AI review for SaaS agreements — before the renewal decides for you.
Subscription agreements are engineered to be signed quickly and revisited never: SLA remedies capped at service credits, data rights buried in the definitions, auto-renewals with price escalators. ContractShield reads every clause against your risk posture, and keeps the executed agreement — and its renewal date — where you can act on it.
Where subscription agreements bite — checked on every review
Evaluated across the standard risk categories — liability, payment, termination, warranty, confidentiality, IP, and more — against your configured risk posture, not a generic checklist.
Uptime & SLA Remedies
Availability commitments, credit-only remedies, and whether chronic failure ever ripens into a right to terminate.
Data Ownership & Usage
Provider rights to use customer data, "aggregated and anonymized" carve-outs, and what happens to derived data.
Security & Breach Notification
Security standard commitments, audit rights, and breach notification windows — measured against your posture.
Auto-Renewal & Price Increases
Evergreen terms, renewal notice windows, and uncapped price escalators hiding in the order form.
Limitation of Liability
Caps sized to 12 months of fees sitting next to uncapped data-breach exposure — the classic SaaS asymmetry.
Termination & Data Return
Export windows, deletion timelines, formats, and transition assistance when the relationship ends.
License Scope & Usage Limits
Seat definitions, overage pricing, affiliate use, and audit rights that tend to arrive with teeth.
Publicity & Logo Rights
Case-study and logo-use permissions granted by default — flagged if your posture says ask first.
Signed is not the finish line for a subscription.
ContractShield reviews the agreement clause-by-clause against your posture — flagging credit-only SLA remedies, data-usage rights, and renewal mechanics, with suggested replacement language exported as real Word tracked changes and response language ready to send to the vendor.
Then it keeps working after signature: the executed agreement lands in the encrypted vault, full-text searchable, with obligations and renewal dates extracted — and renewal alerts that fire before the auto-renewal window closes, not after.
Subscription agreements map your vendors, spend, and data flows.
Every uploaded document is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before it touches disk — fail-closed, so an agreement is stored encrypted or not at all. Nothing you upload is used to train AI models, files are never served from public paths, and every access is audit-logged.
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How does the AI classify clauses?
Each clause is evaluated against your risk posture and assigned one of four classifications:
- Hardline Violation — Directly conflicts with your non-negotiable terms. Must be changed.
- Gray Area — Falls in a negotiable zone. May need changes depending on context.
- Possible Give — Acceptable risk. You could concede this point during negotiations.
- Within Tolerance — Fully acceptable. No action needed.
What types of contracts can ContractShield review?
ContractShield supports MSA, SOW, NDA, Amendment, Subcontract, Vendor Agreement, and Lease (commercial lease) contract types. Each type gets specialized analysis — for example, commercial leases are evaluated for lease-specific risks like NNN/CAM obligations, rent escalation terms, tenant improvement allowances, personal guarantees, holdover penalties, and assignment/subletting restrictions, in addition to the standard risk categories.
Can ContractShield review SaaS and subscription agreements?
Yes. Upload a SaaS or subscription agreement as an MSA or Vendor Agreement contract type and it gets the full clause-by-clause review against your posture — including the terms that matter most in subscription deals: SLA remedies limited to service credits, provider rights to use customer data, auto-renewal and price-escalation mechanics, liability caps sitting next to data-breach exposure, and termination/data-return windows. After signature, the executed agreement lives in the encrypted vault with its renewal date extracted, so you get an alert before the auto-renewal window closes.
ContractShield also reviews vendor MSAs, NDAs, and commercial leases.
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The 30-day free trial includes AI reviews — enough to see your SaaS agreements against a real risk posture. No credit card required.