Check contracts for unfavourable and missing clauses
Companies check contracts for unfavourable or missing clauses and have counter-wording suggested
Fits: Leaders & strategy · Sales · Purchasing · Legal & compliance
Every draft contract from the other side is checked against your own negotiating position: deviations and missing clauses are listed in a table with their location, plus a suggested wording. Purchasing and the legal department negotiate faster and miss less.
Is this for you?
- You regularly receive contracts from the other side, such as supply, service, software or non-disclosure agreements.
- You have your own position on the important clauses or are prepared to write it down.
- A legal department or an instructed law firm is available for the critical points.
Write down your position on six important clauses for one type of contract, such as liability, term and termination, payment terms, place of jurisdiction. Take a publicly available model contract or an old contract of your own without names and prices, and have it checked using the template below. Compare the table with what your legal department would have noted.
How to go about it
- Write down your negotiating position for each type of contract
- Put the draft contract and related documents together
- Set up the clause check in the approved tool
- Pass critical deviations to the legal department
- Negotiate and justify counter-proposals
- Refine the clause catalogue after negotiations
Templates to copy
The complete guide
- 6 steps explaining exactly what to do
- 3 proven templates to copy into your own AI
- Safe use: data, checking, deciding, informing
- Pitfalls, effort and how to recognise success
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A-075 · Legal status 08.10.2026