Risk lives in a few clauses
Most of a contract is boilerplate. The financial and operational exposure sits in a short list of clauses. Uncapped indemnification, a liability cap far below the contract value, an automatic renewal with a ninety day notice window, a unilateral price increase, broad IP assignment. Risk management is mostly about seeing those clauses fast and consistently.
How scoring works
The analyzer detects the clause, compares its wording with the position in your playbook, and assigns a risk level. The result shows the excerpt, the level, why it matters for your side, and a suggested redline with fallback language.
Choose the standard commercial playbook, a strict one for enterprise buyers, or a light one for low-value deals. On Team and Business you can write custom playbooks with preferred and fallback positions per clause.
A portfolio view, not just a single review
Every analyzed contract carries an overall risk level and a count of flagged clauses. In the repository you can filter by risk level, counterparty, type and renewal month. A common first query is every high-risk agreement renewing in the next two quarters, which tells you where to spend negotiation time.
Clauses that drive the score
- Limitation of liability and indemnification
- Auto-renewal, termination and notice
- Payment terms, late fees and price increases
- Data protection and confidentiality
- IP ownership and assignment
- Governing law, venue, exclusivity and non-solicit
From finding to fix
A flag is only useful if it leads somewhere. Each one comes with suggested replacement language, and Team and Business plans export redlines to DOCX with tracked-change style markup. Renewal and deadline alerts by email make sure a risk tied to a date is handled before the date.
Controls for larger teams
Business adds SAML SSO, granular roles and permissions, an audit log, data retention controls and deletion on demand. ContractsAnalyzer flags what to check and is not legal advice. Treat a low score as a prompt to move quickly, not a guarantee.
A worked example
A growth stage company signs a data processing addendum as part of a larger services agreement. The addendum caps the vendor's liability at fees paid in the prior month and excludes data breach from the indemnity. On its own the clause looks standard. Scored against a strict playbook it is flagged high, with the explanation that a breach could cost far more than one month of fees. The suggested fallback raises the cap to a multiple of annual fees for data incidents. The team sends the redline before signature, instead of discovering the gap during an incident. The same review across fifty existing contracts shows which others carry the same pattern.