You don't need a lawyer for every contract.
You need your rules applied to every contract. Kontractually does that automatically - checking every document against your playbook and flagging issues before you sign. No legal training required.
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What changes when you stop hoping you didn't miss something.
A small business receives a vendor contract for office supplies. The owner reads through it but misses an auto-renewal clause buried in section 12. They end up locked in for another 2 years.
Kontractually flags the auto-renewal clause in 2 minutes and highlights that no cancellation window exists. The owner negotiates a 30-day opt-out before signing.
A startup signs a client services agreement without noticing the liability cap is missing entirely. When a project goes wrong, they're exposed to unlimited damages.
Kontractually's playbook rule catches the missing liability cap immediately. The startup adds a cap at 12 months of fees before execution.
A business pays their lawyer $800 to review a straightforward supplier NDA. The lawyer confirms it's fine - no changes needed. $800 for peace of mind.
Kontractually reviews the NDA in 90 seconds against the company's standard terms. Result: all clauses pass. The business saves their legal budget for contracts that actually need a lawyer.
Every contract type your business touches.
Pre-built playbook templates cover the documents that create the most risk - no legal background needed.
Vendor and supplier agreements
Vendor contracts often contain auto-renewal traps, unilateral price adjustment clauses, and liability exclusions that shift all risk to the buyer. Kontractually checks every vendor agreement against your standard purchasing terms and flags deviations before you commit.
Client service agreements
Service agreements define your obligations, liability exposure, and payment terms. Missing a liability cap or accepting unlimited indemnity can be catastrophic. Kontractually reviews every client contract against your playbook so nothing gets signed without scrutiny.
Partnership and JV agreements
Partnership and joint venture agreements involve shared liability, IP ownership, and exit terms that are easy to overlook. Kontractually flags imbalanced obligations, missing dispute resolution mechanisms, and vague IP assignment clauses.
Employment contracts
Employment contracts need to comply with local minimum standards for notice periods, leave entitlements, and restraint clauses. Kontractually checks employment terms against your compliance playbook and flags non-compliant or unenforceable provisions across your entire workforce.
Yes. You are not required by law to use a lawyer to review or sign a contract. Businesses review their own contracts every day. The practical question is whether you have the knowledge and tools to catch what matters. Kontractually gives you a systematic, rule-based framework for doing that - which is more reliable than reading through a document hoping to spot problems.
Standard, high-repetition contract types are the best candidates: NDAs, master service agreements, subcontractor agreements, employment contracts, commercial leases, supplier terms, and compliance documents. The more you see similar contracts, the more your playbook improves, and the more confident your reviews become. Complex, one-off transactions - M&A, large property developments, novel financial instruments - should still involve legal counsel.
That's the real question. Kontractually is designed to reduce the probability of missing material issues - by applying your rules consistently to every document, not just the ones you happen to read carefully on a given day. That said, it's not infallible, and the output should be treated as a starting point for human review, not a final clearance. Confidence scores indicate where the AI is less certain, and low-confidence flags are labelled clearly.
Commercial lawyers typically charge $350-$600/hour (AU) or $300-$500/hour (US and UK). A routine contract review (NDA, subcontractor agreement, employment contract) takes 1-3 hours. That's $300-$1,800 per contract. For a business processing 50 standard contracts a year, that's $15,000-$90,000 annually - for work that Kontractually can screen in advance, reducing the billable work to genuinely complex items.
No. The pre-built playbook templates include the rules - you don't need to know which clauses to check or why. You review the flags Kontractually raises against plain-English explanations. Over time, you'll build familiarity with your standard contracts and may customise your playbook rules. But on day one, the templates work without any legal background.
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