There is also no diff of round three against round four; you can upload both to a chat and ask what moved, but it is not a comparison feature.
Counterparty paper stays confidential
Uploads and their analysis are encrypted at rest, stay private to your account, and are never used to train models. That matters more here than almost anywhere else — the contract you are reviewing is usually somebody else’s confidential information, often under an NDA you have signed. The details are on our Trust Center.
Priced per month, not per seat
No seat minimum, no annual commitment, no procurement cycle. The $0 plan is real but covers legal Q&A and case law search rather than contract review — reviews start at ten a month on Starter, fifty on Pro, and unlimited on Business. Every paid plan opens with a free trial, so you can put a live agreement through before deciding.
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