Response to the counterparty
- 0 changes accepted, 0 rejected; 3 material changes reviewed.
- The resulting text has 4 lines.
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Demonstration: Halden Hospitals Group (fictional) · Healthcare. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Halden Hospitals Group (fictional)
- Who is asking
- Commercial lawyer
- Industry
- Healthcare
- What happened
- The counterparty has returned our service agreement with tracked changes, and the lawyer must decide which to take.
The question asked
Which of the counterparty's changes should we accept, and which change what we are committed to?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Our template documentThe standard clause set.
- Counterparty markup documentTheir tracked changes.
- Negotiation playbook documentPositions with fallbacks.
- Reads
- The two versions of the agreement and the playbook.
- Does not read
- Other negotiations.
- Permission
- The lawyer attaches both versions.
- Who sees it
- The commercial lawyer and the business owner.
Try it
Accept or reject each change. The text below is rebuilt from the changes you accept, and changes that alter what people must do are marked.
Services agreement, our draft
The Supplier shall provide the Services with reasonable skill and care.
Added Changes what people must do
The Supplier shall comply with the Customer's information security policy as updated from time to time.
Binds us to a document we cannot see and they can change.
Fees are payable within thirty days of invoice.
Reworded
Fees are payable within sixty days of invoice.
Within the playbook's fallback for this customer type.
Either party may terminate on ninety days' written notice.
Reworded Changes what people must do
Either party may terminate on thirty days' written notice.
Shortens our security of revenue from ninety to thirty days.
The Supplier's liability is limited to twice the annual fees.
Reworded Changes what people must do
The Supplier's liability is unlimited.
Outside the playbook entirely; needs the general counsel.
The text after your decisions (4 lines)
- The Supplier shall provide the Services with reasonable skill and care.
- Fees are payable within thirty days of invoice.
- Either party may terminate on ninety days' written notice.
- The Supplier's liability is limited to twice the annual fees.
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
4 counterparty changes: you have accepted 0, rejected 0, and 4 remain.
One change sits within the playbook's fallback (the longer payment period) and can be accepted [S2]. The other three change the commitment we are making: a shorter termination notice, unlimited liability and a security policy we do not control [S1].
0 of the changes you have accepted change what we must do or risk. The resulting text below is the agreement as it would stand if sent back now.
Relies on: S1 · Our template and their markupS2 · Negotiation playbook, services
Review and approval
The commercial lawyer, with the general counsel for anything outside the playbook decides. Approving sends the resulting text back to the counterparty as our position. It does not sign the agreement.
Not ready to approve. 4 changes are still undecided. Accept or reject each one first.
In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- The playbook is synthetic and generic; a real one would be the firm's.
- A rewording can change meaning in ways a line-by-line view hides; the lawyer reads the whole.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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