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ProductApril 14, 2026

Every contract gets the same scrutiny, regardless of dollar value

Every contract a business signs contains terms that can cost money years after the signature. Auto-renewal clauses with annual escalators. Termination penalties. Liability caps that do not match exposure. Indemnity language that shifts risk in the vendor's favor. Most of these live on page eight or twelve, written in language designed to be skimmed past. The contract reads fine in fifteen minutes; the consequences arrive over the next five years.

Ceven's contract analyzer reads every word so the operator does not have to. Upload any contract type — vendor agreement, employment offer, commercial lease, insurance policy, NDA, MSA, DPA, BAA, order form — and within seconds it returns a plain-language risk summary. Not legal jargon. Not a forty-page markup. A clear breakdown of what the contract actually commits to, what it allows the counterparty to do without further approval, and where there is room to negotiate before signing.

The system flags the clauses that matter most. Auto-renewal with a sixty-day cancellation window that has already passed. A four percent annual escalator compounding over a five-year term. A liability cap set at the contract value while exposure runs well beyond it. Indemnification language that exposes the customer to the vendor's third-party claims. Each flag is ranked by financial impact and surfaced first.

Most teams do not have legal review every contract. The volume is too high and the budgets are too tight. Contracts under a certain threshold get signed without a second look. That threshold is exactly where counterparties bury their most aggressive terms, because they know nobody is reading closely. Ceven closes that gap by giving every contract the same scrutiny regardless of dollar value, in seconds rather than days.

The output lands next to the rest of the customer's operational record. Renewal calendars track the cancellation windows. Obligation extraction populates the CLM with the right reminder cadence. The legal team reviews the cases that need legal judgment, not the routine ones the agent already handled.

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