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Your position on a clause answers from your own executed contracts
When a redline comes back on indemnity or limitation of liability, the useful question is what you have agreed to before and where you have held the line. That answer is spread across hundreds of executed contracts, a playbook, and the memory of whoever negotiated last. We build a knowledge agent that reads all three together, so 'what is our position on this clause' answers from your own record, with a citation.
You have negotiated this clause before, but the record is buried across hundreds of signed contracts
A counterparty sends back a redline on a limitation-of-liability cap. Knowing how to answer means knowing what your standard position is, what you have conceded on similar deals, and where you have refused to move. All three exist, and all three are hard to reach: the standard sits in a playbook, the concessions are scattered across executed contracts, and the reasoning lives with whoever handled those deals.
So the answer depends on someone remembering which past agreement had comparable language, then finding the file. When that person is busy or gone, the team negotiates without its own precedent in front of it.
One agent reads the executed contracts, the playbook, and the prior positions together
We build a knowledge agent over your own record: the contracts you have actually signed, the playbook of standard and fallback positions, and the history of what you have accepted or rejected. Each source is shaped differently, so a single search box laid across them returns disconnected hits rather than a position. We structure each one and tile them into a single answer.
Ask what your position is on an indemnity cap, a governing-law clause, or an auto-renewal term, and it answers from what you have agreed to before, drawing the standard, the precedents, and the exceptions into one place.
Every answer cites the contract and clause behind it, and a lawyer makes the call
The agent answers with a citation to the contract and the clause it drew from, so the position is checkable against the executed language, not taken on faith. It takes knowledge in as well as out, so a newly negotiated position becomes part of the record the next question draws on, and the precedent does not go stale.
The agent surfaces what you have done before. The judgment on what to do this time stays with counsel.
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Tell us where your executed contracts and playbook live and we scope the agent, or email hello@mcintoshsystems.com.