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What is playbook review?

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Short answer

Playbook review is checking a contract against your organisation’s own negotiation positions, term by term: what you ask for, what you can accept as a fallback and what you will not sign. In Attorly, each playbook term is a ladder of preferred, fallback and unacceptable positions, and every contract term is graded against it.

How it works in Attorly

  • A playbook holds position ladders, required clauses that must be present and red flags that must trigger review, for one contract type and optionally one jurisdiction and paper side.
  • Redline generation grades each term as compliant, fallback acceptable, non-standard or unacceptable, and proposes an edit for the gaps.
  • Playbooks can be written in Attorly, imported from your existing playbook file, or derived from 3 to 10 contracts you have signed.

Where it stops

  • A grade is only as good as the positions you write. A missing term is not graded.
  • Custom playbooks need Pro or Enterprise; default playbooks cover NDAs, service agreements, employment contracts, SaaS subscriptions and commercial leases.

Frequently asked questions

How is playbook review different from a risk scan?
A risk scan flags what is unusual in general. Playbook review flags what deviates from your positions, so the same clause can pass for one firm and fail for another.

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