What Pactora checks

A specialist agent reads the whole contract for each of these, from the side of the deal you tell us you are on. Findings quote the language they are based on, with a page reference.

• 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.

Structural checks on the document itself. These are either true of the text or not, so there is no model and no judgement in them.

• Referenced documents that are missing

  Schedules, annexes and exhibits the contract points at but which were not part of what you uploaded — terms you would be agreeing to without having read them.

• Terms used but never defined

  Words capitalised as though they carry a specific agreed meaning, where no definition appears anywhere.

• Definitions that are never used

  A defined term nothing later relies on. Usually harmless, occasionally a sign something was cut from an earlier draft.

• Terms defined more than once

  The same term defined twice, which matters when the two definitions do not say the same thing.