Review contracts faster, on your own terms.

This workspace is a contract review desk for Northwind's legal team. A contract comes in; the Contract Reviewer checks it clause by clause against the Negotiation playbook, redlines it in the wording from the Clause library, scores the risk, and asks you to approve the positions. Nothing goes back to the other side before you do.

The playbook, clauses and contracts here are samples written for a fictional company. They are not legal advice: have your own counsel adapt them before you rely on them.

What is here

•Risk review: the finished page. It reads Issue list and Contract register live and shows the contested clauses as a redline, the risk score before and after our changes, the issues by severity, the contract's register card, and a clause-by-clause heatmap across every live negotiation. Pick a contract at the top.

•Contract register: one row per contract, with stage, value, legal owner, renewal date, risk score and residual risk. Open it in Kanban to see contracts by stage.

•Issue list: one row per contested clause: the issue, its severity, the clause and section, the change we propose, our position against the playbook, the other side's position and the negotiation round. Open it in Kanban to see issues by status.

•Contracts: the contracts themselves. Sample MSA — Northwind × Lumen is a finished round-3 redline; Kestrel Logistics MSA (received) is waiting for its first review; Negotiation log — Lumen MSA records each round with Lumen.

•Playbook: the Negotiation playbook (preferred, fallback and walk-away positions for nine clauses, with the severity and scoring rules), the Clause library (the approved wording for each position), the Approval authority matrix (who approves what, and who signs) and the Review memo template.

Who does what

•Contract Reviewer reviews a contract against the playbook, writes the redline and the review memo, adds the issues to Issue list and scores the contract. Then it asks you to approve the risk positions with one approval card and waits. It never sends anything to the other side.

•Negotiation Coordinator records each round: what the other side accepted, countered or ignored, in Issue list and in the contract's negotiation log. Switch on its schedule and once a week it lists the contracts whose renewal date is close.

•Clause Librarian keeps the Clause library worded exactly as the playbook decides, adds wording the reviewer was missing, and reports which fallbacks other parties actually accept.

How redlines are written

In the contracts and in Issue list's Proposed change column, ~~struck text~~ is deleted and bold text is inserted. A quoted comment under each changed clause gives the reason. Risk review draws the same marks as a redline.

How the risk score works

Every issue scores points by severity (Critical 10, High 5, Medium 3, Low 1), and every position by how far we gave way (Preferred 0, Fallback 1: 3, Fallback 2: 6, Walk-away 10). Risk score is where the contract stands now; residual risk is where it would land if the other side accepted our redline. The playbook has the full rule.