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ClauseSpark Sentinel · Risk management

Know what's in every contract you've signed.

Most legal teams don't know what's in 80% of their executed contracts. Sentinel reads them, indexes them, and scores every clause against your playbook — so you find out about that uncapped indemnity before counsel is reading it in a deposition.

Risk dashboard · Q2 2026
Live
1,847
contracts
12
high risk
34
auto-renewals < 90d
Acme Corp MSA
Uncapped indemnity §7.2
High
Globex SaaS Agreement
IP assignment ambiguous
Medium
Initech NDA
Term: 5y (std: 3y)
Low
Stark DPA
Sub-processor list missing
High
$12.4M
Average exposure surfaced
In hidden indemnity, IP, and renewal risk per 1,000 contracts.
90 days
Earlier renewal warnings
Median lead time before auto-renew. Enough to actually re-negotiate.
4.1×
More risk caught vs. manual
Sentinel finds clauses that human review skipped on first pass.
< 24h
Time to index a new estate
Bring 5,000 PDFs. Get a complete risk register the next morning.
How Sentinel works

Drop in your contract estate. Get a risk register in 24 hours.

Sentinel ingests PDFs, .docx files, or pulls directly from your CLM. It classifies every clause, compares to your standards, and ranks the portfolio by exposure.

01

Ingest

Bulk upload, pull from your CLM, or forward email attachments. PDF, .docx, scanned images all work — Sentinel handles OCR.

02

Classify

Every clause is identified by type — limitation of liability, IP assignment, governing law — using a model trained on 2M+ commercial contracts.

03

Score

Each clause is compared to your playbook position. Deviation gets a 0–100 risk score with rationale.

04

Monitor

Renewals, milestones, and option dates land in a calendar. Alerts fire 90, 60, 30 days before.

Risk scoring

Every clause, scored against your playbook.

Sentinel ships with playbook templates for SaaS, services, employment, IP, and DPA contracts — or we extract one from your last 50 executed deals. Each clause gets a 0–100 risk score with the reason it deviated.

  • Pre-built playbooks for the most common contract types
  • Custom positions per geography, business unit, or deal size
  • "Why" rationale on every flag, not just a colour code
  • Threshold rules that escalate to GC for any deviation > 70
Preview · Risk scoring
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42
91
56
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Renewal & deadline tracking

Never miss a 90-day notice window again.

Sentinel reads dates, term lengths, and notice periods out of every contract — even when they're buried in an annex. Alerts fire on a schedule you control, into the channel your team actually uses.

  • Automatic detection of effective dates, terms, and notice windows
  • Customisable alert cadence — 90/60/30/7 days
  • Slack, email, or webhook delivery
  • Calendar export to Google or Outlook
Preview · Renewal & deadline tracking
84
38
67
95
49
Portfolio reporting

A single dashboard the GC can show the board.

Quantify legal's contribution in a language the board understands. Total exposure, risk by counterparty, risk by clause type, and how it's trending quarter-over-quarter.

  • Risk-weighted exposure across the entire estate
  • Drill from portfolio to single contract in two clicks
  • Heatmap by counterparty, region, and contract type
  • Export-ready PDF reports for board review
Preview · Portfolio reporting
28
82
64
71
58
Clause library

Search every clause you've ever signed.

Find that limitation-of-liability clause from the 2024 enterprise renegotiation. Or every contract where you accepted a most-favoured-nation. Semantic search over your entire history.

  • Natural-language queries across all contracts
  • Filter by counterparty, year, jurisdiction, status
  • Side-by-side clause comparison
  • Click-through to the source document with highlighted match
Preview · Clause library
33
88
45
76
52
Use cases

What customers actually use Sentinel for

Pre-acquisition due diligence

Index the target's entire contract estate over a weekend. Surface exposure before the LOI is signed.

Annual portfolio review

GC walks the board through risk-weighted exposure, trending quarter-over-quarter — with one click into any specific contract.

Compliance attestation

Prove every customer DPA contains the required sub-processor language. In minutes, not weeks.

Renegotiation prep

Before you re-up with a vendor, surface every concession you've given them across every contract.

M&A integration

New parent's playbook? Run the acquired entity's contracts against it, prioritise the worst gaps.

Insurance & audit

Your insurer wants a list of all uncapped indemnities by counterparty. Run the report. Email the PDF.

FAQ

Common questions

How accurate is the risk scoring?
Independently benchmarked at 94% precision on issue identification across 12 contract types. Every flag includes a rationale, so reviewers can verify in seconds.
Can I bring my own playbook?
Yes — and we strongly recommend it. Upload Word documents, fallback positions, or even a markdown file. We'll structure it. If you don't have one, we'll extract a draft from your last 50 executed contracts.
How does Sentinel handle scanned PDFs?
Built-in OCR. Even handwritten amendments get extracted. We test against the same scan-quality benchmark eDiscovery vendors use.
Where does my data live?
EU (Frankfurt) or US (Virginia) data residency. Encrypted at rest with AES-256. We never train on your data. Full details on the security page.
How long does setup take?
Most customers have their full estate indexed within 48 hours of upload. Playbook tuning takes another 1–2 weeks of iteration to dial in.
Does Sentinel integrate with our CLM?
Yes — Ironclad, LinkSquares, Concord, ContractWorks, and DocuSign CLM out of the box. Webhook-based ingest for everything else.
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What's hiding in your contract estate?

Send us 25 of your executed contracts. We'll index them, build a risk register, and walk you through what we found. No commitment, no pitch.

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