A General Counsel evaluating STIV Legal isn't asking whether a model can summarize a contract — most can. The actual questions are about exposure: what is this system allowed to see, what can it commit the company to without a lawyer's sign-off, and where does the liability sit if it gets something wrong.
It works from your playbook, not a generic sense of "good contracts"
STIV Legal reviews agreements against approved positions, fallback language, and escalation rules your team defines — the same mechanism covered in our walkthrough of what happens between upload and redline. That's a deliberate design choice for a General Counsel's purposes: the system isn't applying its own sense of what a solid indemnification clause looks like, it's applying yours, which means its output is auditable against a standard your team actually wrote down.
What never leaves the building without a lawyer
- No redline goes to a counterparty and no document gets executed without an authorized reviewer's sign-off — the approval gate applies uniformly, not case by case.
- Agreement types outside the defined playbook aren't reviewed at all, rather than improvised against.
- Access is scoped to Legal's connected documents specifically — a Sales or Support system, if you run one, doesn't get standing visibility into contract terms.
- Every review, redline, and decision lands in a timestamped, reversible audit trail — the same one described in our security architecture piece.
The math a General Counsel actually cares about
Single Division pricing at $1,500/mo isn't weighed against a paralegal's judgment — it's weighed against the hours a lawyer currently spends reading routine terms in an NDA or MSA that were probably fine, before getting to the two or three clauses that actually needed their attention. The system doesn't change who's accountable for what gets signed; it changes how much of the routine reading happens before a lawyer's attention is spent.
The honest limitation is the same one that applies everywhere else on this site: a playbook nobody has finished writing yet isn't a playbook STIV Legal can review against. The upfront work of defining approved positions and escalation rules is real, and it's also the same work that would make any first-pass review consistent — STIV Legal just applies it uniformly, every time, without needing to be reminded.