Forty pages, someone else's wording. Why take the risk?
A contract you didn't draft, in language you didn't choose, with a deal waiting on it, and the alternative priced by the hour. We built Vern for the person in that position: no legal team behind them, a decision to make today, and no appetite for guessing.
One product, one job. Built and run by AssurePath Ltd, registered in England, company number 16741039.
The advice was never the expensive part. The reading was.
Below a certain size there's no in-house counsel, and outside counsel is priced for disputes rather than for the fifth supplier agreement this month. So the paper gets skimmed, or signed on trust, and the risk sits there unread.
A generic risk summary tells you a clause is unusual. It can't tell you whether it's unacceptable to you. That only works if your own positions are written down first, which is why the playbook comes before the AI, not after it.
Build for someone who isn't a lawyer and the decisions make themselves: plain language, two separate scores, intake by forwarded email, a price per review rather than per seat, and a human available on the one deal that warrants it.
Six things we've decided not to do.
Each of these costs us something. They're on the site because we'd rather be held to them.
A published tier means someone pays for volume they don't use or gets cut off mid-negotiation. We'd rather quote the customer in front of us and be asked why.
You're a business, not a subscription. We invoice directly, against a PO where you need one and on the payment terms in your contract, so nothing auto-renews behind your back and finance sees the number before it's charged.
A parse error, a timeout, a re-run after a model upgrade, none of it consumes a credit. If the answer didn't reach you, it wasn't a review.
Not us, not the model providers we call. It's a term in our contracts with them rather than a setting we could quietly change.
If you need a system of record, buy a CLM. If one deal needs judgement rather than a score, escalate it to a qualified human from inside Vern, and if it's contentious enough, get your own solicitor instead. Our comparison page says all of that in writing, including the rows where we lose.
Security questionnaires, playbook changes and awkward questions are answered by the people who built the thing. At our size that's a feature, and we'll say so honestly when it stops being one.
“I have saved so much time in my day, from triage to redline I can turn things around so much quicker.”
Vern is a contract review tool. It doesn't provide legal advice, and we say that on every page rather than in a footer nobody reads.
Independent professionals who take one escalated deal at a time, matched to the contract type. They see that deal and nothing else in your account.
How expert review works →Come and be sceptical at us.
Thirty minutes, an anonymised contract from your sector, and whichever of these claims you'd most like tested.