Write your positions down once.
A playbook is what you will and won't sign, in structured form: the thresholds that make a clause acceptable, the fallbacks you'll settle for, and the point at which it goes to a lawyer. Every review is scored against it, which is why Vern's answers are yours and not a market average.
A position is more than a red line.
It carries what you want, what you'll accept instead, when to escalate, and how to argue it.
Aggregate liability capped at no more than 2× annual fees; indirect and consequential losses excluded for both parties.
Lead with mutuality rather than cap size, clients accept 2× readily when exclusions cut both ways. Cite our insurance limit (£2m) only if pressed.
Triggered in 9 of the last 24 reviews. Suggested wording accepted 78% of the time.
Nobody writes 38 positions from a blank page.
So don't. Start from the UK template and edit what's wrong, or hand Vern five to ten contracts you've already signed and let it work out what your positions actually are.
A 38-position client-terms playbook and a general commercial set, both written against UK law. Sensible defaults you can disagree with.
Upload five to ten signed contracts. Vern drafts positions from what you actually agreed to, and tells you where your own history contradicts itself. Reading precedents doesn't consume credits.
Consistent across all 7 precedents. Two included 4% late-payment interest, added as an acceptable condition.
4 of 7 capped at 2×. But you signed uncapped liability twice (Calloway, Osier), drafted the 2× position anyway; confirm that’s the standard you want enforced.
Ranges from 6-month client-only to 12-month 50-mile across precedents. Drafted the middle, review before publishing.
Change your mind without rewriting history.
Every publish writes an immutable version, and every review records the exact version it was scored against. Tighten your liability position in July and the review you ran in May still says what it said, with the reasoning that was true at the time.
Which matters more than it sounds: if you can't tell whether a verdict changed because the contract changed or because you changed, the audit trail is worthless.
Written once. Enforced everywhere.
There is no second copy of your positions living inside the Word add-in or the email lane. Every surface reads the same published version.
Your fallback tiers become the wordings you cycle through, and drafting writes a contract that already holds them.
The chat fetches the relevant position with a tool before answering, so it argues your line rather than a general one.
A contract forwarded by a colleague who’s never logged in is still scored against the same published version.
Send us five contracts you've signed.
We'll draft your playbook from them on the call, and you'll see where your own paperwork has been disagreeing with itself.