Contract Guard

The problem

Signing commercial contracts without a legal review is a massive financial risk, but hiring an attorney for every small SOW or NDA is too expensive and slow. Non-lawyers often miss "gotcha" clauses like auto-renewals, uncapped liability, or broad IP assignments hidden in standard boilerplate.

What it does

• Identifies contract types and assesses risk based on whether you are the service provider, client, or disclosing party.
• Flags critical risks in liability, indemnification, IP ownership, termination rights, and restrictive covenants.
• Compares every clause against market-standard patterns to detect one-sided or non-standard terms.
• Generates a key-terms summary table covering effective dates, notice windows, payment terms, and governing law.
• Provides suggested redline language and fallback terms to use in negotiations.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Generic prompts often miss the nuance of "missing" clauses or fail to evaluate risk based on your specific role in the transaction. This skill uses a systematic multi-step triage process and a dedicated reference library to ensure consistency across NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs without hallucinating legal standards.

Use cases

• Reviewing vendor MSAs to ensure liability is capped and termination for convenience is mutual.
• Checking inbound NDAs for unfair survival periods or missing standard exclusions.
• Auditing consulting agreements to confirm IP assignment doesn't capture your pre-existing tools.
• Scanning SOWs for misaligned payment terms or lack of clear cure periods.

Known limitations

Cannot verify the accuracy of insurance certificates or physical facts. Restrictive covenant analysis is for informational purposes only and does not track state-specific case law changes.