What’s in a Review template
A template is built in three nested layers — Topics at the top, Positions inside each Topic, Rules inside each Position.| Layer | What it is |
|---|---|
| Topic | A subject of negotiation. Working hours, Place of work, Termination. A template usually has a handful, one for each clause you actually negotiate. |
| Position | Inside a Topic, a Position is the wording you’d sign for it. Every Topic has an Acceptable position (the clause you’d love to see), optional Fallback positions (clauses you can live with if you have to), and a Not acceptable position (your red line). |
| Rule | Inside a Position, a Rule is a specific, testable condition. A Position is made up of one or more Rules; together, the Rules define what the Position means. |
- Weekly working time does not exceed 40 hours.
- The agreed gross monthly salary compensates for no more than 10 overtime hours per month.
Two ways to start a Review
The most common path is from a template: you’ve built a template (yours or your firm’s) for the kind of contract you’re reviewing. Open the Review section in your project, pick the template, attach the document, and run. The fastest path is from Chat: drop the contract into a chat and ask Libra to “review this against our standard NDA terms”. Libra recognises the intent, runs a Review using the matching template, and shows the result inline. See Reviews from chat.What you get back
A Review result is structured, not narrative. Topics across the top, with a risk badge each. Click any Topic to expand its Positions and Rules.| Element | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Topic risk badge | A summary level (No risk, Medium risk, or High risk) for the whole topic. |
| Position match | For each Position, how many of its rules the contract satisfies (e.g. “Full match 2/2”, “Partial match 1/3”, “No match 0/2”). |
| Rule reasoning | For every Rule, Met or Not met, with the reasoning Libra used and citations back into the contract. |
| Citations | Numbered references you can click to jump to the exact passage in the contract. |
When to use Review
A new draft of a contract you've negotiated before
The fastest way to spot deviations from your standard positions on a redline.
A document you receive from the other side
Run a Review to see at a glance which Topics need a redline, and where the deviations actually sit.
A first pass on a high-volume queue
Reviews are deterministic and consistent. Run the same template across many contracts to triage which ones need a partner’s attention.
A research-grounded check
With Auto Mode, ask whether a clause matches current case law without having to draft the rules first.
Review vs. Discovery
Both extract structured information from documents, but they answer different questions.| Review | Discovery | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Does this contract meet our standards? | What are the values across many contracts? |
| Documents | One contract at a time. | Many documents in parallel. |
| Output | Per-Topic risk + rule-level reasoning. | A spreadsheet, one row per document. |
| Best for | Negotiation, redlining, compliance checks. | Comparison, data extraction, portfolio analysis. |
Tips for getting good Reviews
Start with one or two Topics, not twenty
Start with one or two Topics, not twenty
A template with a couple of well-defined Topics gives you cleaner output than a sprawling template that tries to cover everything. Add Topics once you trust the basics.
Write Rules the way you'd brief a junior associate
Write Rules the way you'd brief a junior associate
“Weekly working time does not exceed 40 hours” is a rule. “Working time should be reasonable” is not. Specific, testable, unambiguous.
Use Ideal Language to power Word add-in suggestions
Use Ideal Language to power Word add-in suggestions
For Acceptable and Fallback positions, you can attach an Ideal Language snippet: the wording you’d accept. The Word add-in uses it to suggest concrete edits.
Verify rules that come back as Not met
Verify rules that come back as Not met
Citations are the verification path. Click through to the cited passage and confirm Libra read the contract correctly.
Next steps
Build a Review template
Topics → Positions → Rules → Ideal Language.
Auto Mode
Skip the rule-building and ask a research-backed question instead.
Understanding results
What the risk badges, match counts, and citations actually mean.
Reviews from chat
Use a completed Review as context in a chat.