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Contract Review
An agent that reviews incoming contracts against a playbook, flags deviations, and proposes redlines for a lawyer to approve.
29 HAL Score / 40 Governed
Workflow
- 1 Contract uploaded for first-pass review
- 2 Agent compares clauses against the playbook
- 3 Agent flags deviations and missing protections
- 4 Agent drafts proposed redlines with rationale
- 5 Lawyer reviews, edits, and accepts
Governance design
- ✓No authority to send or execute. Internal drafting only.
- ✓Playbook version recorded with each review.
- ✓Hard limit: never auto-accept counterparty terms.
- ✓Confidence shown per clause to guide human attention.
Escalation paths
- ↗Novel clause not in the playbook → supervising lawyer.
- ↗High-value or high-risk contract → mandatory full human review.
- ↗Indemnity or liability deviation → escalated regardless of confidence.
Ownership model
General Counsel, with the commercial team lead as deputy.
Lessons learned
- Per-clause confidence directed lawyers to where review added the most value.
- Pinning the playbook version to each review made later disputes easy to reconstruct.