Review this contract and flag risky clauses
Your AI CEO catches the gotchas before you sign.
You'd think this needs $400/hr legal — Astra catches the same gotchas in 20 min and drafts the redlines for free.
The short answer
Astra reviews contracts by reading every clause, comparing to market-standard terms, and flagging anything unusual or unfavorable. She accepts PDF, DOCX, or pasted text, parses the contract by section (definitions, payment, IP, indemnity, liability cap, termination, governing law), checks each against a corpus of standard SaaS/MSA/NDA terms, and surfaces clauses that are: missing standard protections, more aggressive than market, or have hidden cost implications. For each flagged clause she shows the original text, why it's risky, severity (low/medium/high/blocker), and a suggested redline you can send back. Output is a Lark brief with a prioritized list — usually 4-8 items — and the redlines pre-written. For high-stakes contracts she explicitly recommends a human lawyer review specific sections; she's not a substitute for counsel on bet-the-company deals.
How Astra actually does it
- 1Parse the contract
Accept PDF, DOCX, or pasted text. Identify document type (MSA, NDA, employment, vendor SaaS) and parse by section.
- 2Compare to market standards
For each section, compare to baseline SaaS/MSA/NDA terms. Surface deviations: missing protections, aggressive caps, unusual termination, broad IP grabs.
- 3Score severity
Low = annoying, Medium = negotiate, High = walk away if not changed, Blocker = signing this is materially harmful. Each with reasoning.
- 4Draft redlines
Per flagged clause: original text, suggested redline in track-changes format, talking point you can send to opposing counsel.
- 5Recommend lawyer escalation
Explicitly mark sections that need a human lawyer (IP assignment with novel tech, complex earn-outs, regulated industry compliance). Astra is not counsel.
What it looks like in chat
A Lark brief with severity-ranked issues, the original clause text for each, pre-drafted redlines in track-changes format, and explicit flags for clauses needing human lawyer review.
On-demand per contract.
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Is Astra a lawyer?
No. She's a sharp first-pass reviewer trained on standard market terms — she catches 80% of the issues a junior attorney would in 5% of the time. For bet-the-company contracts, regulated-industry deals, M&A, or anything with novel IP, always run her output past a human lawyer. She'll tell you when that line is crossed.
What contract types does she handle?
SaaS subscription agreements, MSAs, NDAs, employment offers, vendor agreements, partnership/reseller deals, basic terms of service. She struggles on highly specialized docs (M&A purchase agreements, complex equity rounds, regulated finance) — she'll explicitly flag when she's out of her depth instead of guessing.
Can she compare two versions of a contract?
Yes — paste both versions and she'll diff them, flagging which changes are favorable, neutral, or worse than the original. Useful when opposing counsel sends back a "slight revision" that quietly worsens 4 clauses.
What jurisdictions does she know?
US (Delaware, California, New York), UK, EU (focused on standard SaaS/data terms), Singapore. For other jurisdictions she'll review structure but warn that local-law nuances may not be caught — recommend a local lawyer for jurisdiction-specific language.
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