Why small teams lose money on contracts
In a company of thirty people, contracts live in the owner's inbox, a shared drive and a few signed PDFs on someone's laptop. Nobody is negligent. There is simply no one whose job is to read the fine print or watch the calendar.
The costs show up as a software subscription that renewed for a year after the team stopped using it, a lease with a rent escalator nobody budgeted, or a customer contract with uncapped liability that was signed to close a deal quickly.
Set up in an afternoon
There is no sales call and no onboarding project. Create an account, upload PDFs or DOCX files, or bulk upload a folder on Team, and the analyzer builds a searchable repository with parties, contract type, term, renewal type, notice deadline, value and governing law extracted into fields.
The Starter plan covers one user, 100 pages of analysis per month and a searchable repository. That is enough for a founder or office manager to bring a whole filing cabinet under control.
Clauses small businesses should watch
Each flagged clause comes with the excerpt, a plain-English explanation and suggested replacement wording, so you know what to ask for when you reply to the other side.
- Auto-renewal with a long notice window, such as 90 days before term end
- Limitation of liability that is capped for the other party but not for you
- Indemnification that is one-sided or covers claims you cannot control
- Late fees and interest on invoices, and price increases without a ceiling
- Personal guarantees tucked into leases and supplier agreements
- Exclusivity and non-solicit terms that limit who you can hire or buy from
Alerts instead of memory
Email alerts arrive 90, 60, 30 and 7 days before the notice deadline. For a small business the notice date is the one that matters, because missing it usually means paying for another full term.
Grow into more users and playbooks
When a second person starts handling contracts, Team at 149 USD per month adds up to ten users with admin, editor and viewer roles, custom playbooks, redline export to DOCX, a weekly digest and an obligation calendar. Yearly billing takes 50 percent off every plan.
What it costs compared with the alternatives
Outside counsel can charge hundreds of dollars to review a single contract, which is why small businesses often skip review altogether. A monthly subscription that reads every contract, including the routine ones, changes that trade-off. Starter costs 24 USD per month on yearly billing, and you can cancel at the end of any billing period.
What to expect and what not to
The analyzer is not legal advice. It tells you what to look at and what to ask for. For a large lease or an unusual deal, show the analysis to your attorney and the review will be faster and cheaper.