ScopeWise for legal teams
Not every SOW that lands in the legal queue needs a full attorney review. Some are boilerplate variations of a template you've approved a dozen times; a few have real exposure -- an uncapped liability clause, undefined IP ownership, termination language with no cure period. The problem is that from the outside, both look the same: a document waiting in the queue.
The triage problem
Legal and legal-ops teams are usually the bottleneck in a contract-signing process, not because attorneys are slow but because every document gets the same treatment regardless of actual risk. A low-risk vendor SOW and a high-exposure master services agreement both sit in the same review queue, and without reading each one first there's no way to prioritize.
ScopeWise doesn't replace that judgment. It reads every document first, flags exactly what needs attorney eyes and why, and lets the rest move through faster -- so the queue is sorted by actual risk instead of first-in-first-out.
What the Legal agent checks
A dedicated Legal reviewer -- distinct from the Commercial and PMO agents, which cover pricing and governance separately -- extracts and flags:
Liability & indemnification
Whether a limitation-of-liability clause and cap exist, and whether indemnification is defined -- which party covers whom, for what.
IP ownership
Who owns the work product, whether background IP and third-party/open-source obligations are addressed, or left undefined.
Termination & warranty
Whether termination-for-cause has a defined cure period, what happens to in-progress work on termination, and whether a warranty clause or disclaimer exists at all.
Ambiguous legal language
Phrases like "reasonable efforts" or "as applicable" are flagged explicitly as findings, not silently accepted -- exactly the kind of language a fast read tends to skim past.
Every finding is traceable
Findings are tied back to the exact clause they came from and rated by severity, so an attorney reviewing a flagged document isn't starting from scratch -- they're starting from a specific list of what to look at and why. On revised versions, ScopeWise re-checks prior findings against the new draft automatically, so a "fixed" clause is verified, not just marked done by whoever uploaded it.
See how ScopeWise handles SOW review.