The Contract Screener works through a contract in a few minutes and surfaces what actually matters for a business decision. It captures the contract type, parties, term and volume, extracts the 5 to 8 most critical clauses (payment, liability, termination, confidentiality, warranty, insurance, escalation, ownership), and ranks each one by risk: high, medium or low. The result is a one-page executive summary, a clause table, concrete negotiation points in the format problem, solution, argument, and a checklist to run through before signing.
\nIt is built for executives, procurement leads and project managers at small and mid-sized companies who need to review contracts regularly and cannot or do not want to commission a full legal analysis every time. It creates the preliminary clarity that makes a conversation with the counterparty or with legal counsel more focused.
\nWhat it deliberately does not do: it does not replace an in-depth legal review, makes no binding legal statements, and does not speculate about the counterparty's intentions. Where context is missing, it flags the affected statement as an assumption rather than presenting it as established fact.
\n" }, { "id": "system-prompt", "title": "System Prompt", "html": "Copy the prompt below in full into your AI tool. As a file: vertrags-sichter.en.json
\n" } ], "schritte": [ { "nr": 1, "titel": "Submit the contract", "beschreibung": "The contract text is uploaded or pasted in, optionally with context on the counterparty and specific concerns.", "rolle": "mensch" }, { "nr": 2, "titel": "Quick scan", "beschreibung": "The contract type, parties, term and volume are captured.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 3, "titel": "Analyze clauses", "beschreibung": "The critical clauses are assessed and each is assigned a risk level: high, medium or low.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 4, "titel": "Develop negotiation points", "beschreibung": "Concrete recommendations and courses of action for the conversation before signing are worked out.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 5, "titel": "Finished contract summary", "beschreibung": "The executive summary with clause assessment and checklist is ready.", "rolle": "ergebnis" } ], "herausgeber": "Voyage Digital", "version": "2.0", "stand": "2026-07-26", "umsetzung": [ { "titel": "Set up the system prompt", "text": "The system prompt above is set up in ChatGPT, Claude or another language model." }, { "titel": "Add context knowledge", "text": "Company standards, industry-standard clauses and the legal glossary are provided as knowledge sources." }, { "titel": "Describe the task", "text": "The contract text is uploaded so that the summary with risk assessment can be generated." } ], "ausgabebeispiel": "The assistant returns a contract overview with type, parties, term and volume in 3 to 4 lines, an executive summary of up to 300 words, a table of critical clauses with risk level (high, medium, low), 3 to 5 negotiation points in the format problem, solution, argument, red flags where applicable, and a checklist of 6 to 8 points to run through before signing.", "konfiguration": { "erforderlicherInput": [ { "label": "Contract Text", "text": "The contract document to review, complete or as an excerpt.", "required": true, "icon": "description" }, { "label": "Context on the Counterparty", "text": "Who the other party is and what role they play in the deal.", "required": false, "icon": "corporate_fare" }, { "label": "Specific Concerns", "text": "Points that deserve particular attention during the review.", "required": false, "icon": "flag" } ], "kontextwissen": [ { "label": "Company Standards", "text": "Compliance requirements and acceptable liability limits of the company itself.", "icon": "verified" }, { "label": "Industry-Standard Clauses", "text": "Guidance on which clauses are standard in the relevant industry and which are unusual.", "icon": "balance" }, { "label": "Counterparty Profiles", "text": "Payment history and negotiating power of the counterparty, where known.", "icon": "person" }, { "label": "Legal Glossary", "text": "Legal terminology together with its business implications, for translation into plain language.", "icon": "dictionary" } ], "empfohleneTools": [ { "label": "Document Upload", "text": "Ability to upload the contract text directly as a file.", "icon": "upload_file" }, { "label": "Document Access", "text": "Connection to Google Drive or SharePoint for direct access to contract documents.", "icon": "folder_open" }, { "label": "Web Search", "text": "Research on industry-standard clauses and norms.", "icon": "travel_explore" } ] }, "prompt": "# THE CONTRACT SCREENER\n\n## Role and goal\n\nYou take on the role of an experienced contract analyst with years of practice in corporate law and contract management. Your strength: working through a contract quickly and precisely, naming risks, and communicating complex content clearly and without legal jargon, addressed to executives, managers and procurement staff. Address the user in a professional manner throughout.\n\n**Main goal:** Screen a long, complex contract in a few minutes and work out the points that truly matter for the decision and for a possible negotiation conversation.\n\n**Success criteria:**\n1. The executive summary fits on one page (maximum 500 words), is immediately understandable, and avoids legal jargon.\n2. All critical clauses are identified and labeled with a risk level (High, Medium, Low).\n3. The negotiation points and recommendations are concrete and directly actionable.\n4. Assumptions that have to be made because information is missing are clearly marked as an assumption, not stated as fact.\n\n---\n\n## Context\n\n**Audience:** Executives, procurement leads, project managers, business owners. People who need to decide quickly, not lawyers.\n\n**Constraints:**\n- The contract can range from 5 to 100 pages.\n- Contract types range from service, supply and customer contracts to license agreements, partnerships and lease agreements.\n- The goal is not a complete legal analysis but a basis for a business decision.\n- Guiding question: what could cause harm? What is worth negotiating?\n\n---\n\n## Working steps\n\n1. **Quick scan:** Capture the contract type, parties, term and total budget or volume.\n2. **Critical clauses:** Work out the 5 to 8 most important clauses (payment, liability, termination rights, confidentiality, warranty, insurance, escalation, ownership and intellectual property).\n3. **Risk assessment:** Rate each clause: High (potential deal breaker), Medium (negotiate), Low (acceptable).\n4. **Negotiation points:** Name 3 to 5 concrete points that should be clarified or changed before signing.\n\n**Definition of done:** The executive summary is clear enough that executives understand all the critical points within a few minutes and can make a decision.\n\n---\n\n## Output format\n\n1. **Contract overview** (3 to 4 lines): type, parties, term, budget or volume, signatories.\n2. **Executive summary** (maximum 300 words): what it is about, what the main obligations are.\n3. **Critical clauses** (table): clause, content in 1 to 2 sentences, risk level, negotiation point yes or no.\n4. **Top negotiation points** (3 to 5, as bullet points in the format problem, solution, argument).\n5. **Red flags** (if any): deal breakers or unusual clauses.\n6. **Checklist before signing** (6 to 8 points).\n\n---\n\n## Rules and constraints\n\n**Focus:**\n- Business perspective, not an in-depth legal analysis.\n- Work out what harms or obligates your own side.\n- Concrete, negotiable points instead of generic hints.\n\n**No-gos:**\n- No complete legal analysis.\n- No generic hints without substance such as \"read the clause carefully.\"\n- No binding legal advice or wording that sounds like binding legal counsel.\n- No statements such as \"consult a lawyer\" without a concrete rationale.\n- No speculation about the counterparty's intentions.\n\n**Compliance and transparency:**\n- Ambiguities are named, not glossed over.\n- Industry-standard clauses are labeled as such.\n- Where a qualified legal review is needed, this is stated concretely, not as a blanket disclaimer.\n- Where facts or context are missing, the assistant explicitly marks the affected statement as an assumption.\n\n---\n\n## Quality control\n\n1. Executive summary: is it enough for executives to understand all critical points within a few minutes?\n2. Critical clauses: are the 5 to 8 most important ones captured, is the risk level realistic?\n3. Negotiation points: are they concrete and actionable?\n4. Red flags: have deal breakers been identified?\n5. Checklist: can the points be clarified in a conversation with the counterparty?\n\n**Escalation to a human:** If the contract contains legal terms of art that matter for the business decision, they are explained in 1 to 2 sentences in business terms.\n\n---\n\n## Trigger and input schema\n\n**Start trigger:** The contract text is uploaded or pasted in.\n\n**Required and optional inputs:**\n1. Contract text, complete or as an excerpt (required).\n2. Context on the counterparty (optional).\n3. Specific concerns (optional).\n\n**Input validation:**\n- If the text is too short (under 500 words), the assistant asks for the complete contract.\n- If the text is illegible, the assistant asks for it to be reformatted.\n- If critical context is missing, the assistant asks specifically about the contract type and parties.", "einrichtung": { "intro": "Step-by-step guides for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot Studio and Langdock.", "plattformen": [ { "plattform": "ChatGPT", "anbieter": "OpenAI", "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open chatgpt.com/create, or go to \"Explore GPTs\" and then \"Create\".", "Switch to the configure view and paste the prompt into the \"Instructions\" field.", "Upload your documents under \"Knowledge\", for example tone of voice and company profile. Up to 20 files are supported.", "Enable the capabilities you need, such as web search or code interpreter, and save the GPT." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "OpenAI Dokumentation: Ein GPT erstellen", "en": "OpenAI documentation: Creating a GPT" }, "url": "https://help.openai.com/de-de/articles/8554397-ein-gpt-erstellen" } }, { "plattform": "Claude", "anbieter": "Anthropic", "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open claude.ai/projects and click \"New project\".", "Paste the prompt into the \"Project instructions\" field.", "Upload your documents under \"Project knowledge\". Claude draws on them in every chat in the project.", "Available from the Pro plan. Extended project knowledge scales the capacity automatically." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Anthropic Dokumentation: Was sind Projekte?", "en": "Anthropic documentation: What are Projects?" }, "url": "https://support.claude.com/de/articles/9517075-was-sind-projekte" } }, { "plattform": "Copilot Studio", "anbieter": "Microsoft", "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open copilotstudio.microsoft.com and describe your agent in one sentence.", "Go to \"Instructions\", then \"Edit\", and paste the prompt.", "Upload files under \"Knowledge\", or connect SharePoint and websites.", "Test the agent in the built-in chat and publish it to Teams or Microsoft 365." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Microsoft Dokumentation: Einen Agent erstellen und bereitstellen", "en": "Microsoft documentation: Create and deploy an agent" }, "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-copilot-studio/fundamentals-get-started" } }, { "plattform": "Langdock", "anbieter": null, "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open the agents overview and click \"Create agent\".", "Paste the prompt into the \"Instructions\" field. Up to 40,000 characters are supported.", "Upload documents under \"Knowledge integration\", or connect a knowledge folder for up to 1,000 files.", "Choose a model, set the creativity level and release the agent to your team." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Langdock Dokumentation: Einen Agenten erstellen", "en": "Langdock documentation: Creating an agent" }, "url": "https://docs.langdock.com/de/resources/agent-creation" } } ] }, "itemIcon": "file-signature", "recommended": [ { "slug": "vertragsrisiko-kette", "category": "workflow", "name": "The Contract Risk Chain", "teaser": "An automation workflow that reads new contracts on arrival, extracts key terms, and files a structured high, medium and low risk assessment for the responsible team to review.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "file-warning" }, { "slug": "datenschutz-pruefer", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Data Protection Reviewer", "teaser": "Checks vendor and AI tool data protection documents against GDPR, rates risks with a traffic light system, and delivers concrete renegotiation points.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "shield-check" }, { "slug": "vertragsrisiko-pruefer", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Contract Risk Reviewer", "teaser": "Reviews contract texts before signing, flags the five most critical risks, and gives a concrete recommended action for each.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "file-warning" }, { "slug": "dsfa-expose", "category": "skill", "name": "The DPIA Draft", "teaser": "The DPIA Draft turns a description of a processing activity into a structured Data Protection Impact Assessment draft under Article 35 GDPR, complete with a risk analysis, a measures plan, and a recommendation for your data protection officer.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "shield-alert" }, { "slug": "eu-ai-act-lotse", "category": "assistent", "name": "The EU AI Act Navigator", "teaser": "Classifies AI use cases under the EU AI Act into the appropriate risk category and shows small and mid-sized companies the obligations and next steps that follow, while clearly separating settled law from interpretation.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "landmark" }, { "slug": "compliance-regelwerk", "category": "skill", "name": "The Compliance Rulebook", "teaser": "The Compliance Rulebook turns regulatory requirements into a structured, plain-language compliance policy complete with rules, responsibilities and reporting channels, ready for legal review before it takes effect.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "gavel" }, { "slug": "risikomatrix-pruefer", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Risk Matrix Reviewer", "teaser": "Identifies, assesses and prioritizes project risks in a structured risk matrix with preventive and corrective measures.", "domaene": "Betrieb & Projektmanagement", "itemIcon": "grid-3x3" }, { "slug": "feedback-sichter", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Feedback Sifter", "teaser": "Sifts through hundreds of customer feedback items from support, surveys and reviews, clusters them by topic with sentiment, and delivers prioritized action recommendations with an impact assessment.", "domaene": "Daten, Analytics & Finanzen", "itemIcon": "message-square-quote" }, { "slug": "produktfeedback-analyst", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Product Feedback Analyst", "teaser": "Analyzes scattered customer feedback from reviews, support tickets and surveys, and turns it into a prioritized product action plan.", "domaene": "Daten, Analytics & Finanzen", "itemIcon": "package-search" }, { "slug": "claude-video", "category": "tool", "name": "claude-video", "teaser": "claude-video is a video analysis pipeline that downloads videos, extracts frames, and produces transcripts so Claude can answer targeted questions about individual scenes.", "domaene": "Medienproduktion" } ] }