How much is contract risk costing you already?
Most businesses do one of two things: send every contract to a solicitor, or skip the review and hope. One is expensive in fees, the other in the clause nobody read. Set your split between the three and the arithmetic shows which pile is costing you most.
Most teams do the first one and call it the second.
Nobody sends everything to a solicitor.
So the honest model has three piles: the ones you pay for, the ones you read yourself, and the ones that get signed anyway.
The ones that get a proper external review.
Someone senior reads it themselves. Whatever is left over gets signed unread.
UK average is £300 to £500 for a standard commercial review.
Include the chasing, the second opinion and the waiting.
Fully loaded, whoever actually does the reading.
The genuinely hard ones. Everything else is handled on the review Vern produces.
We assume reading a Vern review and sending the redline takes fifteen minutes per contract, and that every contract gets reviewed rather than a third of them slipping through.
If your split has most contracts going unread, the fee comparison understates the case badly. That pile is where the expensive clause lives.
A calculator is an argument, not evidence.
Every vendor's ROI tool is built to produce a large number, ours included. The inputs are yours, so the arithmetic is honest, but the assumption that we replace external counsel entirely is not one we would make for you.
The realistic version: we take the routine paper, your solicitor keeps the deals that deserve them, and the spend moves rather than disappearing.
On the call we run an anonymised contract from your sector against positions we write live. You judge the output against what you know happened, which is worth more than any figure on this page.
Now get the number that actually matters.
Tell us your volume and shape, and the package price comes back in writing within two working days.