Review Options are the lenses the AI applies when analysing your document. There are four lenses available, and you can run any combination — including a single lens by itself. This article explains what each lens checks for and when to use it.
Tip: All four Review Options can be run independently. Need a quick proofread? Run Drafting Quality on its own with no Playbook selected. Want a full-spectrum review? Tick all four.
Where to set Review Options
Review Options sit in the middle of the Review tab configuration screen, below Governing Law. Tick the lenses you want included in this review. Issues detected by the AI are tagged with the lens that found them, so you can filter or group findings by lens after the analysis runs.
Playbook
Compares clauses in the document against the Playbook you select from the list. The AI uses your Playbook's Must Have, Want and Will Accept positions to assess each clause and to suggest replacement wording when a clause falls short. The Review Style you choose (Pragmatic, Balanced or Strict) controls how strictly the comparison is applied.
Use Playbook when you have a stored Playbook that represents your organisation's standard position on a contract type — for example, an NDA Playbook or a Master Services Agreement Playbook.
Requires at least one active Playbook in Knowledge Management.
Jurisdiction
Flags clauses that conflict with the selected Governing Law. The AI applies general legal knowledge of the chosen jurisdiction — not your Playbook — so this lens is useful for catching jurisdiction-specific issues your Playbook might not cover, such as execution-block requirements or local statutory norms.
Use Jurisdiction when you're reviewing a document that needs to comply with a specific jurisdiction's general legal standards.
Tip: Set Governing Law to AI Detected to let the AI infer the jurisdiction from the document, or use Custom to enter your own.
Market Practice
Flags clauses that materially deviate from standard commercial practice. The AI uses general market norms for the document type to spot terms that look unusual or off-market — for example, an unusually long survival period or a one-sided indemnity.
Use Market Practice when you want a sanity-check against the wider market, especially on counterparty-supplied paper.
Drafting Quality
Checks the document for basic drafting issues — numbering errors, spelling and grammar, broken cross-references, inconsistent definitions and missing or out-of-place sections. Drafting Quality is independent of any Playbook and can be run on its own.
Use Drafting Quality when you want a quick proofread of a draft, or as a final pass before sending a document out.
Note: Each issue card shows a tag indicating which lens detected it (Playbook, Jurisdiction, Market Practice or Drafting). Use this to filter findings or to focus on one lens at a time when reviewing the results.
Combining lenses
There's no penalty for ticking all four. The AI runs each lens independently and merges the findings into the results. Some lenses can also resolve each other — for example, accepting a Playbook redline that rewrites a clause definition often resolves related Drafting Quality issues automatically.
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