Contract Review and Redline Agent
The Contract Review and Redline Agent reads an incoming contract, tests every clause against your playbook, South African law and market practice, and proposes tracked-change redlines directly in Word. Each change carries a short explanation, and the agent produces a risk summary that ranks the issues so you know where to negotiate first.
Ideal forCommercial attorneys
The difference
From 3-5 hours per contract to 30-60 minutes
Attorneys spend their time negotiating the points that matter rather than reading boilerplate line by line.
Done by hand
3-5 hours per contract
With the Vanine agent
30-60 minutes
Time returned to your team
80%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
Your playbook applied every time
Positions on liability caps, indemnities, termination and payment terms are applied consistently, whichever attorney or manager picks up the contract.
SA law built into the review
The agent checks for Consumer Protection Act, POPIA, National Credit Act and Companies Act issues that generic contract tools miss, so local risks surface before signature.
Faster turnaround for the business
Commercial teams get a marked-up draft and a plain-language risk summary quickly, so deals move without legal becoming the bottleneck.
Capabilities
Playbook-aligned redlines and a clear risk summary, in hours not days.
Built for commercial attorneys, in-house legal teams, legal advisers and contract managers at South African law firms and corporates.
Playbook clause testing
Compares each clause to your approved positions and fallbacks, and marks where the draft departs from what your organisation will accept.
Tracked-change redlines in word
Proposes redlines as native Word tracked changes with margin comments explaining the reason, ready for the reviewing attorney to accept, edit or reject.
Consumer protection act checks
Where the CPA applies, flags unfair or unreasonable terms, notice requirements for risky terms, section 14 fixed-term cancellation rights and section 22 plain language.
POPIA and data clauses
Checks operator obligations under section 21, security safeguards and breach notification, and cross-border transfers under section 72 where personal information is processed.
Credit and corporate law flags
Highlights where the National Credit Act may apply to credit terms, and checks authority, signatory and Companies Act requirements for the contracting entity.
Risk summary and negotiation notes
Produces a ranked summary of high, medium and low risks with suggested negotiation positions, so you can brief the client or business in minutes.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
The responsible attorney reviews every redline and gives the legal advice. Nothing is sent to the counterparty until they approve it.
Connect the places your contracts already live.
The contract in Word or PDF from Outlook, SharePoint or your document management system, together with your playbook and clause library. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Microsoft Word (tracked changes and comments)
- Copilot Studio
- iManage and NetDocuments
- LegalSuite and GhostPractice
- DocuSign and Adobe Sign
Runs in Word, Teams or OpenAI Frontier on request, using the models your organisation approves.
A redlined Word document with explanatory comments and a risk summary, saved back to the matter file.
Step by step
- 01
A contract arrives by email or is saved to the matter folder.
- 02
The agent identifies the contract type and loads the matching playbook.
- 03
It reviews each clause against the playbook, SA law and market practice.
- 04
It inserts tracked-change redlines with comments and drafts the risk summary.
- 05
The responsible attorney reviews, adjusts and approves the mark-up.
- 06
The approved draft goes to the counterparty and the file is updated.
Deployment
Runs inside the tools your team already uses
The same agent and the same cited output, delivered three ways: through the AI assistant you have rolled out, on a model you host yourself, or inside your own software.
In the frontier assistant you already pay for
We publish the agent as an MCP server. Add it as a connector and your team calls it from the chat they use every day, with no new tool to learn.
"Split the agreement into clauses"
- counterparty
- Cloud services supplier
- playbook
- Procurement v6
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your contracts never leave your network, which keeps POPIA and data residency straightforward.
- Llama
- Mistral
- Ollama
- or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Inside your own software
Trigger a run from your own workflows, and push the finished output into your ERP, GRC or reporting systems. We build the integration with your team.
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Batch jobs
- Embeddable review panel
Governed the same way, every route
Whichever way your team reaches the agent, identity, permissions and audit stay with your existing controls.
- Single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace
- Reads only the documents each user is already allowed to open
- Every tool call written to an audit log you can export
How we deliver it
One agent, three ways to hold it
Start where your team already works, then take it as far into your systems as the value justifies.
DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your contracts stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your contracts. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR CONTRACTS NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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