Sistava

Contract Review and Redline

AI Legal Support

Know what you are signing before you sign it

Every contract that lands in your inbox gets read in full, clause by clause, against the terms you already told Marco you accept. He comes back with a plain-English summary, the clauses that differ from your standard position, and a marked-up version you can send back.,The output is not a verdict. It is the prepared file a lawyer would otherwise spend two billable hours building: what the document says, where it deviates, what it would cost you if the other side ever enforced it.,You still decide what to sign, and anything genuinely contentious still goes to your lawyer. The difference is that it goes to them scoped, with the boring 90 percent already handled.

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How It Works

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At a Glance

Full
Document read, not sampled
Clause
Level of the deviation report
24/7
A contract at 11pm gets read at 11pm
Redline
Returned in the format they expect

The Real Cost of an Unread Contract

Most small businesses do not read the contracts they sign. Not out of carelessness, but arithmetic: a careful read is an hour you do not have, and a lawyer for every vendor NDA is an invoice you cannot justify. So the document gets skimmed for the price and the term, and everything else is accepted on trust. The clauses that hurt later are rarely the ones anyone skims for. Auto-renewal with a short notice window, unilateral price escalation, an indemnity that survives termination, an IP assignment buried in a services schedule. None of those look alarming in isolation, and all of them are found by a reader who goes clause by clause every single time.

Where a Paralegal Ends and a Lawyer Begins

The distinction matters and we hold it deliberately. Reading a document, comparing it to a known standard, restating it in plain words, drafting alternative wording, and tracking what was agreed is paralegal work, and it is the bulk of the hours. Deciding whether a term is enforceable in your jurisdiction, what your exposure genuinely is, and whether to accept a risk is legal advice, and it needs a qualified human who carries professional liability for the answer. Marco does the first category and hands you a scoped question for the second. If your lawyer currently bills you for reading, that is the part this changes.

Consistency Is the Underrated Part

A human reviewer on a Friday afternoon is a different reviewer than the same person on Tuesday morning. Attention drifts, the fourth NDA of the day gets less scrutiny than the first, and the clause everyone knows to check is the one that gets assumed. A reviewer that applies the identical checklist to the tenth document and the first is not smarter than a good lawyer, it is simply never tired. For high-volume, low-variance documents such as vendor NDAs and standard supplier terms, that consistency is worth more than brilliance.

FAQ

Is this legal advice?

No, and you should not treat it as such. Marco does paralegal work: reading, comparing, summarizing, drafting, and tracking. Legal advice on your specific situation comes from a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction. What this does is make that lawyer cheaper to use, because they receive a scoped question instead of an unread contract.

What kinds of contracts can he review?

The commercial documents a small business actually sees: NDAs, vendor and supplier terms, client service agreements, MSAs, SOWs, subscription and licensing terms, contractor agreements, and lease documents. Highly specialized instruments such as securities, M&A, or litigation filings belong with a specialist lawyer.

How does he know what my standard terms are?

You tell him once, in plain language or by uploading a contract you were happy with. He keeps that as your standard position and measures every future document against it. When you change your mind on a term, you say so and the yardstick updates.

Can he negotiate directly with the other side?

He drafts the redline and the covering message, and you send it. Anything that goes out under your name stays behind your approval, which is the correct place for that decision to sit.

What happens with a contract in another language?

He reads and reports in the language you work in. For a document whose governing law is outside your jurisdiction, the summary says so explicitly and recommends local counsel, because enforceability is exactly the kind of question that needs a qualified answer.