Founder
Hi, I'm Sneha.
I'm an IP and commercial lawyer based in Edinburgh, and the founder of Pactora. I've always been interested in how technology can make people's lives easier — which is how a lawyer ended up becoming a Product Manager.
Why I built Pactora
As a lawyer, I reviewed hundreds of commercial contracts. What struck me every time was not the complexity — it was how often the people signing them had no idea what they were agreeing to.
Founders signing supplier agreements. Freelancers accepting client contracts. Small business owners reviewing terms they couldn't decode. They weren't careless — they just didn't have the background to know which clauses mattered, what the risks were, or how to push back without sounding difficult.
Getting a lawyer to review every contract isn't realistic for most people. It's expensive, slow, and often overkill for agreements that just need a clear read. But signing blind isn't the answer either.
Pactora is what I wished existed for the people on the other side of those contracts.
What Pactora does
Pactora is an AI tool that helps you understand what you're actually signing. Upload your contract — PDF or Word — and within about 30 seconds you get a structured breakdown of the risks, written in plain English.
It works in three steps:
- 01
Upload your contract
PDF or Word. Vendor agreements, client contracts, NDAs, service agreements — anything with standard commercial clauses.
- 02
Get a plain-English risk breakdown
12 clause areas reviewed by specialist AI agents, each reading the whole contract from your side of the deal. Every finding quotes the exact language it rests on, with a page reference.
- 03
Know exactly what to push back on — and how
For every flagged clause you get a negotiation ladder: your opening position, an acceptable fallback, and a ready-to-use script. Go into the conversation prepared, not blind.
It knows your situation, not just the contract
Most tools read the contract in isolation. Pactora asks about the deal from your side — because a clause that's acceptable for a 50-person company can be genuinely dangerous for a two-person team.
Before running the analysis, you tell Pactora:
Which side you're on
Supplier or buyer — so every flag is read from your position, not a neutral one.
Your team size
Impacts what SLA commitments and support obligations are realistic for you to take on.
Revenue from this deal
Helps weigh whether a commercial risk is proportionate to what you're actually gaining.
Your support capacity
Hours per month — so Pactora can flag when a contract demands more than you can deliver.
Pactora also auto-extracts the commercial context from the contract itself — deal value, term length, liability cap, data type handled, and governing law — and uses all of that together to calibrate which risks actually matter for you.
12 clause areas
The clauses most likely to create risk for founders and freelancers — buried in standard templates and easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for.
Liability cap
How much you could be on the hook for, whether that is proportionate to the deal value, and whether the cap applies to both sides or only one.
Indemnities
Who covers whose losses, for what, and whether an indemnity sits outside the liability cap — which is how a capped contract turns out to be uncapped.
IP ownership
Who owns what gets built, whether your existing work is swept up in an assignment, and how far any licence you grant extends.
Data protection
GDPR roles, breach notification windows, what happens to data when the contract ends, and who answers for sub-processors.
Termination
Who can end the contract, how much notice they owe you, whether you get a chance to fix a problem first, and what survives.
Auto-renewal
Whether the contract rolls over on its own, how long the window to stop it is, and how easy that window is to miss.
Fee increases
Whether the price can go up, by how much, with how much warning, and whether you can leave if you do not accept it.
Payment terms
When payment falls due, what happens if it is late or disputed, and whether service can be suspended over an unpaid invoice.
Assignment and change of control
Who you can end up contracting with if either side is sold, and whether an ordinary funding round could trigger the other side’s rights.
Governing law
Which country’s law applies, which courts hear a dispute, and what it would cost you to bring or defend one there.
Dispute resolution
Whether you must go through an escalation ladder before raising a formal claim, how long that takes, whether arbitration is mandatory and under which rules, and whether the combined process makes enforcement economically unviable on smaller claims.
Confidentiality
Whether the NDA binds both sides equally, how broadly "confidential information" is defined, whether standard carve-outs are missing, and whether a residuals clause lets the other side reuse what you share.
It's not a lawyer replacement.
Pactora is built to help you walk into that conversation already knowing what matters — and to flag clearly when something is serious enough that you need to see a lawyer before you sign. It's the step before legal review, not a substitute for it.
I'd love for you to try it and let me know what you think.