MikeA legal AI workspace for commercial contracts lawyers
Commercial contracts lawyers use Mike to review incoming agreements against a firm or client playbook, redline them in Word with tracked changes, and pull key terms from hundreds of agreements into a table. Every observation cites the clause and page it relied on, so reviewers can check the language fast.
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Attorney: Review the limitation of liability in the Tamarack agreement against our customer playbook and redline anything that misses.
Mike: The liability cap misses the playbook. Section 11.2 caps Tamarack's liability at fees paid in the prior three months [1], while the playbook requires twelve months [2]. Section 11.4 also excludes data breach losses from recovery altogether [3]. I redlined both sections using the playbook's fallback language so you can review them.
- [1] Tamarack master services agreement, § 11.2, p. 17
- [2] Customer playbook, Limitation of liability, p. 3
- [3] Tamarack master services agreement, § 11.4, p. 18
Mike created Tamarack MSA redline.docx.
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Contract work repeats. The same limitation of liability, indemnity, termination and renewal questions arrive in a different order with different wording each time. Mike reads the agreement the way a careful second-year would, compares each clause to the position you want to hold, and tells you where the draft falls short and what the fallback language says.
Cuanto Labs installs Mike for your firm, connects it to the folders where your agreements already sit, and loads your playbooks and clause libraries as saved workflows. Counterparty drafts received in confidence stay inside your firm's own installation.
What Mike does for your practice
- Playbook review
- Load a playbook and Mike checks an incoming agreement against each position: acceptable, needs negotiation, or unacceptable. For every clause that misses, it quotes the language, cites the page and proposes your firm's fallback wording.
- Redlines with tracked changes
- Mike edits the Word document directly, with each change shown as a tracked insertion or deletion and a short comment explaining why. Reviewers accept or reject the edits in the document the same way they would a colleague's.
- Clause extraction across a portfolio
- Tabular Review runs the same questions over every agreement in a folder, such as term, auto-renewal, notice period, governing law, assignment and liability cap, and returns a sortable table. A general counsel can see which contracts renew next quarter without opening any of them.
- First drafts from your templates
- Describe the deal and Mike drafts a master services agreement, statement of work, NDA or license from your firm's template, filling parties, scope and commercial terms from the instructions and the documents you point it to.
- Version comparison
- When a counterparty returns a markup, Mike compares it with the last version you sent and lists every substantive change in plain language, including edits made without tracked changes.
- Enforceability research
- Mike searches published case law on questions such as the enforceability of a limitation of liability or an auto-renewal clause, and reads the opinions before it summarizes them. Case-law citations are checked against CourtListener before they appear in an answer.
- Amendment and renewal tracking
- Mike reads a contract file including its amendments and side letters and reports which terms are currently in force, so the answer reflects the whole file and not only the original signature copy.
How we set it up for your firm
- Your agreement repository, connected
- We connect Mike to the drive or document system where executed agreements and drafts are stored, so attorneys ask about a contract without uploading it again.
- Playbooks as saved workflows
- Your negotiation positions, fallbacks and escalation rules become reusable workflows, one per agreement type, so every reviewer starts from the same standard.
- Templates and clause libraries
- We load your form agreements, preferred clauses and approved fallback language so drafts and redlines come back in the wording your partners expect.
- Extraction templates
- We set up Tabular Review templates for the fields your clients track, with column names and formats chosen to match the contract summaries you already produce.
- Approval paths for deviations
- We record who must approve each departure from your playbook, such as a non-standard indemnity or an uncapped liability clause, so Mike's issues list names the approver for each flagged clause.
Questions attorneys ask
Can Mike apply our own playbook?
Yes. We load your negotiation positions and fallback language as a saved workflow, so Mike checks each incoming agreement against your standard and not a generic one. It quotes the clause, says which position it misses, and proposes your approved fallback. A lawyer decides which changes to send to the counterparty.
Does it edit the Word file or produce a separate report?
Both are available. Mike can write a short issues summary, and it can also edit the agreement itself with tracked changes and comments. Because the edits are ordinary Word revisions, your lawyers can accept, reject or rewrite them without leaving the tools they use every day. That also lets a partner see precisely what a junior lawyer changed before it goes out.
How does Tabular Review help with a contract portfolio?
You pick the fields and Mike reads each agreement in the folder and fills one row per contract, with the clause and page behind every cell. That turns a renewal audit or an assignment review into a table you can sort and filter. Cells where the agreement is silent are marked, not guessed.
Will Mike tell a client whether a clause is enforceable?
Mike can search published case law on the question and summarize the opinions it read, with links so you can confirm each one. Whether a clause is enforceable in a given state and context is a judgment for the attorney. Mike does the research and drafting that supports that judgment.
Can Mike compare a counterparty draft with our last signed version?
Yes. Point Mike at the two files and it lists what changed, clause by clause, separating edits the other side flagged from changes made without comment. It can then insert the differences as tracked changes in your version. Lawyers should still read the unchanged sections, where a defined term elsewhere may have shifted their meaning.
What happens when a clause has no match in our playbook?
Mike marks the clause as outside the playbook, quotes it, and summarizes what it does, instead of forcing it into the closest category. A lawyer then decides whether to accept it, rewrite it or add a new position to the workflow. Over time the playbook grows to cover the clauses your clients actually see.
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