Clause-by-clause review against your playbook
The Contract Agent reviews any agreement clause by clause — NDAs, MSAs and SaaS terms, DPAs, IP clauses — driven by your firm's own playbooks. It scores risk, detects deviation from your standard positions, and produces surgical redlines with a confidence level on every clause.
The same standard on contract 1 and contract 50.
A partner's playbook says cap liability at 2x contract value, but an associate reviewing forty vendor agreements misses the one where it's uncapped. Generic AI flags 'unusual clauses' without knowing your thresholds, your tolerances, or your negotiating priorities.
What goes wrong
- A missed risk clause in a high-volume review creates uninsured liability
- Generic AI flags are noise — they don't know your playbook
- Review quality drifts across people and across the working week
From your question to a governed answer
Not a black box. Every step is visible, checkable, and governed. Here's exactly what happens when you use the Contract Agent.
Upload the contract and pick the playbook
One contract or a batch, matched to the right playbook — NDA, commercial supply, SaaS, DPA, or any you've configured.
Pre-run guardrails clear the work
The Conflict Check and PII Redaction run before review begins, so a conflict is caught and personal data is redacted from the inputs.
The agent maps the document
It reads the clause structure, identifies the clause types, and maps the parties and defined terms before looking at substance.
Each clause is checked against your playbook
Every clause is compared to your rules and sorted into acceptable, negotiate, escalate, or reject, with each finding naming the rule it came from.
Obligations and references are extracted and checked
Key dates, notice requirements, and renewal terms are pulled into a table; the Legal Citation Verifier checks any statutory references against legislation.gov.uk.
You get a structured report
Organised by severity, each finding showing the clause text, the playbook rule, the deviation, a recommended redline, and a confidence level.
Every output governed by:
Input
Verify
Comply
Prove
Governed
Everything the Contract Agent can do
Every capability runs on our own legal database and through the same governance — checked, compliant, and logged.
- Clause-by-clause review with risk scored against the thresholds your firm sets
- Deviation detection against your real playbook, not a generic template
- Surgical redlines, clause by clause, ready for negotiation
- Obligations, deadlines, and notice requirements pulled out, each tied to the responsible party
- Specialist coverage for NDAs, MSAs/SaaS, DPAs, and IP clauses
- A structured report with a confidence level on every finding
Who the Contract Agent is for
- Corporate and commercial teams handling high-volume review
- In-house teams managing vendor and procurement contracts
- M&A teams in diligence who need speed without losing accuracy
Governance guarantee
Every review carries an audit trail: what was flagged, which playbook rule applied, and the confidence on each finding. The Legal Citation Verifier checks any statutory or regulatory reference in the contract, giving clear evidence for PI insurers and any regulatory review.
In practice
Real scenarios, real outcomes
How different roles in your firm would use the Contract Agent — with specific scenarios and governed outcomes.
Scenario
Reviewing 30 supplier agreements for a client's procurement overhaul. Each one needs checking against the client's updated standard terms and the firm's commercial contract playbook.
Governed outcome
The batch is reviewed in hours, not weeks. Every deviation documented with the playbook rule. The partner reviews 12 critical findings, not 30 full contracts.
Scenario
Annual review of the company's vendor contracts — spotting expiring terms, auto-renewals approaching their trigger date, and liability provisions that don't meet the new risk policy.
Governed outcome
An obligation extract across the whole portfolio with deadline alerts. 8 contracts flagged for renegotiation before they auto-renew. A full audit trail for the board risk committee.
Scenario
The target has 200 material contracts in the data room. The team needs the key terms, the change-of-control provisions, and the contracts that may not survive the deal.
Governed outcome
A structured due diligence report in days. Change-of-control provisions found across all 200 contracts. Every finding traceable to the source clause and page.
What makes this different
Built for legal work, not relabelled for it
Your playbook, not a generic checklist
Reviews against your real negotiating positions and thresholds, with different playbooks per contract type and client.
A confidence level on every finding
Clear deviations action fast; borderline language gets flagged for a human.
Surgical redlines, not margin comments
A structured report plus clause-level redlines ready for negotiation.
The same standard across a whole batch
Contract 1 and contract 50 held to the same bar, with no Friday-afternoon drift.
Built on our own legal database
The Contract Agent checks every output against BAILII, legislation.gov.uk, EUR-Lex, and our own legal database — a curated, constantly updated source we built in-house for faster checking. It's our own work, and it lets us cross-reference across jurisdictions in ways the public sources can't on their own.
Built-in governance
How Verify, Comply, Prove works for the Contract Agent
Every agent on LegalAI Space runs through the same three steps. Here's exactly what that means for contract agent outputs.
Legal references in the contract are checked
Contracts cite legislation, regulations, and standard forms. The Legal Citation Verifier confirms those references are current and correctly cited.
- Statutory references checked on legislation.gov.uk for amendment, repeal, or replacement
- Regulatory references checked against the current version of the rules
- Standard forms checked against the published versions
- Cross-references and defined terms checked for internal consistency
The review checked against your standards
The Regulatory Compliance Check confirms the review meets your firm's quality bar. Not just that each clause was looked at, but that the review as a whole is thorough.
- All clause types in the playbook reviewed — nothing skipped
- Material risk findings flagged above the firm's defined threshold
- Regulatory requirements for the contract type checked (e.g. consumer rights, UK GDPR for DPAs)
- Client-specific standing instructions applied to the review
A per-clause trail back to your playbook
Every finding traces to the playbook rule that triggered it. Each clause shows which rules applied, the outcome, and the confidence level.
- Per-clause log: which rules applied, pass or fail, deviation detail
- Confidence scores showing where a human review is most needed
- Playbook version tracked — which version was applied
- Reviewer actions logged: accepted, overridden, or escalated
Further Reading
Further reading for the Contract Agent
Guides on the work the Contract Agent does — and the governance behind it.
Try the Contract Agent on a real matter
Get early access and run the Contract Agent on your firm's work — or book a pilot call to scope what you need.
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LegalAI Space is a technology platform. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. AI agents assist with legal work but do not replace qualified legal counsel or professional judgement.
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Agent capabilities described on this page represent planned or in-development functionality. Final capabilities may vary.
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References to regulatory frameworks (SRA Standards and Regulations, EU AI Act) are for informational purposes. Compliance checking is automated and rule-based — it does not constitute a legal opinion.