Contract negotiation fallback simulator
Connect approved legal options to business consequences.
- For
- In-house commercial counsel
- Solves
- Teams cannot explain practical tradeoffs between approved clause fallbacks.
- Delivers
- Counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack
- Built in
- about 5 weeks of creation time, MVP in 6 days
- Investment
- $28,000 for the MVP, $50,000 for the full product
- Run it
- Inside your business, or as part of your offer to clients
What it does
Connect approved legal options to business consequences.
- Compare allowed clause combinations.
- Model supplied operational effects.
- Prepare negotiation questions.
- Compare the reviewed result with the recorded baseline and value assumptions.
- Capture corrections and named-owner approval before consequential use.
- Export a versioned counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack with source references and unresolved questions.
What goes in, what comes out
- Counsel-approved playbooks
- Business scenarios
AI drafts, people review. Interactive practice or facilitated workshop platform.
- Counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack
How it works
The workflow
- InStart with
Counsel-approved playbooks and business scenarios
- 1
Confirm the buyer's problem and scope
- 2
Collect counsel-approved playbooks and business scenarios
- 3
Then follow this sequence: 1
- OutFinish with
Counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack
AI does the heavy lifting, people stay in charge
Use AI to interpret permitted inputs, suggest structured mappings and generate candidate outputs for the three stated task modules. Use deterministic code for arithmetic, schema validation, hard constraints and reproducible tests. Review source-linked explanations and uncertainty before accepting results. No unapproved legal recommendations; qualified counsel controls outcomes. A model suggestion is never a verified fact, professional decision or authorization to act.
What your team sees
Primary screens: Scenario designer, Interactive replay, Evidence and debrief. Use a scenario catalog with clear goals and difficulty settings. The main session area supports text, optional voice and visible context. Follow it with a replay or decision map, annotated feedback and a next-practice plan. Facilitators can author scenarios and review participant-selected sessions. Make the task-specific outcome counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack visible beside its evidence, review state and value baseline.
Accounts and administration
Participant-controlled session sharing, scenario versions, facilitator tools, replay history, rubric calibration, practice goals and exportable feedback. Add organization access boundaries, named reviewers, usage caps, data retention controls, export logs and explicit approval for external actions.
Integrations and data access
Authorized matter files, firm templates and approved legal knowledge collections. Learning portals, calendar scheduling and authorized session exports. Make recording, sharing and retention controls explicit in the product. Start with authorized file exchange. Validate current provider access, usage rights and schema behavior before promising a connector.
How we build it
We build with our own AI software development factory, so most implementations take days to a few weeks of creation time, not months. You see working software at every step, and exact timing depends on availability.
- 1
Scoping call
Day 1Thirty minutes on your process, your data and how you want to run it: for your own team, or for your clients. You get a fixed scope and price for the MVP.
- 2
MVP
6 daysOne buyer segment, one recurring use case; first modules: compare allowed clause combinations; model supplied operational effects. Manual review in the loop. Built by our AI software factory.
- 3
Paid pilot
7 daysAccounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.
- 4
Full product
3 weeksSelf-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.
- 5
Run and improve
MonthlyWe host, monitor and improve it for a fixed monthly fee, or hand it over to your team. How the retainer works.
Why we start with an MVP
An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the smallest version that your users can actually work with. It is not a cheap version of the full solution. It is a test, built to answer the questions that decide whether the rest is worth building.
- Pick the riskiest assumption. Here: will in-house commercial counsel use it to solve "teams cannot explain practical tradeoffs between approved clause fallbacks"?
- Build only what tests it. One team, one use case, a few core modules. People do the rest by hand for now.
- Run a paid pilot. Agree quality and outcome thresholds before the pilot using this measure: Negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost.
- Measure, then decide. Track negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost; accepted-output rate; material error rate; reviewer correction time; actual repeat purchase. Then expand, change course or stop, with evidence instead of opinions.
MVP scope for this solution. Pilot scope: No unapproved legal recommendations; qualified counsel controls outcomes. Implement one approved input format, a bounded representative case set and the first two task modules: compare allowed clause combinations; model supplied operational effects. Support the third module with operator review: prepare negotiation questions. Include source references, corrections, basic organization access, approval states, export and value measurement. Use managed operator assistance for unresolved exceptions. The cost estimate covers this narrow prototype, not unrestricted multi-tenant scale, complex production integrations, specialist certification or physical operations.
After the MVP. Once paid pilots prove usefulness, automate repeatable reviewed steps and add one verified source integration. Expand supported inputs and case volume only after new evaluation cases pass. Build reusable customer configurations and recurring value reports around counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack. Retain the explicit scope boundary: No unapproved legal recommendations; qualified counsel controls outcomes.
What the build depends on. Scenario state management, coherent dialogue, explicit rubrics, session replay and reviewer feedback. Voice interaction adds latency and audio QA requirements. Obtain representative authorized cases, baseline measurements, qualified reviewers and a buyer-side decision owner. Specific limitation: No unapproved legal recommendations; qualified counsel controls outcomes.
Investment
A planning range to start the conversation, not a quote. You pay per phase, so you can stop after the MVP.
- Phase 1
MVP
One buyer segment, one recurring use case; first modules: compare allowed clause combinations; model supplied operational effects. Manual review in the loop.
- Phase 2
Paid pilot
Accounts, roles, review states, audit trail and the first integration, hardened for two to three paying pilot customers.
- Phase 3
Full product
Self-serve onboarding, billing, monitoring and the wider integration set.
Indicative total, MVP to full product$50,000about 5 weeks of creation time · start with the MVP from $28,000
Running costs per month
A rough indication of monthly hosting and AI model costs once it is live, not tested. Real costs depend on usage, file sizes and the models chosen.
| Stage | Hosting and infrastructure | AI usage | Total per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP and paid pilotabout 3 customers | $50–$100 | $50–$110 | $100–$210 |
| Full productabout 50 customers | $190–$380 | $420–$840 | $610–$1,220 |
Run it or resell it
For your own team
In-house commercial counsel run it inside the business: counsel-approved playbooks and business scenarios in, counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack out, reviewed by your people.
As part of your offer
Agencies, consultancies and software companies can offer it to their own clients under their brand. We build and maintain it; you sell and deliver it.
Your brand, or this one
Run it under your own brand, or start from this concept style.
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- Headings
- Playfair Display
- Text
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- Voice
- Precise, measured, defensible
Selling it to your own clients: the go-to-market playbook
Pricing to test
Test USD 300-1,500 for a facilitated team pilot, or USD 20-80 per participant monthly for self-serve practice with limited usage. Bespoke workshops and expert coaching are separately scoped. Pricing is hypothetical. Package the initial sale as one bounded counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack. Recurring fees must specify volume, review depth and integration support. For exchanges, test a disclosed coordination or successful-service fee rather than holding customer funds. Reprice only after measuring real delivery labor; platform-build cost is separate from a commercial pilot fee.
Message to test
Connect approved legal options to business consequences. Demonstrate a concrete counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack using the buyer's approved example and show the baseline, corrections and actual delivery effort.
Where to find buyers
In-house commercial counsel professional communities; specialist consultants serving this buyer; permissioned partner introductions; practical demonstrations at relevant trade or practitioner events.
Lead magnet
A reviewed sample counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack from a small authorized input set, with a transparent calculation of negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost and no promised savings.
The first 30 days
- Week 1: interview five in-house commercial counsel and inspect a recent example of teams cannot explain practical tradeoffs between approved clause fallbacks.
- Week 2: prepare a consented or synthetic demonstration of the three task modules.
- Week 3: seek one bounded paid pilot with agreed baseline and acceptance criteria.
- Week 4: measure negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost, reviewer effort and repeat-purchase interest. This is a demand-validation plan, not a thirty-day full-product delivery promise.
Paid pilot
Agree quality and outcome thresholds before the pilot using this measure: Negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost. Continue only if the buyer accepts the actual output, the intended job outcome improves without unacceptable errors, and measured delivery cost fits willingness to pay. Revise or stop if access is unavailable, qualified review cannot be provided, or apparent savings disappear after corrections and support. Use held-out cases when comparing model quality; use a properly reviewed comparison design before making causal claims. Record missing cases and negative results alongside successful outputs.
Success metrics
Negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost; accepted-output rate; material error rate; reviewer correction time; actual repeat purchase.
Retention and expansion
Repeat the workflow when the buyer again needs counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack. Retain permissioned settings and reviewed examples, report realized value honestly, and sell increased volume or adjacent approved workflows only after contribution margin and quality remain acceptable.
Why clients would pick it
Realistic domain scenarios, qualified facilitator relationships and reviewed examples of useful feedback and successful practice. Build a permissioned library of representative task cases, reviewer corrections and verified operating constraints for in-house commercial counsel. Repeatable delivery and useful integrations matter more than access to a base model.
Alternatives and positioning
Human coaching, workshops, static courses, roleplay with colleagues and general chat tools. Compare this product with the buyer's present method on negotiation preparation hours and avoidable rework minus expert review cost. Offer a bounded paid workflow instead of claiming broad autonomous expertise. Market uniqueness and competitor coverage are not verified.
Main delivery costs
Scenario design, voice processing if used, model interaction length, facilitator review, rubric calibration and learner support. Additional initial validation requires representative authorized sample preparation, buyer interviews, qualified domain review and bounded validation of counsel-reviewed fallback decision pack. Track cost per accepted output, including correction work, unsuccessful cases and support.
Safeguards
Preserve matter confidentiality, access boundaries and original evidence. Qualified professionals review legal interpretations and final client documents. No unapproved legal recommendations; qualified counsel controls outcomes. Keep all consequential actions under authorized human control and do not fabricate missing inputs, permissions, professional judgments or market evidence.