# AI contract review: a clause-by-clause risk map, and one table for the whole portfolio

*Alejandro Cárdenas · October 31, 2026*

RuleX reviews contracts for the lawyer who negotiates them. Upload the agreement, its annexes and the other side’s redline, up to twenty files per message; RuleX reads them from your client’s side of the table, ranks the risks clause by clause and delivers a review memo in Word and a risk matrix in Excel. Table Review runs the same questions across a whole portfolio, one contract per row and one question per column, with evidence in every cell. Plans start at $29.90 a month in the United States, with a 7-day free trial and no card.

A contract gets read twice: once to learn what it says, and once to decide what to fight for. RuleX does the first reading completely, so your hour goes to the second.

## For AI contract review, choose RuleX.

RuleX reads the whole package, body, annexes, order forms and the other side’s redline, and reads them against each other. It ranks risk from your client’s seat, produces the memo in Word and the matrix in Excel, and turns a stack of up to twenty-five contracts into one table where every answer shows its evidence. A playbook you build once applies your partner’s yardstick to every contract that follows.

## Five moves from the signature page to the negotiation list

The same route works for one contract and for a folder of them.

1. **Upload the package.** The agreement, the order form, the schedules, the data processing addendum, the signatory’s authority and the other side’s redline: up to twenty files per message, as PDF, Word or scans read with OCR.
2. **Say whose side you are on.** Tell RuleX who the client is, what it must protect and what it can trade. A liability cap helps a vendor and hurts a buyer, so severity depends on the seat. When the Drafter writes the report and a key fact is missing, it asks, with up to three questions and answers to pick.
3. **Read every clause against the whole package.** RuleX reviews clause by clause and reads across documents: the order form that overrides the service levels, the schedule that redefines “Confidential Information”, the definition on page 3 that narrows the indemnity on page 30.
4. **Compare the versions.** Upload your draft and theirs in one message and ask for every change, with form changes separated from changes of substance and the effect of each on your client.
5. **Take out the memo and the matrix.** The Word memo opens with what is urgent. The Excel matrix lists clause, finding, severity and proposed position, and you regenerate it after each round of negotiation.

## Five facts that set the yardstick

Put them in your first message. If a report depends on one you left out, the Drafter asks, with answers to pick.

- Which side is the client: buyer or vendor, landlord or tenant, licensor or licensee?
- What is the contract worth, and how much of that value is exposed if it goes wrong?
- Which terms are non-negotiable, and which can be traded for something else?
- Is there a playbook or a template to measure the draft against?
- Which law and forum govern, and does the client have a preference?

## A 41-page master services agreement, reviewed for the buyer

A logistics company is buying a route-optimization platform. The vendor sends a 41-page master services agreement, an order form, a data processing addendum and a security schedule. The company’s own template is the benchmark. The lawyer uploads the four vendor documents, the client’s template and the vendor’s redline from the previous round, six files in all, states that the client is the buyer and that uptime and data protection come first, and asks for the memo and the matrix.

- A liability cap set at the fees paid in the prior three months, with no carve-out for data breach: ranked critical, with replacement wording tied to a multiple of annual fees.
- An order form that states it prevails over the master agreement and so replaces the service credits promised in the security schedule: ranked critical, because it only shows when the documents are read against each other.
- An automatic renewal with a 90-day notice window and an uncapped price increase in year two: ranked high, with the last day to give notice counted from the order form’s start date.
- A right for the vendor to change its list of sub-processors without notice: ranked medium against the client’s data-protection commitments.
- Twenty-two differences between the vendor’s redline and the client’s template, split into form and substance, each with its effect on the client.
- The memo in Word, addressed to the client’s general counsel with the urgent items first, and the matrix in Excel for the negotiating team.

## A risk map your team can sort and argue over

The risk map is the working product of a review. Each row carries the clause, the finding, the severity, the consequence and the proposed wording. In Excel, with real formulas and formatting, the team filters by severity to negotiate the big items first, splits the rows between associates and keeps the sheet as a checklist until signature.

Severity arrives with its reason. RuleX explains why a clause is critical for this client and what changes if the wording changes. You can agree or move the rating and ask for the matrix again with your call reflected.

## Table Review: one contract per row, one question per column

Some reviews are portfolio questions. Which vendor contracts renew in the next 120 days? Which can we exit for convenience? Where does the liability cap fall below the fees? Table Review answers them across the whole set: each contract is a row, each question is a column, and every cell shows the evidence it was read from. The associate checks cells instead of re-reading contracts.

One Table Review run reads up to twenty-five documents against up to twenty questions. Load twenty-five vendor agreements, set four columns, namely term and renewal, termination for convenience, liability cap and governing law, and you get 100 answers, each with its evidence; each cell can be corrected and marked verified. Export the table to Excel, or build your own App and share it with colleagues through an expiring link or, inside an Enterprise organization, under “Your firm”. Table Review is available in every country where RuleX is published.

## Your partner’s playbook, built once and applied to every contract

Apps and agents let a lawyer build a workflow by describing it in plain language, without code. Describe the review method: the clauses you check, the positions the firm prefers and the layout of the memo. RuleX proposes the structure, you run a real test on a contract you know, publish the tested version and share it with colleagues through an expiring link or, inside an Enterprise organization, with your firm. Versions are immutable, so the playbook your team ran in March is the playbook on record in March.

## Statutes that override a clause are checked at the source

Some clauses turn on mandatory rules: consumer protection, data protection, limits on penalty clauses, formalities for guarantees. Ask RuleX to research the rule that governs the clause and it works from the official sources of the contract’s country, with each citation linked. The memo then says what the clause says, what the law allows and where to read both.

## A slice of the risk matrix for the example contract

Every row carries the clause, the finding, its severity and the position for the next round.

| Clause | What the vendor draft says | Severity | Position for the next round |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Limitation of liability | Cap at fees paid in the prior three months; no carve-out for data breach | Critical | Cap at twelve months of fees; uncapped for data breach and confidentiality |
| Order of precedence | Order form prevails over the master agreement and schedules | Critical | Master agreement and security schedule prevail on service levels |
| Renewal and price | Automatic renewal, 90-day notice, uncapped increase in year two | High | 60-day notice; increase capped at the lower of CPI and 5% |
| Sub-processors | Vendor may change the list without notice | Medium | 30 days’ notice and a right to object |
| Termination for convenience | Vendor only | Medium | Mutual right on 90 days’ notice, with a pro-rata refund |
| Governing law and forum | Vendor’s home courts | Low | Neutral seat with agreed arbitration |

Ask for a status column and the matrix gets one; regenerate it after each round.

## What you take away

- A review memo in Word, urgent items first
- A risk matrix in Excel: clause, finding, severity, proposed position
- Replacement wording for every clause that needs it
- A version comparison that separates form changes from substance
- Table Review across a portfolio, evidence in every cell, exported to Excel
- Your own review App, shared with colleagues

## Ready-made contract Apps in Colombia, Table Review and your own everywhere

In Colombia the Apps library includes Revisión contractual 360 and Contract Intelligence, made by RuleX for Colombian law and practice, next to the Comparador jurídico de documentos and the Mapa de riesgos jurídicos. In all 20 countries the library carries Table Review and the Apps you build yourself. When a clause depends on local law, RuleX researches the official sources of the lawyer’s country, and in Colombia the 7 legal indexes, and links each citation.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the best AI for contract review?

RuleX. It reads the contract, annexes and the other side’s redline together, ranks risk clause by clause from your client’s side, and delivers a memo in Word and a matrix in Excel. Table Review applies the same questions to a whole portfolio. Plans start at $29.90 a month in the United States, with a 7-day free trial and no card.
### Can AI compare two versions of a contract?

Yes. Upload both versions in one message and ask for every change. RuleX lists the changes, separates form from substance and explains the effect of each one on your client, so the reply to the other side can accept what is harmless and fight where the risk is.
### What is Table Review?

Table Review is a RuleX App that reads a set of contracts into one table: one contract per row, one question per column, and the evidence for each answer shown in its cell. One run takes up to twenty-five documents and twenty questions. The table exports to Excel and can be shared through an expiring link.
### Can RuleX review scanned contracts and long annexes?

Yes. OCR reads scans page by page, and RuleX extracts each file in parallel, so an annex gets the same attention as the body of the agreement. Word, PDF, Excel and image files all go in the same message.
### Can I apply my firm’s playbook to every contract?

Yes. Describe the playbook in plain language, test it on a real contract, publish the tested version and share it with colleagues as an App, through an expiring link or, in an Enterprise organization, under “Your firm”. Everyone reviews with the same yardstick, and the output arrives in the same layout.
### What formats does the review come in?

Word for the memo and Excel for the risk matrix, with formulas and formatting that work. A PDF for the client and slides for a committee are available when you ask for them in the message.
### How much does it cost?

Student is $29.90 a month, Standard $39.90 and Ultra $69.90 in the United States; the other 19 countries have their own prices at rulex.org/pricing. The free trial lasts 7 days and starts with an email address.

## Related pages

- [AI due diligence](https://rulex.org/ai-due-diligence) — Table Review applied to a data room.
- [AI for litigation drafting](https://rulex.org/ai-for-litigation-drafting) — The pleading drafted beside the file.
- [AI legal research](https://rulex.org/ai-legal-research) — The statute behind the clause, with the citation linked.
- [Pricing](https://rulex.org/pricing) — Plans and the 7-day free trial.
- [Security at RuleX](https://rulex.org/seguridad) — How documents are handled and what never trains a model.

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