How it works
What happens between paste and answer
How it works
Three steps, about forty seconds
Upload the contract
Paste the text or drop the PDF. A services agreement, a lease, an NDA, a software subscription, a statement of work. Ten pages or ninety. Nothing to configure and no template to pick, because Clause works out what it is reading.
Text-based PDFs up to 10 MB. If a file is scanned images rather than text, Clause says so instead of guessing.
Clause reads every line
Every clause is read in the context of the whole agreement, because a termination clause means something different next to a two year auto-renewal. Each one is compared against what is standard for that kind of deal, and each quote is checked back against your own text before you see it.
A quote the model produced that does not appear in your document is thrown away rather than shown. A highlight on the wrong sentence is worse than no highlight.
Get flags and redlines
The risky clauses come back ranked, each with what it says, why it costs you, how it compares to normal, and the exact language to ask for. Copy the redline into your reply and send it. That is the whole job.
Most customers send the suggested wording straight back to the other side. The rest take it to a lawyer, who now has a thirty minute meeting instead of a three hour one.
In detail
The five stages
Written out because the trustworthy part of this product is not the model call. It is what happens either side of it.
- 01Extraction
Getting the words out
A pasted contract is already text. A PDF is not: it is a set of drawing instructions that usually contain text and sometimes contain only pictures of text. Clause pulls the text out server side, normalises the spacing, and if what comes back is empty it tells you the file is scanned rather than reviewing an empty string and producing a confident answer about nothing.
- 02Reading
One pass, whole document
The whole agreement goes to the model in one go where it fits, because a clause read on its own loses the thing that makes it dangerous. An agreement longer than one pass is split on paragraph boundaries, never mid-clause, and the parts are merged against the whole document afterwards so offsets still line up.
- 03Verification
Every quote checked against your text
The model returns a quote for each clause it flags. Before you see it, that quote is located in your own document, first exactly, then insensitive to whitespace and curly quotes, then by the longest run that does appear. A quote that cannot be found is thrown away and the review says how many were dropped. A highlight on the wrong sentence is worse than no highlight.
- 04Ranking
Most expensive first
Flags are sorted by risk and then by where they sit in the document, so the list reads like a priority queue rather than a table of contents. A clean agreement comes back with few flags and an overall read of standard, because rating everything high would make the rating useless.
- 05Drafting
The ask, not the argument
The redline is written to be pasted into a reply. It opens with the ask in one sentence, then the replacement wording. It is pitched at what a small business can realistically get, because asking a vendor for uncapped liability wastes the one round of negotiation you have.
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