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Every contract keeps its obligations attached

Meet PRAX, a contract operations employee. PRAX carries each agreement from intake through review, approval, signature, obligations, notices, and renewal. The business gets a usable record; counsel keeps legal interpretation and the decision to accept risk.

First useful file
A contract brief with business terms, legal questions, dates, and owner decisions
Planned first delivery
Same day for a complete agreement and business request
Best for
Owners signing customer and vendor agreements without a dedicated contract manager or in-house legal team

Expert tier · In formation. See how the tiers work.

The workflows PRAX owns

One employee carries the work from the first fact through the next decision. The files below belong together because they use the same business record and improve one another.

  1. 01

    Request and intake

    Connects the agreement to the deal, vendor, worker, or partnership decision and gathers the facts a reviewer needs.

    • Contract request brief
    • Missing-fact list
    • Document and amendment chain
    • Review routing record

    For every new agreement or amendment

  2. 02

    Review coordination

    Compares the draft to approved positions, names factual conflicts, and prepares questions that belong with counsel or the owner.

    • Business-terms summary
    • Clause issue list
    • Approved-language comparison
    • Counsel question packet

    At each material draft

  3. 03

    Negotiation record

    Keeps proposed language, counterpart responses, business tradeoffs, and accountable approvals tied to the correct version.

    • Negotiation position log
    • Redline instruction packet
    • Decision record
    • Version history

    Through negotiation and approval

  4. 04

    Signature and repository

    Checks the approved version, signer, attachments, and evidence before preserving the executed agreement and amendment chain.

    • Signature-ready checklist
    • Execution record
    • Agreement index
    • Amendment map

    At signature and after every amendment

  5. 05

    Obligations and renewals

    Turns the signed agreement into owned work, notice dates, renewal decisions, and evidence of completion.

    • Obligations register
    • Notice calendar
    • Renewal brief
    • Termination or change packet

    Weekly watch with monthly and renewal reviews

Illustrative work product

A file you can inspect before PRAX ships

This is not customer work. It is the first-file test: a concrete packet that shows the facts, open decisions, boundaries, and next action the employee must carry.

  • The illustrative agreement and figures are fictional and are not customer work.
  • Legal conclusions, negotiation authority, acceptance, signature, and legal representation remain outside the role.
  • The role preserves contract wording and approved positions rather than inventing a universal risk score.

PRAX-01 · formation file

A contract brief with business terms, legal questions, dates, and owner decisions

Illustrative

Illustrative sample · not customer work

Customer agreement review and obligations brief

Illustrative file for a twelve-month customer agreement proposed to a five-person software company. The customer supplied its paper. The brief separates business facts, approved company positions, and questions for counsel. It is not legal advice and does not tell the owner which terms to accept.

Business record

The proposed annual fee is $72,000, billed quarterly. Service begins September 1. The sales record promises standard support and one data import; it does not promise a custom integration. The customer draft describes the work as continuous consulting and lists a July 15 start date. Those conflicts must be resolved before clause review can be treated as complete.

Terms requiring a decision or legal review

The draft renews automatically for one year unless notice is given 90 days before the term ends. Pricing is fixed through renewal. The liability section has no stated cap. The customer may terminate for convenience with 30 days’ notice. Security duties refer to an exhibit that is not attached. Governing law differs from the company’s approved fallback. PRAX records the text and consequence; counsel and the owner decide the position.

  • Owner: confirm intended start date, billing schedule, and whether convenience termination changes the deal.
  • Sales owner: remove the consulting description and attach the approved statement of work.
  • Security owner: obtain and review the missing security exhibit before approval.
  • Counsel: review liability, governing law, renewal notice, and termination language.

Version and approval state

The file marked customer-draft-2 is the current counterpart version. No redline is labeled final. The agreement is blocked from signature until the statement of work, security exhibit, business terms, and counsel responses are attached to one approval record. PRAX will compare the signature copy to that approved version before routing it.

Post-signature work prepared

If approved and signed, the obligations record will include quarterly invoices, the service start, the data-import delivery, security notice duties, the 90-day renewal decision, and every notice address. Each item receives an owner, evidence requirement, and reminder date. A later amendment will update this record rather than sit beside it as an isolated file.

PRAX next to the tool and human paths

Spellbook helps legal teams draft, review, compare, and redline contracts in Microsoft Word. PRAX carries the business record around the document: intake, questions, approvals, signature, obligations, notices, and renewal. An attorney still interprets the law and decides whether the business should accept legal risk.

What PRAX, Spellbook, and a Business attorney each do.
ResponsibilityPRAXSpellbookBusiness attorney
Summarize, review, and redline a contractYesYesYes
Compare the draft with approved business positionsYesYesYes
Route open issues with the business facts attachedYesLimitedYes
Maintain obligations, notices, and renewalsYesLimitedYes
Give legal adviceNoNoYes
Decide whether to accept legal riskNoNoYes

Tool column checked against the official Spellbook product page on August 6, 2026. Features vary by plan. “Limited” means the option covers part of the row or still needs someone to operate it.

What forms PRAX

These are the primary sources that establish the work, current requirements, and professional boundaries. The live employee will check current sources again when the work begins.

The first month with PRAX

By day 30, every active agreement can be traced from business request through approved version, signed record, material obligations, and next decision date.

  1. 01 · Day 1

    I inventory active agreements, open drafts, renewal dates, repositories, and approved review positions.

  2. 02 · Week 1

    I publish the first contract queue, review packets, missing-file list, and urgent notice dates.

  3. 03 · Month 1

    I maintain one current agreement index, obligation register, review record, and rolling renewal brief.

Works with your existing systems

  • Slack
  • Google Drive
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • DocuSign
  • Adobe Acrobat Sign
  • CRM
  • Calendar

What PRAX does not do

I do not give legal advice, form an attorney-client relationship, or claim to replace counsel.

I do not decide whether a clause is enforceable or whether the business should accept a legal risk.

I do not send a redline, accept language, sign, terminate, or deliver a legal notice without approval.

I do not silently merge drafts, amendments, exhibits, or oral promises into one supposed agreement.

The line that does not move

I will not give legal advice, accept a term, sign an agreement, or replace counsel.

When the record conflicts

If versions, attachments, approvals, or business facts conflict, I stop the signature or notice route, preserve each source, and name the exact unresolved item.

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