Assessing a proposed agreement
Provides a consolidated view of pricing, payment terms and contractual cost exposure, helping advisers distinguish an attractive headline offer from a sound commercial deal.
— Legal & Contracts
Commercial Terms Review
Strips the economics out of an agreement — pricing, payment terms, indexation, commitments and pass-throughs — and assesses what each does to cash and margin across the full term.
- Legal & Contracts
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
half a day → ~15 minutes
For one complete, review-ready pass
No coding required
- Input
- Draft or executed commercial agreements
- Output
- Consolidated inventory of economic provisions
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~half a day per run
— USE CASES
What people use Commercial Terms Review for
Preparing for commercial negotiations
Produces a negotiation list ranked by financial value, with the cash and margin implications behind each priority.
Reviewing longer term exposure
Highlights indexation, price reviews, true-ups and other provisions whose impact emerges later in the contract term, making deferred obligations visible.
Testing volume and cost commitments
Explains how minimum commitments, volume tiers, currency provisions and pass-through costs shape the agreement’s economics as demand or costs change.
What it works from
- Draft or executed commercial agreements
- Pricing schedules and rate cards
- Payment terms and service credit schedules
- Indexation and price review provisions or schedules covering minimum commitments, true-ups, volume tiers, currency and pass-through costs
What you get back
- Consolidated inventory of economic provisions
- Assessment of cash and margin effects across the contract term
- Analysis of deferred and contingent financial obligations
- Negotiation priorities ranked by financial value
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Commercial Terms Review produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Contracts and agreements pulled into one schema
Every clause is captured in the same field structure, so records drawn from different documents and sources stay comparable.
Composed as work product
Findings on the contract portfolio are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a clause.
Delivered as a working table
The clauses land as a clean table you can sort, filter or drop straight into the deliverable.
Why this is expensive by hand
Commercial agreements spread their economics across clauses, schedules and rate cards, making the full financial exposure difficult to judge. In practice it shows up as assessing a proposed agreement: provides a consolidated view of pricing, payment terms and contractual cost exposure, helping advisers distinguish an attractive headline offer from a sound commercial deal. It is the kind of work that decides whether a recommendation survives scrutiny — and the kind that quietly eats half a day of senior time whenever it comes round.
How this Skill produces it
As a Skill, the work is already sequenced. You bring the evidence, and the run produces consolidated inventory of economic provisions plus assessment of cash and margin effects across the contract term. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. Net effect: half a day down to ~15 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- In-house legal and contract managers
- Commercial and procurement leads reviewing terms
- Operations teams handling contract volume
- Consultants advising on contractual risk
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Commercial Terms Review exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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