Contract Agent
Review and triage any agreement against your firm playbook
Employment · Commercial Contracts · Corporate/M&A
Reviews a contract clause by clause and returns a memo with proposed redlines.
No credit card required
Senior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Summary
- 1.
Clause 9(c), non-competeHigh
The 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU, in any capacity, is almost certainly wider than reasonably necessary and therefore unlikely to be enforceable.
Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 - 2.
Clause 11, data and monitoringHigh
Blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing, special-category data or unrestricted monitoring.
UK GDPR, Arts 6 and 9 - 3.
Clause 4, holiday carry-overHigh
The unconditional five-day cap conflicts with mandatory carry-over rights where sickness, statutory leave or employer failure prevents leave being taken.
Working Time Regulations 1998, regs 13 to 13A
You hand it
- Review an employment contract for compliance with current law
- Redline an NDA against the firm's house position
- Flag a jurisdiction or governing-law mismatch between a contract and the surrounding correspondence
You get back
A memo with a summary, files read, action items to confirm, authorities with verdicts, open questions, and a Word download.
- Summary
- Files
- Action items
- Authorities
- Open questions
- How this was made
You can rely on it because
It runs inside the matter, reads only what is on the file, and records every step under How this was made.
From the task to the memo.
The Contract Agent reads a contract against the matter's own facts, for example board minutes or a term sheet, and returns a clause-by-clause review: overall risk, which clauses need work, and proposed redlines. It states plainly what it was not given, so a gap in the file does not get papered over as an assumption.
- 1
Plan and screen the task
Planning Protocol maps the review, Jurisdiction Gatekeeper confirms it sits within enabled law, and PII Redaction screens the attached documents before dispatch.
- 2
Pick the review type
Provide the agreement and pick the review type: NDA triage, commercial, DPA or IP clauses.
- 3
Classify against the playbook
The agent classifies clauses, checks them against the firm's playbook, and flags deviations by severity.
- 4
Verify and gate
Legal Citation Verifier and Privilege Review run before the memo is returned.
- 5
Receive the memo
Receive an executive summary, a clause-by-clause table and a redline list, with a Word download.
A document with its working attached.
Senior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Summary
- 1.
Clause 9(c), non-competeHigh
The 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU, in any capacity, is almost certainly wider than reasonably necessary and therefore unlikely to be enforceable.
Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 - 2.
Clause 11, data and monitoringHigh
Blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing, special-category data or unrestricted monitoring.
UK GDPR, Arts 6 and 9 - 3.
Clause 4, holiday carry-overHigh
The unconditional five-day cap conflicts with mandatory carry-over rights where sickness, statutory leave or employer failure prevents leave being taken.
Working Time Regulations 1998, regs 13 to 13A
Three tasks to start with.
The prompts the agent suggests inside the workspace. Paste your own document under any of them.
Review this agreement against our playbook
Review the attached agreement clause by clause against our firm playbook. Flag every deviation, score the risk, and propose surgical redlines with the reasoning for each:
Find the liability and indemnity position
Extract the liability cap, carve-outs, indemnities and insurance obligations from the attached agreement. Tell me plainly what our exposure is and where it is uncapped.
Diff two versions of a contract
Compare these two versions of the agreement. List every substantive change (ignore formatting), say which side each change favours, and flag the three that matter most:
Who it is for, and what it will not do yet.
Best for
- Employment, commercial and NDA teams needing a clause-by-clause read against the firm's own playbook.
- Fee earners who need surgical redlines with the risk reasoning attached.
- Practice heads standardising review across NDA, commercial, DPA and IP-clause work.
Not yet
- Contract negotiation is not yet automated end-to-end: every redline is a draft for a qualified lawyer to review and send.
Under the hoodProtocols, gates, skills and sources, for the reader who wants them.
Protocols
- 01Planning ProtocolMaps out the plan before any work starts: which sources answer which part of the task, in what order.
- 02Jurisdiction GatekeeperConfirms the task sits inside a jurisdiction the firm has enabled, and flags anything that strays outside it.
- 03PII RedactionScreens the task for personal and client data and redacts it before dispatch, with an allow-list so the firm's own name is not stripped from its own memo.
- 04Legal Citation VerifierIndependently re-fetches every cited authority and confirms it exists and reads as quoted before the memo reaches you.
- 05Privilege ReviewAssesses the output for privileged or confidential material and flags disclosure risk before it is circulated.
Skills
- UK Legal Citation Format
- Contract Clause Library
- Corporate & M&A Playbook
- Commercial Contracts Playbook
- IP & Technology
- Data Protection (UK GDPR & Privacy)
- Redline & Track Changes Conventions
- NDA Triage Positions (UK)
- Contract Amendment History Method
Connectors in the catalogue
Catalogue tiles, not live integrations today. Documents are uploaded to the matter.
- Notion
- Microsoft 365
- DocuSign
- OpenLaw
Sources it may cite
See it do real work.
- 01Review an NDA against the board minutesA mutual NDA and the board minutes that discussed it go into one matter. The question is not whether the NDA is standard, it is whether it matches what the board decided, and that means reading both documents together.
- 02Compliance review of an employment contractA short-form contract that has sat in the precedent folder is checked clause by clause against English employment law before a senior hire is countersigned.
- 03Customer-side redline of a supplier MSAA supplier sends its own paper and asks for signature by Friday. Reviewed from the customer side, the memo names three walk-away clauses and ranks the rest for negotiation.
- 04Abstract a lease portfolio into one gridA fifty-eight-lease portfolio is abstracted into a single grid ahead of a refinancing, answering where the break dates fall, which leases have upward-only rent review, and which restrict assignment.
- 05Onboarding a new firm in thirty minutesA managing partner signs up, sets the firm's practice profile, prints the confidentiality and data statement the COLP will ask for, opens a matter with a conflict check, and runs a Contract Agent memo, all in one sitting without a card or a call.
- 06A paralegal's first weekA paralegal joins the corporate team on Monday and by Friday has run a research question, filled a 378-cell due diligence grid, hit the limit of what a paralegal seat can do, and produced a memo the partner signs off.
- 07Review the warranties and limitations in a share purchase agreementA seller's draft share purchase agreement for Halcyon Bidco is read as two documents that have to agree with each other: the warranty schedule and the limitations clause. The memo pairs each warranty with the cap, basket and time limit that actually applies to it.
- 08Review a shareholders agreement under Irish company lawA minority investor is taking twenty-two per cent of an Irish private company and wants to know what the shareholders agreement actually gives them. The review reads the agreement and the constitution together, because a reserved matter that the constitution contradicts is worth very little.
- 09Read a SaaS order form against its master termsQuillon Software has sent a one-page order form that incorporates forty pages of master terms by reference. The review reads both and reports where the order form promises something the master terms take away.
- 10Review a supply agreement for quality and liability termsUlverston Foods is buying an ingredient under a three-year supply agreement and the recall risk sits entirely on the buyer. The review reads specification, rejection, recall and liability as one chain and shows where it breaks.
- 11Review a franchise agreement from the franchisee sideA client is investing their redundancy payment in a coffee franchise and has been given the franchisor's standard agreement with no negotiation offered. The review tells them what they are buying, what they are giving up and what they will own at the end.
- 12Review a reseller agreement governed by Singapore lawA London software business is appointing a reseller in Singapore and the reseller has proposed its own local paper. The review covers appointment scope, customer data handling and termination, and states plainly how the research was sourced.