— Legal & Contracts

Contract Comparison

Identifies every material change between two versions of an agreement and reads it commercially — what moved, in whose favour, and what must be accepted, pushed back or escalated before signature.

  • Legal & Contracts
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

2–3 hours → ~8 minutes

For one complete, review-ready pass

No coding required

Input
Previous version of an agreement
Output
Clause-by-clause register of material changes
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~2–3 hours per run

— USE CASES

What people use Contract Comparison for

Counterparty revisions under review

Identifies material changes in a counterparty’s revised draft and explains whose position each change favours. Gives advisers a clear view of the commercial exposure behind the wording.

Negotiation positions to resolve

Provides a change register suitable for a negotiation log, with clause-level differences and their implications. Highlights points that warrant acceptance, pushback or escalation.

Approval before contract signature

Produces a concise note on the decisions needed before signature, keeping attention on material changes rather than drafting noise.

Internal commercial risk review

Explains how revised terms affect obligations, risk allocation and negotiating leverage, giving commercial stakeholders a focused account of what the new draft exposes them to.

What it works from

  • Previous version of an agreement
  • Revised version of the same agreement
  • Commercial context and negotiating priorities, where available

What you get back

  • Clause-by-clause register of material changes
  • Commercial assessment of each change and the party it favours
  • Summary of exposure created by revised terms
  • Concise decision note covering acceptance, pushback and escalation

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Contract Comparison produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

What actually changed

Two versions of the contract portfolio are compared directly, separating the clauses that genuinely moved from the ones that only read differently.

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

Contract revisions can shift risk, obligations and negotiating leverage without making their significance obvious. Counterparty revisions under review is the typical trigger — identifies material changes in a counterparty’s revised draft and explains whose position each change favours. Gives advisers a clear view of the commercial exposure behind the wording. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 2–3 hours of manual work.

How this Skill produces it

Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; clause-by-clause register of material changes comes out, alongside commercial assessment of each change and the party it favours. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. In effect, 2–3 hours of senior time compresses into ~8 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran 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

Contract Comparison 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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