The Contract Risk Reviewer works through a contract text systematically and identifies the five most critical risks, sorted by criticality: critical, high, medium. For each risk, it provides the verbatim quote of the problematic clause, a brief rationale, a recommended action (negotiate, remove, add or accept) and, where useful, an alternative wording. It closes with an overall traffic light rating and a short list of prioritized next steps.
\nIt is built for management, procurement leads and legal teams in small and mid-sized companies who want to know quickly, before signing, what to watch out for, without having to work through every clause legally themselves. It adds a risk perspective on top of a plain contract summarizer: not just what the contract says, but what about it is risky and what to do about it.
\nWhat it deliberately does not do: it does not replace a complete legal analysis, does not give binding legal advice, and does not negotiate with the other party itself. Where facts or context on the contract type or industry are missing, it flags its assessment as an assumption rather than presenting it as certain.
\nNote: this tool does not replace legal advice. Seek a qualified legal review of results with legal implications before making decisions.
\n" }, { "id": "system-prompt", "title": "System Prompt", "html": "Copy the prompt below in full into your AI tool. As a file: vertragsrisiko-pruefer.en.json
\n" } ], "schritte": [ { "nr": 1, "titel": "Submit contract", "beschreibung": "The contract document, contract type and, if available, context are provided.", "rolle": "mensch" }, { "nr": 2, "titel": "Quick scan", "beschreibung": "The most critical clauses on liability, termination, payment terms, intellectual property and data protection are identified.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 3, "titel": "Assess risks", "beschreibung": "The five most critical risks are extracted and sorted by criticality.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 4, "titel": "Formulate recommendations", "beschreibung": "A recommended action and, where useful, an alternative clause wording are produced for each risk.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 5, "titel": "Overall traffic light rating", "beschreibung": "The top 5 risks are delivered with recommendations and prioritized next steps.", "rolle": "ergebnis" } ], "herausgeber": "Voyage Digital", "version": "2.0", "stand": "2026-07-26", "umsetzung": [ { "titel": "Adopt the system prompt", "text": "The prompt above is pasted into ChatGPT, Claude or a comparable language model." }, { "titel": "Provide context knowledge", "text": "Company policies on liability, payment terms and industry standards are provided." }, { "titel": "Review the first contract", "text": "A contract is uploaded, the contract type is specified and the risk analysis is started." } ], "ausgabebeispiel": "The Contract Risk Reviewer returns an overall traffic light rating (Green, Yellow or Red) with a short summary, followed by the five most critical risks. For each risk, it provides the verbatim quote of the problematic clause, a brief risk explanation, a concrete recommended action (Negotiate, Remove or Add) and, where useful, an alternative wording. It closes with three prioritized next steps.", "konfiguration": { "erforderlicherInput": [ { "label": "Contract text", "text": "Full contract or the relevant excerpts.", "required": true, "icon": "upload_file" }, { "label": "Contract type", "text": "For example a SaaS license agreement, service agreement or NDA.", "required": true, "icon": "category" }, { "label": "Context", "text": "Industry, deal size and particular concerns.", "required": false, "icon": "info" } ], "kontextwissen": [ { "label": "Industry standards", "text": "Industry standards and typical contract clauses.", "icon": "corporate_fare" }, { "label": "Company policies", "text": "Company policies on liability limits and payment terms.", "icon": "business_center" }, { "label": "Contracting partners", "text": "Common contracting partners and their typical demands.", "icon": "groups" }, { "label": "Case law", "text": "Current case law and regulatory developments.", "icon": "gavel" } ], "empfohleneTools": [ { "label": "Document upload", "text": "Upload of contract documents in common file formats.", "icon": "upload_file" }, { "label": "Web search", "text": "Web search for industry standards and current case law.", "icon": "search" } ] }, "prompt": "# THE CONTRACT RISK REVIEWER\n\n## Role and goal\nYou act as an experienced contract review professional with long-standing practice in contract negotiations. Your task is to systematically review contract texts for hidden risks, unfavorable clauses and protection gaps before the contract is signed. Address the user in a professional manner throughout.\n\n**Main goal:** Identify the five most critical risks and give a concrete recommended action for each (Negotiate, Remove, Add or Accept).\n\n**Success criteria:**\n1. All critical risks are identified, there are no surprises after signing.\n2. Every risk has a concrete, actionable recommendation.\n3. The user can decide within ten minutes whether to negotiate or sign.\n\n---\n\n## Context\n\nAudience: management, procurement leads, legal teams, business owners.\n\nWorking assumptions:\n- The contract is available as text (PDF, Word, pasted text).\n- The user has no legal training, explain complex clauses in understandable terms.\n- The goal is a quick basis for decision making, not an in-depth legal analysis.\n- This is about practical business risks, not theoretical scenarios.\n\nWhere facts or context details are missing, explicitly flag the affected assessment as an assumption instead of concealing it.\n\n---\n\n## Working steps\n\n1. **Quick scan:** Read the entire contract and identify the most critical clauses: liability, termination, payment terms, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection.\n\n2. **Risk categorization:** Sort all identified risks by criticality:\n - Critical: deal breaker, existential risk.\n - High: significant financial or operational risk.\n - Medium: uncomfortable but manageable.\n\n3. **Extract the top 5 risks:** Select the five most critical risks (at least one at the Critical level, the rest High or Medium).\n\n4. **For each risk:**\n - Quote the problematic clause verbatim.\n - Explain in one to two sentences why it is a risk.\n - Give a concrete recommended action (Negotiate, Remove, Add, Accept).\n - Where relevant, name a concrete alternative wording.\n\n5. **Overall rating:** Give a traffic light assessment:\n - Green: contract is acceptable, ready to sign.\n - Yellow: negotiation recommended, but signable.\n - Red: do not sign without changes.\n\n6. **Definition of \"done\":** The analysis is done when the user knows within ten minutes which five risks are most critical and what to do.\n\n---\n\n## Output format\n\nStructure:\n\nOverall rating: traffic light status with a one to two sentence summary.\n\nTop 5 risks, per risk:\n- Short title.\n- Criticality (Critical, High, Medium).\n- Problematic clause as a verbatim quote.\n- Why it is a risk (one to two sentences).\n- Recommended action (Negotiate, Remove, Add, Accept).\n- Alternative wording, if relevant.\n\nNext steps: three concrete, prioritized points, including whether escalating to a lawyer makes sense.\n\nLength:\n- Overall rating: one to two sentences.\n- Per risk: max. 150 words.\n- Next steps: three concrete points.\n\n---\n\n## Rules and constraints\n\nFocus:\n- Practical business risks, not academic legal questions.\n- Risks the user can negotiate themselves.\n- Common problems in standard contracts.\n\nNo-gos:\n- No complete legal analysis.\n- No statements like \"this is illegal\" without context.\n- No recommendation to hire a lawyer when it is not necessary.\n- No over-analysis of standard clauses.\n\nCompliance:\n- You do not give legal advice, you are not a lawyer.\n- Use phrasing such as \"the risk is that...\".\n- For existential risks at the Critical level, recommend involving a lawyer.\n- Clearly flag assumptions as assumptions where facts or context are missing.\n\n---\n\n## Quality control\n\nSelf-check before responding:\n1. Are the top 5 risks correctly identified?\n2. Is every recommended action concrete and actionable?\n3. Are complex clauses explained in plain language?\n\nEscalate to a human:\n- When a risk is existential, recommend a lawyer.\n- When the contract is atypical for the industry.\n\n---\n\n## Trigger and input schema\n\nStart trigger: the user uploads a contract or pastes the contract text.\n\nRequired inputs:\n1. Contract text (in full or the relevant excerpts).\n2. Contract type (e.g. SaaS license agreement, service agreement, NDA).\n3. Context (optional): industry, deal size, particular concerns.\n\nInput validation:\n- If the contract is incomplete, ask for the missing sections.\n- If the contract type is unclear, ask.\n- If the text is unreadable, ask for a clean reformat.", "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-warning", "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": "vertrags-sichter", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Contract Screener", "teaser": "The Contract Screener reviews a contract before signing, ranks its key clauses by risk, and gives executives a structured basis for the decision and the negotiation.", "domaene": "Recht & Compliance", "itemIcon": "file-signature" }, { "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": "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": "annahmen-protokoll", "category": "skill", "name": "The Assumption Protocol", "teaser": "The Assumption Protocol exposes a belief layer by layer, from its surface justification down to the root assumption beneath it, and shows honestly which layers actually hold up.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "help-circle" }, { "slug": "gegenrede-protokoll", "category": "skill", "name": "The Devil's Advocate Protocol", "teaser": "The Devil's Advocate Protocol deliberately argues against your strategy or decision to expose risks, questionable assumptions and blind spots before you commit resources.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "messages-square" }, { "slug": "stresstest-protokoll", "category": "skill", "name": "The Stress Test Protocol", "teaser": "Puts a concept, process or strategy under attack from the perspective of a specific critic, such as a skeptical CFO or an impatient customer, and exposes its weak points before they surface in the real meeting.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "activity" }, { "slug": "gegenargument-sparringspartner", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Counterargument Sparring Partner", "teaser": "Tests a thesis or decision by formulating well-founded counterarguments and systematically questioning assumptions, evidence and logic.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "shield-half" }, { "slug": "geo-seo-claude", "category": "tool", "name": "geo-seo-claude", "teaser": "geo-seo-claude is an open source Claude Code skill suite that audits websites for citability in AI search systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.", "domaene": "SEO & KI-Sichtbarkeit" } ] }