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NDA Review.
Every agreement, your playbook, in minutes.

Leah reviews every NDA against your playbook, generates redlines with rationale, or routes pre-approved templates when the terms align. The legal team stops being the NDA bottleneck.

10min
Average NDA cycle, down from 45
94%
Playbook compliance rate
5x
NDA volume per attorney
Trusted by legal, procurement, and contracting teams at
Alaska Airlines
Advantage Solutions
AGC Biologics
Agree Realty
Aliaxis
ANSA McAL
Beiersdorf
Blackhawk Network
BSH
Comerica Bank
Corebridge
Crawford & Company
Cushman & Wakefield
Daikin
Dawn Foods
Dubai Future Foundation
FNIH
Fullerton Fund
Greencross Vets
Hastings Deering
Hawaiian Airlines
KPMG
Karcher
Land O'Lakes
Li & Fung
LogicMonitor
Maxim Healthcare
Multi-Color Corporation
MDI / Novare
Merz Therapeutics
MicroStrategy
MUFG
Molecular Partners
Nations Roof
oOh! Media
Pepco Group
Philips
Pernod Ricard
Pleo
PowerSchool
PwC
Quanta Services
S&B Engineers
Sandoz
Sciensus
Sonepar
StarHub
Suburban Propane
tesa
Housing Bank
Vencora
Verint
Viva.com
Wood PLC
YETI
Alaska Airlines
Advantage Solutions
AGC Biologics
Agree Realty
Aliaxis
ANSA McAL
Beiersdorf
Blackhawk Network
BSH
Comerica Bank
Corebridge
Crawford & Company
Cushman & Wakefield
Daikin
Dawn Foods
Dubai Future Foundation
FNIH
Fullerton Fund
Greencross Vets
Hastings Deering
Hawaiian Airlines
KPMG
Karcher
Land O'Lakes
Li & Fung
LogicMonitor
Maxim Healthcare
Multi-Color Corporation
MDI / Novare
Merz Therapeutics
MicroStrategy
MUFG
Molecular Partners
Nations Roof
oOh! Media
Pepco Group
Philips
Pernod Ricard
Pleo
PowerSchool
PwC
Quanta Services
S&B Engineers
Sandoz
Sciensus
Sonepar
StarHub
Suburban Propane
tesa
Housing Bank
Vencora
Verint
Viva.com
Wood PLC
YETI
Alaska Airlines
Advantage Solutions
AGC Biologics
Agree Realty
Aliaxis
ANSA McAL
Beiersdorf
Blackhawk Network
BSH
Comerica Bank
Corebridge
Crawford & Company
Cushman & Wakefield
Daikin
Dawn Foods
Dubai Future Foundation
FNIH
Fullerton Fund
Greencross Vets
Hastings Deering
Hawaiian Airlines
KPMG
Karcher
Land O'Lakes
Li & Fung
LogicMonitor
Maxim Healthcare
Multi-Color Corporation
MDI / Novare
Merz Therapeutics
MicroStrategy
MUFG
Molecular Partners
Nations Roof
oOh! Media
Pepco Group
Philips
Pernod Ricard
Pleo
PowerSchool
PwC
Quanta Services
S&B Engineers
Sandoz
Sciensus
Sonepar
StarHub
Suburban Propane
tesa
Housing Bank
Vencora
Verint
Viva.com
Wood PLC
YETI

NDAs are the highest-volume, most repetitive work in legal. They should not be the bottleneck.

NDAs eat senior attorney time

The most expensive lawyers in the company spend hours each week reviewing the most repetitive agreements in the company. Liability cap, scope, term, jurisdiction. The same review, again and again, on work that should never reach the GC.

Inconsistent redlining across the team

Two attorneys reviewing the same NDA produce two different redlines. One pushes back on indemnity, the other lets it through. The playbook lives in everyone's head differently, and counterparties learn which lawyer to wait for.

Pre-approved templates ignored

Legal published a clean template months ago. Sales emails it to a counterparty, the counterparty sends back their paper, and review starts from scratch. The template that should have closed the loop never gets used in practice.

Bottleneck slows the sales cycle

An NDA that sits for three days delays the discovery call, the proposal, and ultimately the close. Sales leadership measures the legal team by how often deals stall in review. Legal never set out to be the bottleneck, but the queue says otherwise.

Counterparty terms slip through unnoticed

Buried in a 12-page mutual NDA, a counterparty inserts a five-year confidentiality tail or a non-solicit clause. Under volume pressure, even good attorneys miss it. The signed version commits the company to terms nobody surfaced.

No portfolio view of NDA exposure

Legal can produce any single NDA on request, but cannot answer the portfolio questions. How many active NDAs does the company hold? Which counterparties have unusual terms? Where are the long tails of confidentiality still running? The data is there, just not surfaced.

Your playbook, encoded once, applied every time

Leah ingests your NDA playbook, the liability caps you accept, the confidentiality scope you require, the jurisdiction preferences you push for, and the terms you reject. Every incoming NDA is analyzed against that playbook clause by clause, with confidence scores and rationale for each judgment.

Liability Cap VerificationLiability caps, indemnity carve-outs, and limitation language are checked against the thresholds you have approved. Anything outside your range is flagged with the specific deviation called out.
Confidentiality Scope ChecksDefinition of confidential information, term length, residual rights, and return-of-information obligations are validated against your standard scope, not just for presence but for substantive alignment.
Jurisdiction and Governing LawPreferred jurisdictions, dispute resolution mechanism, and forum selection clauses are verified against your hierarchy of acceptable choices, with fallback positions ready.
Playbook Compliance CheckLive
94%
Playbook Compliance
27
Clause Rules
98.1%
Detection Accuracy
Clause Categories Checked
Liability Caps
Pass
Confidentiality Scope
Pass
Term Length
Pass
Jurisdiction
Review
Non-Solicit
Flag

“We spent years writing playbooks that nobody used at the moment of review. Leah is the first thing that turned the playbook into the actual review, every time.”

General Counsel, Industrial Manufacturer

Five steps to autonomous NDA review

Leah integrates with the systems you already run. No new portal, no behavior change for the business. Value from the first week.

1

Connect Inbound Channels

Leah plugs into the inbound channels NDAs already arrive through. Email aliases, sales tools, the legal intake form, the CLM. No new portal, no behavior change for the rest of the business.

2

Apply Playbook

Every NDA is checked clause by clause against your playbook. Liability cap, scope, term, jurisdiction, indemnity, non-solicit, and any custom rules your team has codified.

3

Generate Redlines or Route Template

Where redlines are needed, they are generated with rationale and ready for attorney validation. Where the inbound aligns with your standard, your pre-approved template is routed instead.

4

Route for Approval

Routine NDAs queue for fast attorney sign-off. Non-standard agreements escalate to senior counsel or the GC, with a structured summary and recommended position.

5

Track Portfolio

Every signed NDA enters the portfolio. Terms structured, expirations tracked, cross-counterparty patterns surfaced. Legal gains a portfolio view of NDA exposure for the first time.

Got Questions? Get Answers.

Leah scores every NDA on risk and deviation count. Routine agreements clear autonomously after attorney validation. Non-standard agreements, the ones with unusual jurisdictions, long confidentiality tails, non-solicit clauses, or liability caps outside your range, are flagged with the specific deviations called out and routed to senior counsel or the GC for human judgment. Leah does not pretend to handle everything autonomously. She handles the routine cases well, so attorneys can focus on the genuinely exceptional ones.

Yes. Leah operates alongside your existing CLM, whether that is a major enterprise platform or a lighter system. Leah ingests NDAs from intake channels, runs the analysis and redlining, and writes the signed agreement and structured terms back to the CLM. The CLM remains the system of record, Leah is the intelligence layer on top of it. There is no rip-and-replace and no disruption to existing legal workflows.

Leah ingests your existing playbook documents, your standard NDA template, and your historical redlines. From those inputs she structures the rules, the liability caps you accept, the scope language you require, the term lengths you push for, and the terms you reject. The legal team reviews and refines the structured rules in plain language before activation. As deals progress and edge cases emerge, the playbook updates without code changes.

Across deployments, attorneys accept Leah's redlines without modification roughly nine times out of ten. The remaining tenth is typically a substantive judgment call rather than a generation error, the kind of decision an attorney would have made during their own review. Every redline carries the playbook rule it enforces and a confidence score, so the attorney is validating reasoning, not authoring from scratch.

Most legal teams see Leah autonomously routing NDAs within two weeks of playbook ingestion. The first week is playbook structuring and validation with the legal team. The second week is shadow mode, where Leah generates redlines for human review without sending. By the start of the third week, routine NDAs are clearing autonomously after attorney sign-off, and the time savings begin to compound.

Escalation is driven by configurable thresholds your legal team owns. Liability caps above a threshold, certain clause types like non-solicit or non-compete, confidentiality tails over a certain length, or unusual jurisdictions all trigger escalation. The escalation reaches the assigned senior attorney or GC with a one-page structured summary, the specific deviations called out, and a recommended position. Escalations come with context, not just a flag, so the senior reviewer makes the call quickly.

Ready to stop being
the NDA bottleneck?