Commercial and contracts teams
Every agreement, read against your playbook, with the clause quoted back.
The Contract Agent reviews the agreement clause by clause, marks the deviations by severity, proposes the fallback wording, and hands you a Word file to sign.
| Document | Governing law | Term | Return of information |
|---|---|---|---|
| NDA: Counterparty A | Verified "This Agreement is governed by English law." | Verified | Needs a check |
| NDA: Counterparty B | Verified | Verified | Needs a check |
| NDA: Counterparty C | Verified | Verified | Needs a check |
A review grid marking each clause against the firm's position, with the wording quoted, never paraphrased.
The day this changes
Before
Commercial work is volume work: the same twelve clauses, argued the same eight ways, across forty agreements a month.
The firm has a playbook. It lives in a Word document from 2021 that three of the six associates have read, so positions drift.
A junior copies the last deal rather than the standard, and nobody notices until a client asks why their liability cap is different.
After
The Contract Agent reviews the agreement against your positions, marks each deviation by severity, and proposes fallback wording with the clause text quoted rather than described.
The review comes back as a Word file with the redline reasoning, so the fee-earner spends time on the one deviation that matters on this deal.
The house position lives inside the agent, so the fortieth review reads the same as the first.
Grounded on the matter
Open the matter, add the agreement, and the Contract Agent reviews the document that is actually in front of you rather than a generic template. It quotes the clause it is marking, so every deviation points back to the words on the page. Because the work sits inside the matter, the review and the chat about it attach to the right client from the first message.
See how matters workClient
Calder & Finch LLP
Reference
CF-2026-0184
Practice area
Employment
Jurisdiction
England and Wales
Responsible partner
R. Okafor
Status
Open
Conflict check on open: clear across 214 matters searched.
Clear- Matter opened: conflict check run automatically.
- Documents added: employment contract, board minutes.
- Contract Agent run completed: 6 action items, 14 authorities.
The matter the review runs inside, with the conflict check on open.
A deliverable, not a chat
The review is a Word file: each clause marked against the firm's position, deviations ranked by severity, fallback wording proposed, and the source clause quoted in full. Choose who it is for and the same run shapes into a Client Update in plain English or a Work-Stream Memo for the team. You get an editable document to sign off, not a reply to copy and paste.
See the review gridContract Agent Completed
Senior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Calder & Finch LLP · Employment · CF-2026-0184
Summary
Overall risk is HIGH. The UK/Ireland/EU non-compete is likely unenforceable, while the holiday carry-over cap and blanket data/monitoring consent require replacement; the remaining covenants, working-time opt-out and bonus clause should be narrowed and clarified.
- 1. Clause 9(c), non-compete: High: the 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU is wider than reasonably necessary.§ Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32
- 2. Clause 11, data and monitoring: High: blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing or unrestricted monitoring.§ UK GDPR
A signed-off review memo with a summary, action items and a Word download.
Verified, then shareable
Where a review turns on a point of law, the authority is fetched from the approved primary-law sources and marked with a verdict before you read it. Accept the redlines you agree with, download the Word file, or send a passcode link to the client with each view logged. Nothing leaves the matter without a record of who opened it and when.
See client sharingShare link
Expires
7 days
Views logged
3
- client@calderfinch.exampleOpened, 09:14
- client@calderfinch.exampleOpened, 14:02
A passcode share link with an expiry and every view logged on the matter.
A Contract Agent run over one commercial agreement costs about 118 credits, about £1.18. The figure is observed, not a per-matter saving.
See pricingObjections
We already have Copilot.
A general assistant answers from the open web and will cite a case that does not exist. This works from a closed list of primary law and marks each authority verified, needs a check, or not found.
See how verification worksOur documents are confidential.
Files sit in Microsoft Azure UK, encrypted in transit and at rest, scoped to the matter, and never used to train a model. The security statement sets out the detail.
Read the security statementOur COLP will not sign this off.
Sources are a closed list, every citation carries a verdict, and every run, share and check sits on a register you can export or print as an inspection bundle.
See the audit registerRun the Contract Agent on one of your own agreements.
Free plan, two seats, 500 welcome credits, no card.