The average SMB spends $28,000/yr
on external legal fees.
Most of it is routine contract review - NDAs, standard supplier terms, employment contracts. Kontractually automates the first pass so your legal budget goes to the situations that actually need a lawyer.
No credit card required. First 3 reviews free.
A review system that pays for itself in the first month.
Build your playbook once
Define your rules in Kontractually - the clauses every contract must contain, the language that's prohibited, the payment terms you'll accept. Industry templates get you started in 10 minutes. Your playbook captures your legal standard so you never start from scratch.
Review contracts automatically
Upload any contract - PDF or DOCX. Kontractually extracts the text, maps clauses to your playbook rules, and returns a structured report in 3 minutes. Every flag includes the relevant section, the rule it violated, and a plain-English explanation.
Send lawyers only what they need
Most routine contracts are fine, or have issues you can handle yourself. When Kontractually flags something genuinely complex, you go to your lawyer with a targeted question - not a $1,200 'please review this.' One 15-minute call replaces a 3-hour review.
What the maths looks like for a typical SMB.
A business processing 80 contracts a year at an average of $500 each is spending $40,000 in legal fees. That's before disputes, retainers, or the calls that come after contracts are signed.
Kontractually doesn't replace your lawyer. It eliminates the routine reviews - so your legal budget goes to the situations that actually require legal expertise.
Illustrative example. Actual savings depend on contract volume, complexity, and your legal rates.
The average SMB with 20-100 staff spends between $15,000 and $50,000 per year on external legal fees. A significant portion of that - often 40-60% - is routine contract review: NDAs, standard supplier agreements, employment contracts, commercial leases, and subcontractor terms. These reviews cost from $175/hr in smaller US cities and £300/hr in the UK, up to $400-$800/hr in major Australian cities - regardless of complexity.
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 process similar contracts, the better your playbook gets, and the more confident your reviews become. Complex, one-off transactions should still involve legal counsel.
No - and we're direct about that. Kontractually is designed to reduce how often you need to call a lawyer - by catching obvious issues in advance and giving you a structured first-pass review. Complex disputes, novel transactions, and genuinely uncertain legal questions still need qualified legal counsel. What Kontractually eliminates is the $600 review of a standard NDA to confirm it's what you expected.
It depends on your contract volume and current legal spend. A business processing 50-100 routine contracts per year at $400-$800 each is spending $20,000-$80,000 annually on legal review. Kontractually can reduce that by 60-80% by handling the routine reviews and reducing complex reviews to targeted questions. Our ROI calculator gives you a specific estimate for your volume.
Kontractually is designed to reduce the probability of missing material issues - by applying your rules consistently to every document. That said, it's not infallible. Confidence scores indicate where the AI is less certain. Low-confidence flags are labelled clearly and recommended for human review. The system is designed to assist, not replace, professional judgement on complex matters.
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