The Six Scores, Explained: How to Read an AI Contract Review

Upload a contract for review and you get six numbers out of ten, a sentence explaining each, and a count of the concrete weaknesses found. A number is only useful if you know what it is measuring, so here is what each one is looking at, and what a low score in it actually costs you.

The whole reading is free and needs no account — all six scores and all six explanations.

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1. Clarity and Completeness

Asks: can two people reading this in good faith reach different conclusions about what was agreed?

Low scores come from undefined terms used as if they were defined (“Confidential Information”, “Services”, “reasonable”), obligations with no deadline, payment terms with no date, and placeholders left unfilled.

What it costs: ambiguity is resolved later, expensively, and usually against whoever drafted it. This is the most common weak score and the cheapest to fix — most of it is filling in blanks.

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2. Risk Protection

Asks: if this goes wrong, what protects you?

Looks for liability caps, indemnities, insurance requirements, warranties, limitation of consequential loss, and remedies for breach — and for whether they run in your favour, the other side’s, or both.

What it costs: an uncapped liability in a $2,000 contract is a $2,000 contract with unlimited downside. This is the score to check when the counterparty is much larger than you.

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3. Legal Enforceability

Asks: would this hold up?

Governing law and jurisdiction, proper execution, the elements that make an agreement binding, and clauses drafted so broadly that a court is likely to cut them down — an unlimited-duration non-compete over an entire industry, for instance.

What it costs: an unenforceable clause is not a weak clause, it is no clause. People rely on protection they do not have.

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4. Balance of Terms

Asks: do the obligations run both ways?

This is the one to read first before you sign someone else’s template. It counts one-sided termination rights, obligations that bind only you, notice periods that differ by party, and confidentiality that flows in one direction.

What it costs: nothing, if you know. Plenty of contracts are legitimately one-sided — an NDA where only one party is disclosing should be. A low score here is not automatically a problem; it is a fact you should have noticed before signing, not after.

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5. Structural Integrity

Asks: is the document internally consistent?

Cross-references pointing at clauses that do not exist, defined terms used before they are defined or never defined at all, numbering that skips, schedules referred to but not attached, two clauses that contradict each other.

What it costs: this is the score that catches copy-paste damage. Most contracts are assembled from other contracts, and the seams are exactly where this kind of error lives.

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6. Overall Risk Exposure

Asks: taking it as a whole, what are you actually exposed to?

Not an average of the other five — a judgement about the document as a working agreement. A contract can score reasonably on every individual criterion and still leave you exposed because of how the parts combine.

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How to actually use them

Read the lowest two, ignore the rest for now. Six scores is a lot to act on. The two weakest are where the value is, and the explanation under each says what specifically is missing.

Look at the issue count. Alongside the scores you get a number: the concrete weaknesses a rewrite would fix. Ten issues in a two-page NDA is a template that was never adapted. Two issues in a forty-page agreement is a document someone took seriously.

Do not read a 6/10 as a pass. These are not exam marks. A 6 means “works, with identifiable gaps” — and the gaps are listed.

Compare, do not just measure. Run the counterparty’s template and your own through the same six criteria. The difference tells you more than either number alone.

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What the scores do not do

They do not tell you whether the deal is a good deal. Price, scope and whether you want to work with these people are commercial questions, and no review of the document answers them.

They are not legal advice, and they do not replace a lawyer on anything material — an acquisition, a lease you will be in for ten years, litigation. What they do is tell you which parts of the document are worth a lawyer’s hour, which is a genuinely different and much cheaper question.

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Then the rewrite

The scores are the reading. The other half is the rewrite: the whole document rewritten in its own language with the missing clauses written in, and a change log saying what was added, what was clarified, and where risk was reduced.

That is what an account is for, and the first one is free.

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Next step: upload a contract and read all six → — free, no account, about half a minute.