Contract Review and Redline
Clause-by-clause reading against your standard position, a plain-English summary, risk flagged by severity, and a marked-up version ready to send back.
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Review Contracts, Draft Documents, and Never Miss a Renewal Date
Overview
Legal work at a small business splits cleanly in two, and almost nobody separates them. There is judgement, whether a term is enforceable, what your real exposure is, whether to accept a risk. That needs a qualified lawyer and always will. Then there is handling: reading the document, comparing it to what you normally accept, restating it in plain words, drafting the response, tracking what was agreed, chasing the signature. That is the overwhelming majority of the hours, and it is paralegal work.
Most founders do neither. The lawyer is too expensive to use for handling, so contracts go unread and dates go untracked, and the lawyer only appears once something has already gone wrong. The paperwork does not stop arriving, it just stops being looked at.
Marco takes the handling. Contracts get read the day they arrive, your own templates get built so you negotiate from your paper rather than theirs, renewal dates get tracked so nothing auto-renews by accident, and signatures get chased so deals stop stalling at 95 percent. When something genuinely needs a lawyer, it reaches them scoped and prepared, which is the cheapest way to buy legal advice.
At a Glance
- Clause
- Level every contract is read at
- 24/7
- A contract at 11pm is read at 11pm
- Tracked
- Every renewal and notice date
- 99/mo
- Starting price
Before / After
- Before: Contracts signed without being properly read
After: Every document read clause by clause against your standard terms - Before: Working from the other side paper every time
After: Your own template library, so negotiation starts from your position - Before: Auto-renewing into a tool you stopped using last year
After: Renewal dates tracked, with warnings while you can still act - Before: A privacy policy copied from a competitor website
After: Policies drafted from how your business actually handles data - Before: Agreed deals sitting unsigned for weeks
After: Signatures tracked and chased until the file is executed and filed - Before: Small legal questions never asked because the invoice is not worth it
After: Plain-language answers with sources, and a scoped question when a lawyer is needed
Benefits
Drafted Documents and Templates
A reusable library of the agreements you sign repeatedly, written from your terms, with specific contracts produced from a plain-language brief.
Policies, Terms, and Privacy Pages
Terms of service, privacy policy, cookie notice, acceptable use, and refund policy drafted from your real data flows, with plain-language summaries.
Contract Register
Every agreement, value, renewal date, and notice window in one place, extracted from the documents, with warnings timed to leave room to decide.
Compliance Gap Map
What applies to your markets and data, checked against what you already have, with gaps ranked by exposure and the artifact each one needs.
Research Memos
Plain-language answers to orientation questions with cited sources, uncertainty marked honestly, and a scoped question prepared for your lawyer.
Benefits
Your Standard Position, Learned Once
Payment terms, liability cap, notice period, IP stance, and governing law. Set once and every future document is measured against it instead of read cold.
Plain-Language Explainers
Every flagged clause restated in ordinary words: what it obliges, what happens on failure, and what the other side gains from the wording as written.
Date Tracking That Warns Early
Warnings calculated backwards from each notice period rather than a fixed reminder, so there is room to check, price alternatives, and decide.
An Honest Boundary
Where a question needs a qualified lawyer, the output says so and hands you a scoped question with the analysis attached, rather than guessing confidently.
How It Works
- Hire Marco: He arrives with contract review, drafting, compliance, and document tracking already in place. Connect the email and Drive where your agreements actually live.
- Set Your Standard Position: Tell him the terms you accept, or hand him a contract you were happy with. That becomes the yardstick for every document he reads afterwards, and the basis for your templates.
- Send Him the Paperwork: Forward contracts as they arrive. He reads, flags, drafts, files, and tracks the dates. Anything that genuinely needs a lawyer reaches you scoped and prepared.
Comparison
| Dimension | Traditional | With Sista |
|---|---|---|
| Contracts actually read | Skimmed for price and term, the rest accepted on trust | Read clause by clause against your standard position |
| Turnaround on a routine NDA | Sits in the inbox until someone finds an afternoon | Cleared or flagged the day it arrives |
| Whose paper you negotiate on | Theirs, because you never had your own | Yours, from a template library built once |
| Renewal dates | Known at signing, forgotten immediately after | Tracked, with warnings timed to leave room to act |
| Small legal questions | Never asked, because an invoice is not worth it | Answered in plain language with cited sources |
| What your lawyer receives | An unread contract and a vague worry | A scoped question with the analysis already attached |
This Does Not Replace Your Lawyer, It Aims Their Bill
We are going to be direct about the boundary, because a legal page that blurs it is doing the reader harm. Marco does not give legal advice. He does not assess enforceability in your jurisdiction, he does not tell you your exposure is acceptable, and he does not carry professional liability for an opinion. Those things require a qualified lawyer, and if anyone sells you software that claims otherwise, that is the moment to stop reading.
What he does is everything around that judgement. Reading the document in full. Comparing it to what you normally accept. Restating dense clauses in ordinary words. Drafting the response and the alternative wording. Tracking what was agreed and when it renews. Chasing the signature. Filing the executed copy. None of that is advice, all of it is work, and it is the large majority of the hours a legal matter consumes.
The result is not a smaller legal budget so much as a better-aimed one. When a lawyer receives a scoped question with the analysis already done, the conversation is short and the invoice reflects judgement rather than reading. Most small businesses are currently paying for neither, because the paperwork simply goes unexamined until something breaks.
The Documents Nobody Owns
Every growing business accumulates a category of work that belongs to nobody. The vendor NDA that arrived on Friday. The contract register that exists in one person memory. The privacy policy copied from a competitor in year one and never revisited. The renewal date somebody noted in a calendar that no longer syncs. The agreement that was verbally agreed a month ago and still is not signed.
None of it is hard, and that is exactly why it does not get done. Hard problems get owners and attention. This work is easy, unrewarding, and always less urgent than whatever is on fire, so it loses every single time it competes for a founder afternoon. It accumulates silently until an auto-renewal lands, a customer asks a question the policy cannot answer, or a diligence process asks for every material agreement at once.
Handing that whole category to someone whose job it is means it stops competing. The NDA gets read on Friday. The register stays current. The policy is revisited when the product changes rather than when a regulator asks. None of those are impressive individually, and collectively they are the difference between paperwork that is under control and paperwork that is a growing liability nobody is looking at.
Consistency Is What Actually Changes
The strongest argument for handling paperwork this way is not speed and it is not cost. It is that the tenth document gets the same attention as the first. A human reviewer at 5pm on a Friday, on the fourth NDA of the day, is not the reviewer they were on Tuesday morning, and no amount of professionalism fully fixes that. Attention is finite and routine documents are where it runs out first.
For the high-volume, low-variance paperwork that fills a small business week, vendor NDAs, supplier terms, standard client agreements, that consistency is worth more than brilliance. Nine of those documents genuinely are routine. The value is entirely in reading the tenth as carefully as the first, and that is a discipline problem rather than an expertise problem.
Where genuine expertise is required, the unusual clause, the significant deal, the question with real money behind it, the honest answer is still a lawyer, and Marco says so. Knowing reliably which documents are which is most of what a founder actually needs, and it is the thing a scattered, unread pile can never tell you.
FAQ
Is Marco a lawyer, and is this legal advice?
No to both, and we are deliberate about it. Marco does paralegal work: reading, comparing, drafting, tracking, and chasing. Legal advice on your specific situation comes from a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction who carries professional liability for the opinion. What this does is reduce what you need that lawyer for, and make the time you do buy far better targeted.
So what do I still need a lawyer for?
Anything turning on judgement or enforceability. Whether a clause holds up in your jurisdiction, what your genuine exposure is, whether a risk is acceptable, anything high-value or unusual, disputes, litigation, and specialist areas such as securities, employment tribunals, or regulated sectors. Marco flags those rather than attempting them, and prepares the file so the conversation starts efficiently.
What kinds of documents can he handle?
The commercial paperwork a growing business actually deals with: NDAs, vendor and supplier terms, client service agreements, MSAs and SOWs, contractor agreements, subscription and licensing terms, website policies, and lease documents. Specialized instruments belong with a specialist.
Which jurisdictions does he work across?
He reads and drafts against the jurisdiction you name and flags where local requirements are likely to apply. Where governing law sits outside your own jurisdiction, that is stated explicitly with a recommendation to involve local counsel, because enforceability is exactly the sort of question that needs a qualified answer.
Is it safe to send him confidential contracts?
Your documents stay inside your own workspace and are not used to train anything. Given that this is precisely the question a legal page should answer carefully, the full detail on storage, processing, and retention is on our trust and security pages rather than summarized in a sentence here.
Can he sign or send things on my behalf?
He drafts and prepares, you approve and send. Anything leaving under your name, a redline, a termination notice, a signature, waits for you. That boundary is deliberate: the drafting is the work, and the commitment is the decision.
What happens to contracts we signed before hiring him?
They get gathered into the register in the first pass, including scanned and photographed ones, with key dates extracted. That historical sweep is usually where the first surprise appears, most often an auto-renewal nobody was tracking.
Specialists
- Contract Review and Redline — Know what you are signing before you sign it
- NDA and Vendor Agreement Review — Turn the routine paperwork pile into a same-day yes or no
- Contract Drafting and Templates — Your own paperwork, ready before the conversation cools
- Policies, Terms, and Privacy Pages — The documents your website is supposed to have
- Compliance Review and Mapping — Find out what applies to you before someone else does
- Contract Register and Renewal Dates — Never auto-renew into something you meant to cancel
- Legal Research and Plain-Language Memos — Understand the rule before you pay someone to apply it
- Signature Chase and Document Filing — The deal is not done until the file is signed and findable