Every contract read against the playbook, every deviation explained
A working prototype of contract review for a corporate practice. Incoming agreements are compared clause by clause with the firm's positions and fallbacks. What reaches the lawyer is a list of deviations with reasons, a redline already drafted, and a cover note to edit. Nothing here is legal advice; the system prepares work for a lawyer to review.
Runs in your browser on sample data. Nothing you do in it is stored. Built for corporate practices and in-house legal teams.
Ashford Legal, October 6, 2026: six contracts in the queue, read on arrival. The NDA from Corvex has one critical deviation, two material, one minor, and one clause the playbook has never seen.
Six things the demo does end to end
A queue that already knows what is wrong
Six contracts from six counterparties: an NDA, an MSA, a DPA, a SaaS subscription, a consulting agreement and a sponsorship. Each row shows the deviation count by severity, the status and who has it, before anyone opens the file.
The analysis, clause by clause
Open a new contract and watch it read against the playbook. Each deviating clause lands with the playbook position, what the contract says instead, the severity and a one-sentence reason, and every sentence carries a chip that opens its source.
Redlines inside the document
Accept a redline and the document changes in place, with the old wording struck and the new wording inserted. A toggle shows the clean text or the marked-up version. Keep as is and Escalate to partner are the other two ways out.
The clause nobody has a position on
A residuals clause in the NDA and an exclusivity clause in the sponsorship agreement match nothing in the playbook. Neither gets a redline. Each goes to a partner with a note that says what the clause does and what the client is exposed to.
A cover note built from the decisions
One numbered point per accepted redline, a holding line for anything escalated, and the rest acceptable as drafted. The associate edits it and sends it to a partner for approval; the system never sends it to the counterparty.
The playbook, editable in place
Ten clause types, each with the preferred position, the acceptable fallbacks and the hard line that makes a deviation critical. Change a position and the next contract is read against the new text. Reports show turnaround by contract type, the most common deviations, and the share of clauses accepted against negotiated.
Three steps, five minutes
Take the tour
Fifteen stops. It opens the NDA, runs the analysis, accepts a redline, escalates the residuals clause, drafts the cover note, then visits the playbook and the reports.
Open the consulting agreement
It has not been read yet. Watch the analysis run, then decide the three deviations and draft the note yourself.
Edit a playbook position
Change the governing law position, then open the Lattice Cloud agreement and read the deviation against the new text.
We build it custom for your practice
The demo runs on sample data. A real build connects to your own tools and is fitted to how you already work.
Your playbook, as it is written
Positions, fallbacks and hard lines taken from the firm's existing precedents and checklists, per practice area, in the firm's own words.
Your document management and your email
Contracts picked up from iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint or a mailbox, and the redline returned as a Word document with tracked changes the counterparty can open.
Tested on contracts the firm already reviewed
Run on a sample of closed matters and compared with what the lawyers actually marked up, then tuned until the deviations and the severities match before it touches live work.
A lawyer owns every redline
The system reads, flags and drafts. A lawyer decides, edits and sends. Nothing goes to a counterparty without a person's approval, and every sentence keeps the playbook position and the clause it came from.
Want this built for your practice?
Thirty minutes with Ishaan: what it would connect to, what it needs from your side, and whether it makes sense to build it together.
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