The maker cannot be the checker

Independent review for complex contracts

Clients include DLA Piper, Dentons, ASDA, Slaughter and May, bp, A&O Shearman, Samsung, Fried Frank, Pinsent Masons, Eversheds Sutherland, Freeths, Harneys, Shoosmiths, Bowmans, Withersworldwide and IKEA

Pedantic and proud

As drafting tools get more capable, the need for review increases. For review to be credible, the maker cannot be the checker. Definely is used by lawyers operating at the highest level to protect sound legal judgment and stay in control of complex contracts.

Maintain context

Contracts aren’t written to be read linearly. A clause on page 12 may depend on a definition on page 80. Definely brings that meaning to the clause in front of you, without scrolling, printing, or Ctrl+F. Read it, fix it in place, and never lose your thread.

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Proofread meticulously

Clients rarely see the judgment calls you got right. They always seem to notice the one error that slipped through. A stray capital letter can redefine a term. A broken cross-reference can point an obligation at nothing. A term defined twice can mean two conflicting things at once. Definely catches errors in one pass, consistently, every time.

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Compare against your standard

Every draft drifts. A clause strays from your standard form, the definition of Margin no longer matches the term sheet, and a definition means one thing in the SPA and another in the disclosure letter. Definely compares the draft against your standard and the deal itself, and shows you precisely where it has wandered.

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Stay in control

Your name goes on the contract, so the decisions in it should stay yours. Definely shows its working to support your judgment, rather than trying to replace it. Anything you accept is added as a tracked change you can review word by word. Definely suggests; you decide.

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Find and reuse precedent

Your firm has almost certainly drafted the clause you need before. Finding it is the hard part when you don’t know what the document was called. Definely connects to your DMS, so you can search your firm’s precedent in natural language and pick the best fit. Then insert it with its formatting matched and its definitions brought in alongside it.

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Report and share

Each turn of a draft can leave markup, comments, and open placeholders behind. In seconds, Definely turns them into an issues list to take your client through and a gaps list of everything to fill in. The reference report sends colleagues only the clauses they need, with the associated definitions, and when their markup comes back, Definely folds it into the original as tracked changes.

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Review where you work

Definely was built natively for Microsoft Word. Now available via MCP, the same rules-based review technology works inside Claude, ChatGPT, and your firm’s own AI tools, so you can review an AI’s draft without leaving the tool that wrote it.

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Hear what our customers have to say

“I thought those tools were it, and then Definely came in and showed us that the tools that we had aren’t it. This tool is really a game changer.”

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Director of Innovation Solutions

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“Definely makes the review of documents easier, in particular as we shift to reviewing large documents on screen and away from paper. It also ensures that the documents we produce are of a higher quality and have a greater internal consistency. We have seen good global adoption across our Corporate team and strong feedback from our lawyers on the ability for the tool to speed up and improve their work.”

Hugh Robinson

Partner, Financial Services M&A and Private Capital

“It definitely is quicker for me reviewing a document once it’s been through Definely, because I know I’m not looking out for rogue cross-references. I’m basically able to read the contract and apply the experience to it in terms of focusing on the big issues.”

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Corporate M&A Partner

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Steve Dalgleish

Head of Technology

“I just hadn’t appreciated how annoying it was to have to flick back to the definition table, and then to the cross-reference clause, and then the schedule… and lose my train of thought four times. And now I don’t need to. It’s just there.”

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Chief Innovation Officer and Partner

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“Not only does it do what a human can do and save the time of the human, it actually does it better. The output is more accurate than a human can achieve. This isn’t just about time saving. This is about developing things that previously we couldn’t give our clients.”

Tony Randle

Director, Client Technology & Service Improvement

Secure and trusted

Definely meets the security standards of the world’s largest law firms and in-house teams.

Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit, with the option of SSO for sign in. Customer data is never used to train AI models. ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications, along with a summary of our most recent penetration tests, are available in Definely’s Trust Center, trust.definely.com. Where a firm has specific requirements about where their data is held, dedicated deployment options are available.