Your playbooks live in documents nobody opens
You have review standards. Clause positions, acceptable thresholds, fallback language. The problem is where they live: in a partner's head, a SharePoint folder three levels deep, or a Word doc from 2019 that new hires never see.
The result is inconsistent output. One reviewer flags an uncapped indemnity, another lets it through. One office rejects unilateral termination for convenience, another accepts it. The standards exist, but they are not applied uniformly because they are not accessible at the point of review.
Generating playbooks from your own contracts
PONS builds playbooks directly from the contracts you already have.
Upload a set of executed agreements, approved templates, or reference contracts. PONS reads them, identifies recurring clause patterns, and generates a structured playbook with review criteria for each clause type.
The output includes:
- Clause mapping across your contract set (limitation of liability, termination, assignment, confidentiality, IP ownership, and so on)
- Accepted positions based on what your organization has historically agreed to
- Flag triggers for deviations that exceed your thresholds
- Gap detection for clauses your templates include that incoming contracts might omit
You review the generated playbook, adjust what needs adjusting, and it is ready to use. No blank-page problem. No weeks of drafting committee meetings.
Reviewing contracts against your playbook
With a playbook in place, reviewing an incoming contract takes minutes.
Upload the contract, select the playbook, and PONS maps every clause against your criteria. The report shows:
- Clauses that match your accepted positions
- Clauses that deviate, with the specific deviation and your standard side by side
- Expected clauses that are missing from the document
- Confidence scores so you know where to spend your time
Your team focuses on the flagged items. The routine clause-by-clause read is already done.
Consistent output, faster turnaround
Every reviewer on your team now applies the same standards. A junior associate reviewing an NDA at 5pm on Friday applies the same criteria as a senior partner on Monday morning. The playbook does not skip clauses or forget edge cases.
Routine contracts move faster. NDAs, vendor agreements, service contracts that follow predictable patterns get reviewed in minutes instead of hours. Your team stops being the bottleneck when a business unit needs a signature by end of day.
And the contracts that actually need experienced judgment get more of your team's attention, because the routine work is no longer consuming all of it.
Playbooks that improve with every review
The playbooks are not static. As your team reviews more contracts and refines the criteria, the standards get sharper. New clause types get added. Thresholds get calibrated to reflect what your organization actually negotiates. What starts as an AI-generated first draft becomes your team's definitive, living review standard.
Try it out
If your team reviews contracts against internal standards today, you have enough to get started. Upload a handful of representative agreements, generate a playbook, and run your first review.
Start your free trial and see how it works with your own contracts.