Commercial and contracts counsel.
The master was negotiated once. Everything under it, SOWs, order forms, change orders and renewals, gets checked against it.
One MSA. Then a statement of work every month, forever.
Each one is short, each one is urgent, and each one can quietly override the master. Leela checks every SOW, order form and change order against the agreement it lives under and flags the deviation with both texts quoted.
What you send
Dear Leela
Check this change order against the executed MSA. The vendor's cover note calls the insurance changes housekeeping. I want to know if the indemnity still works the way the master says it does.
Best,
Leah
What comes back
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The finding
Not housekeeping. The contractor's indemnity is capped at $1M while yours stays uncapped, and the equal-insurance sentence that made the mutual indemnity enforceable is deleted.
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The redline
The cap struck and the mutuality restored as tracked changes, with the master's clause quoted in the margin.
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The note
The routine changes that are fine to accept, listed separately, so the reply to the vendor is short.
Who holds the positions?
Your playbook.
Drafted from the agreements you signed, or written in an email. Applied to every draft from either side of the table. A preference stated once, "net 30 for every customer under $100k", applies to the next order form and the fiftieth.
Also on the desk
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Our paper at volume
The standard agreement out to many customers. Most requested edits have standard answers. Exceptions escalate to you.
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Renewals
The auto-renewal date, the non-renewal window and the price cap, extracted at signature and asked about later. "When does the Kestrel price lock end?"
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Trade confirmations
Five confirmations under a master. Two cite the wrong index or a delivery point not on the list. Both flagged against the special provisions.
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The returned draft
Their tracked changes triaged three ways: accept as-is, push back, or needs your call.
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Targeted edits
Rename a defined term everywhere. Fold the agreed maintenance terms into the AMC clause as sub-clauses.
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The record
Every SOW filed under its master. Ask what the vendor committed to across all of them.
Send her the draft on your desk.
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