Contract Review Tool: What to Look For (and What We Flag)
If you're running a small business, reviewing vendor contracts probably isn’t your favorite part of the week. It’s time-consuming, full of legal landmines, and often unclear where to even begin.
That’s why we built Langley: a tool that reviews contracts like an operator, not a lawyer. Here's what we flag (and why it matters).
🗓 Critical Dates
We identify:
Contract start and end dates
Auto-renewal dates
Cancellation notice requirements (e.g., “must notify 60 days before end date”)
Billing anniversary or escalation windows
📌 Why it matters: Most cost creep comes from missed notice windows. Our tool catches these so you don’t.
💸 Financial Risk Triggers
We flag:
Auto-renewals
Early termination fees
Annual price escalators
Payment obligations even after cancellation
Late fees and penalty clauses
📌 Why it matters: Many of these risks are buried in legalese. Langley pulls them to the surface and decodes them in plain English.
🔐 Switching Friction
We extract:
Data export or migration limits
Notice periods required for downgrades
Any implementation or onboarding fees if you switch vendors
Contract minimums that block partial usage
📌 Why it matters: This is the fine print that keeps you locked in. Langley highlights it before you get stuck.
📎 Real Clauses. Real Examples.
Our database has hundreds of anonymized clauses from real contracts. That means we don’t just say "watch for auto-renewal" — we show you exactly how it’s worded across Salesforce, Zenefits, Paychex, and others.
📈 Built for Scale
Langley isn’t just a tool for a one-off review. We’re designed to process 10, 100, or even 1,000 contracts and summarize the risk across all of them. Perfect for:
Multi-location businesses
PE or roll-up firms
Back-office audits
⚙️ What You Can Do With a Review
📬 Send the summary to your operations team
📁 Store and tag contracts by risk area
🧾 Share with your CPA, CFO, or legal partner
✂️ Use insights to renegotiate before renewal
👉 Want a contract flagged? Upload a doc (via our secure Dropbox) and we’ll return a full summary within 24 hours.
🔍 Curious what we catch? Read our teardown of an actual Salesforce contract here.