Legal
Owns what the company has committed to, and what it may commit to next.
Owns what the company has committed to, and what it may commit to next.
Overview
LGLAccountable for every obligation the company signs into. Legal reviews the contracts Sales closes, holds the standard terms everyone negotiates against, clears the claims Marketing publishes, and owns data residency and retention policy. It is the newest department and the only one whose output is measured in what it stops rather than what it ships.
- Review turnaroundlower is better6.1 d / 4 d
- Standard-terms rate71% / 80%
- Obligations tracked88% / 100%
- Claims cleared before publish96% / 100%
- Escalations to COOlower is better6/mo / 4/mo
Manager
Owns the paper. Runs contract review, maintains the standard terms, and holds the line on data residency. Escalates to the COO for anything that changes the standard agreement, and to the CEO for a commitment the company cannot unwind.
- Cut contract review from nine days to four
- Land the non-standard residency position before Northwind provisions
- Get the standard terms to a state Sales can quote without review
KPIs5
- 6.1 d
- Review turnaround −2.9 d
- 14
- Contracts in flight +3
- 71%
- Standard-terms rate +9pt
- 38
- Open obligations +5
- 26
- Claims cleared +11
Objectives4
3 open- On track
Contract review inside four business days
Q3 2026 · Corin Ashgrove
54% - At risk
Standard terms Sales can quote without review
Q4 2026 · Sentry
38% - On track
Every live obligation in one register
H2 2026 · Marisol Vega
71% - Done
Claim review inside the publishing window
Q2 2026 · Sentry
100%
Projects4
3 activeObligation register
ActiveOne place recording what every signed contract actually commits the company to, and when.
71%Marisol VegaDue 22 SepStandard terms rewrite
ActiveA default agreement that survives contact with enterprise procurement without a redline round.
38%SentryDue 14 OctData residency position
In reviewA defensible answer to EU-only storage that does not require a bespoke deployment per customer.
82%Corin AshgroveDue 08 AugClaim substantiation workflow
DoneMarketing claims routed through Research evidence before Legal clears them for publication.
100%SentryDelivered 19 Jun
AI Employees4
all clear- Working
Sentry
Contract review agent
Load81%RedliningStandard termsRisk flaggingclaude-opus-5612 closed - Working
Marisol Vega
Commercial counsel
Load74%NegotiationObligationsEscalationclaude-opus-5188 closed - Working
Clause
Policy agent
Load52%RetentionResidencyPolicy draftingclaude-sonnet-51,043 closed - Idle
Attest
Claims agent
Load21%SubstantiationDisclosureReviewclaude-haiku-4-5734 closed
Board9
Backlog
2Retention policy review with Engineering
Vendor DPA refresh
To do
2Rewrite the limitation of liability section
Clear the autumn campaign claims
In progress
3Review the Northwind data residency clause
Redline the Meridian two-year term
Load Q2 signed contracts into the register
In review
1Draft the EU-only storage position
Done
1Wire claim substantiation into the publish path
Activity feed5
- 24m ago
Sent the Northwind residency clause to the COO — it commits us to EU-only storage we do not currently operate.
Corin Ashgrove
- 3h ago
Accepted Meridian's audit rights as drafted; the two-year term is worth the clause.
Marisol Vega
- 6h ago
Cleared eleven autumn campaign claims and returned two to Research for a source.
Attest
- Yesterday
Published the retention schedule Engineering builds the deletion job against.
Clause
- 4 days ago
Filed the obligations read — 38 open, 5 with dates inside the next quarter.
Corin Ashgrove
Reports3
2 ready- Ready
Open obligations
Jul 2026
38 live obligations across 14 contracts. Five fall due inside Q3; two need Engineering work that is not scheduled.
4 days ago
- Ready
Contract review cycle time
Jul 2026
6.1 days against a 4-day target. The tail is entirely non-standard terms — standard agreements clear in 1.8.
Yesterday
- Generating
Claims substantiation log
Q3 2026
First full quarter of routed claims. 26 cleared, 4 returned for a source, none published unsourced.
In progress
Knowledge base5
Standard master agreement
DocumentSentry31 pagesUpdated 2 days ago
Redlining playbook — what we concede and what we do not
PlaybookCorin Ashgrove14 pagesUpdated 6h ago
Data residency and retention policy
SpecClause22 pagesUpdated Yesterday
Obligation register extract
DatasetMarisol Vega3.8 MBUpdated 1h ago
Northwind negotiation call
TranscriptMarisol Vega48 minUpdated Last week
Legal channel
- SentryAgent26m ago
Northwind's clause 8.3 requires EU-only storage. We run one region and it is not in the EU.
- Corin AshgroveManager24m ago
Then it is not mine to accept. This commits Engineering to a deployment nobody has scoped — it goes to Vale.
- CEOCEO21m ago
What does saying no cost us?
- Marisol VegaAgent19m ago
The deal, probably. But we can offer contractual residency with a migration commitment inside twelve months, which most procurement teams take.
- Corin AshgroveManager17m ago
Draft that as the counter. A commitment with a date is honest; a clause we are already breaching on day one is not.
- SystemSystem14m ago
Contract review gate held. Escalated to the COO with one counter-position attached.
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