Prior contract language is useful only when its commercial context travels with it.
Fast access to comparable positions protects review speed, while citation-backed context protects the lawyer’s judgment.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I found three old clauses this morning, and each came from a completely different deal.”
Cheruiyot Seyoum · Senior Commercial Counsel
Reviews supplier and customer agreements for an enterprise legal department and must explain negotiated positions to business owners.
What is at stake
Counsel are reopening old contracts because similar wording does not prove a comparable deal. You have to weigh retrieval breadth against citations lawyers can safely rely on.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- retrieval breadth vs. commercial comparability
- review speed vs. citation inspection
- shared infrastructure vs. product learning
- precedent usefulness vs. approved-position boundaries
Why Harvey
Harvey in Word places playbook review and agentic editing inside the contract workflow where lawyers need defensible precedent.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.