Two-dimensional scoring THE SIGNATURE

Two questions. Answered separately.

Does this clause match our position? And would it actually hold up in court? Every other tool answers one of those and calls it risk. Vern answers both, independently, in a single pass, and the cases where they disagree are the ones worth your afternoon.

ONE CLAUSE · TWO VERDICTS
8.1 Limitation of liability
PLAYBOOK
12
Escalate
VERN SCORE
Weak
under UK law
Breaches your red line, and fails on its own terms anyway.
Playbook Score
0–100, three bands
Vern Score
Strong · Caution · Weak
Produced
In one pass
Grammar
Filled vs outlined
PLAYBOOK SCORE
88 Accept

Does this match our position?

Measured against your playbook and nothing else. A number out of a hundred and a band, Accept, Negotiate or Escalate, so it's obvious whether this is a signature, a conversation or a phone call to a solicitor.

88 Accept 54 Negotiate 12 Escalate
ALWAYS A FILLED PILL · NEVER VARIED
VERN SCORE
Strong

Would it hold up in the real world?

Enforceability and commercial viability under UK contract law, judged without reference to your playbook at all. A clause you're happy with can still be worthless, and that is not something your own positions can tell you.

Strong Caution Weak
ALWAYS AN OUTLINED PILL · NEVER VARIED
Nine outcomes · click any cell

One score gives you three answers. Two give you nine.

A single risk rating collapses two different problems into one colour. Here is every combination, with a real clause in each, the diagonal is where the two agree, and the corners are where the money is.

Accept
Negotiate
Escalate
Strong
Caution
Weak
8.1 Limitation of liability 12 Escalate Weak
AS DRAFTED

Liability for indirect and consequential losses is uncapped, with an exclusion that purports to remove all liability for such losses without limitation as to amount.

WHY THEY AGREE

Your playbook requires a cap at two times annual fees, so this breaches it outright. Separately, a blanket exclusion with no cap is the kind of term a court reads against whoever drafted it, so it protects nobody.

WHAT TO DO

Escalate, then send W1: a mutual cap at twice the fees paid in the preceding twelve months. Unlimited exposure on a £48k engagement, sitting outside your £2m aggregate cover.

PLAYBOOK L-04 BREACHED · ACCEPTED 78% OF THE TIME
The corners

Two of those nine cells are why we built this.

A single risk rating cannot express either of them. Both are common, and both cost real money.

88 Accept Weak

Protection that isn't protection

The clause does exactly what you asked for, so your playbook waves it through, and it would collapse the first time you tried to rely on it. Perpetual confidentiality, fifty-mile covenants, penalty-shaped liquidated damages.

You only find out when you need it, which is the worst possible moment. This is the cell a playbook-only tool is structurally incapable of seeing.

12 Escalate Strong

Nothing legally wrong with it

Well drafted, enforceable, and completely one-sided. A generic legal-AI tool has nothing to flag because nothing about it is unusual, it's simply a good clause for them.

Only your own positions make this a problem. This is the cell an enforceability-only tool cannot see.

How they're produced

One pass. Two answers. Not two reviews.

Both scores come out of the same scoring stage, per clause. Running the contract twice would double the cost and let the two answers drift apart; producing them together keeps them consistent and lets Vern reason about the pair, which is what the cross-clause pass then builds on.

Scores come back through an enforced schema rather than text we hope to parse, so a malformed answer fails loudly instead of quietly becoming a wrong number.

See the full pipeline →

Scored against your playbook version · UK law
Model calls per clause 1
Output enforced JSON schema
First verdicts on screen 4s
Both scores, all 18 clauses 2m 47s
TRIAGE STREAMS FIRST · THE DEEP PASS UPGRADES IN PLACE
The grammar

Filled is yours. Outlined is the law.

The two pills look different everywhere they appear, so you never have to ask which number you're reading. It doesn't vary by screen, by density, or by anyone's preference.

WHERE IT APPEARSPLAYBOOKVERN
A clause row in the findings list 54 Negotiate Strong
The 368px Word pane, where space is tight 54 number only, still filled Strong
A round diff, showing movement 54 → 71 Strong
The whole contract, at the top of a review 62 Negotiate Caution
SCORES ARE ALWAYS SET IN MONO · SO A NUMBER NEVER READS AS PROSE

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