Two kinds of contract compliance
The phrase covers two different jobs. Internal policy compliance asks whether a contract follows your rules: liability caps, data terms, payment limits and approved governing law. Performance compliance asks whether you are doing what the contract requires: delivering on time, giving notice, maintaining insurance and paying invoices.
ContractsAnalyzer supports both, from the document side.
Checking agreements against your playbook
A playbook states your preferred and fallback position on each clause. When an agreement is uploaded, the analyzer compares it clause by clause and rates the gaps from the chosen perspective. A governing law in a state you never accept, or an indemnity with no cap, is flagged with the excerpt and a suggested correction.
Standard, strict and light playbooks are included, and Team and Business plans let you write your own.
Extracting obligations
Obligations hide in ordinary paragraphs. A vendor must provide a security report each year. You must give 30 days notice of a change in ownership. A lease requires proof of insurance on renewal. The analyzer extracts these duties with their deadlines, and the obligation calendar on Team and Business plans lists them in date order.
Reminders that reach the right person
Email alerts arrive 90, 60, 30 and 7 days ahead of notice deadlines, and the weekly digest summarizes upcoming obligations. Roles let an admin assign who maintains the record while viewers, such as finance or operations leads, can see it without changing it.
- Notice and termination windows
- Renewal and price increase dates
- Reporting and delivery commitments
- Insurance and certificate renewals
Making exceptions visible
Real contracts rarely match policy exactly, and they should not have to. What matters is that every exception is seen and accepted by someone with the authority to accept it. The risk level on each clause, together with the summary card showing overall risk and the number of flagged clauses, makes that decision quick to record and easy to revisit at renewal.
Business adds an audit log, granular permissions, SAML single sign-on and data retention controls, which suit companies that must show who reviewed or changed a record.
An example from a vendor review
Your policy says vendors must carry data breach notification within 72 hours and liability must not be capped below twelve months of fees. A new vendor agreement says notice within 30 days and caps liability at three months. The analyzer flags both clauses, shows the excerpt, explains the gap and offers wording to restore your standard, so the exception is a conscious decision rather than a missed line.
What it does not certify
The analyzer does not decide whether a contract meets a law or regulation, and it is not legal advice. It shows what the documents say, where they differ from your standards, and what is due, which is the groundwork a compliance or legal reviewer needs.