Contract Risk Detection
Spot sensitive clauses, inconsistencies, and compliance issues in contracts and regulatory documents automatically.
A contract running to dozens of pages often contains clauses that depart from the usual standard in ways a quick read won’t catch.
We build systems that compare each clause against an internal library and rank the deviations found, so legal review can focus on what actually matters.
The penalty clause on page forty
A forty-page framework agreement arrives for sign-off, with a late-delivery penalty clause that differs from the usual standard, buried between two administrative paragraphs on billing terms. Whoever reviews it, legal, or the account manager, rarely has time to check every clause, one by one, against what the company normally accepts, especially when the document follows the client’s own template rather than the company’s.
Too many flags and the tool stops getting used
A system trained on generic contracts flags dozens of points per document, most of which carry no real consequence for the business. After a few weeks the legal team closes the tool and goes back to reading contracts the old way, unable to rank what actually matters.
An internally agreed clause library is the starting point
This only works if a library of acceptable clauses and risk thresholds has already been discussed and agreed internally, with someone named to arbitrate edge cases, a penalty cap, an extended warranty, an early-termination clause. Without that library, the system falls back on generic standards that poorly reflect the company’s practices and its real appetite for risk, and the project stays premature until that arbitration work has happened.
Where the automated sorting stops
We build a system that spots clauses departing from the library, ranks them by criticality, and links each one to the exact passage in the document. The automated part stops there: accepting, negotiating, or rejecting a clause stays with the lawyer, who now works from a short list to guide the reading, rather than a forty-page document read cover to cover. Which clause gets escalated, and to whom, is a rule the legal team sets in the library, ahead of any document arriving.