How StandardContracts.io is different
1. Balanced + independent terms = quicker + smoother contracting
Structured to drive focus on higher risk legal + commercial items
Better use of commercial + legal resources
Choose how much (or how little) to negotiate
✖︎ Not templates which encourage negotiation of lower risk provisions
✖︎ Not skewed in either party’s favour by their lawyers / contract managers
✖︎ Avoid protracted and adversarial negotiations
Balanced + neutral contract terms
Drafted independently of the parties
Quicker and smoother contracting
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Quickly closed contracts means:
you can get on with executing business faster
time, effort and money saved
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Smooth (not adversarial) contract negotiations ensure that:
relationships start out on the right foot
you build trust (not wariness) during contracting. Mistrust can linger long after contentious contract negotiations are completed
you avoid contract burnout. Protracted, contentious contract negotiations take their toll on all involved
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We seek to make our contracts fair, balanced + mutual for all parties
Contracts produced by other document providers are often not. E.g., ~disclaimer from another document provider: “This Agreement is drafted in favour of the supplier/vendor from a commercial and legal point of view”
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Maintain consistency across contracts (rather than different contracts with completely different terms and completely different risks), to support scalability and efficiency
Our contracts have consistent terminology and defined terms, and the same common provisions across all contracts
Change of mind in relation to how much reliance there is on default terms? No problem. You can effortlessly adopt a different approach later. Simply choose another version of the same contract which has the different level of items confirm that you require
2. Focus on higher risk legal + commercial items
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Our contracts are structured to ensure that higher risk legal and commercial items get the attention they need
Ensure best use of time and effort by your internal and external commercial and legal subject matter experts by focusing on those higher risk items
Allow higher risk items to be easily allocated between internal and external subject matter experts
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Ensure that key points of contention with the other party get identified and resolved quickly, and not buried in a multitude of contractual discussion points
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Our contracts allow you to choose how much is “on the table” and, conversely, to what extent the default terms incorporated via hyperlink are leveraged
Our explanatory notes show the differences between the versions available (less items for negotiation/more defaults vs. more items for negotiation/less defaults)
You choose how much or how little to leave up for negotiation
3. No AI hallucinations or disclaimers; not AI documents which allow for negotiation of every term
Real people with real experience who are incentivised by simplicity and ease of use
Use AI to review our contracts
✖︎ No AI hallucinations or disclaimers
✖︎ Not AI-produced documents which allow for negotiation of every contract term
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There are no AI hallucinations within our contracts. We are real people with real experience
Our contracts do not come with disclaimers that AI-produced materials do. ~AI disclaimers:
“We can make errors”
“Our documents can contain mistakes”
“Make sure you check our response and triple-check anything that is important“
(Of course you need to make sure our contracts are right for you, but that is different)
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AI-produced documents allow for negotiation of every contractual term
Our contracts do not - they are structured to ensure that higher risk legal and commercial items get the attention they need
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Unlike AI, we have seen how and why heavily negotiated contracts ultimately end up in the place they do. We know how to get to that end point without expending unnecessary time, effort, money and resources. AI does not
Our contracts are not designed to force you to come to us for paid services. Others’ documents often are
Others are often incentivised by complexity, and the resulting effort and cost. We are not
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Go for it!