How it works
The step before legal review. Arrive prepared, not blind.
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Upload your contract
PDF or Word. Vendor agreements, client contracts, NDAs, service agreements and any contract with standard clauses.
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Tell us about your deal
Which side of the contract you're on, your team size, expected revenue from the deal, and your support capacity. This is what makes the analysis specific to you.
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Get a risk breakdown
12 clause areas analysed, calibrated to your situation. Plain-English flags on what's unusual, missing, or one-sided — weighted against your team size, deal value, and capacity, not a generic read. For longer contracts, semantic reranking via Isaacus Kanon 2 ensures each specialist only reads the section most likely to contain its clause.
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Get your negotiation ladder
For every flagged clause, you get a clear position to take and a script to use. Go into the conversation prepared.
12 clauses. Most contracts have at least one issue.
The clauses most likely to create risk for founders and freelancers, buried in standard templates and easy to miss.
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.
Not just what's wrong. What to do about it.
Most tools flag the problem and stop there. Pactora gives you a negotiation ladder for every flagged clause: your ideal position, an acceptable fallback, and the exact script to open the conversation.
Whether you're pushing back by email or sitting across a table, you'll know exactly what to say.