A legal read on a 47-page agreement, in under a minute.
Upload nothing · scan locally · every finding quoted from your own document
You sign vendor agreements, client MSAs, NDAs and renewals that decide what you are liable for — and reading all of them properly costs either a lawyer's fee or an evening you do not have. Contract review software is meant to solve that, but nearly all of it works by uploading your document to a cloud service first. For an agency holding a client's commercial terms, that is a problem before the review even starts.
adris takes the other approach. The scan runs on your computer. The document is read where it already sits, the findings are graded by severity, and every one of them quotes the clause it came from so you can check the software rather than trust it.
The clauses that cost money later.
- Auto-renewal traps — terms that roll over for another 24 months unless cancelled inside a short notice window, often with an uncapped price rise.
- Unlimited liability — where your side carries the whole risk and theirs is capped at the fees paid.
- Missing termination rights — an agreement you cannot leave, or can only leave by paying out the full term.
- Payment and penalty terms — net-90 buried in a schedule, or interest on late payment that only runs one way.
- IP assignment — work you thought you were licensing that is in fact being handed over outright.
- Indemnities — obligations to cover the other party's legal costs for things outside your control.
Documents in Hindi or a regional language are translated as part of the scan, so a contract you cannot read in the original is still one you can review.
Your client’s contract is your client’s business.
Cloud contract review means your counterparty's commercial terms, your pricing and your client's name sit on a third party's servers, usually under terms that permit processing and sometimes training. If you handle other people's agreements professionally, that is a confidentiality question you have to answer.
Running the scan locally removes the question entirely. There is no upload step to disclose, no processor to add to your DPA, and no retention policy to read. The answer to "where did our contract go?" is "nowhere".
Built for the people who sign the most and read the least.
Agencies & consultancies
Client MSAs and SOWs arrive faster than anyone can read them. Scan each one on arrival and know what you agreed to.
Founders & SMBs
Vendor contracts, office leases, software renewals — the paperwork nobody has time for and everybody is bound by.
Finance & ops teams
Catch the auto-renewal before it fires, and the payment terms before they hit cash flow.
Against the tools you are probably weighing it against.
| adris (Guard) | Cloud contract AI | A lawyer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the document goes | Nowhere — read on your machine | Uploaded to their servers | Emailed to a firm |
| Time for a 47-page MSA | Under a minute | Minutes | Days |
| Cost per document | Included in the plan | Per seat, often per document | ₹15,000–80,000 |
| Quotes the clause it flags | Yes, with the section number | Usually | Yes |
| Reads Hindi / regional languages | Yes, translated in the scan | Varies | Yes |
| Adds a data processor to your DPA | No | Yes | No |
| Can it be wrong | Yes — it is a first read, not advice | Yes | Accountable for it |
The honest summary: it does not replace a lawyer, and nothing that costs this little does. It tells you which clauses are worth a lawyer's hourly rate, which is the decision most people are actually stuck on.
Common questions
Does my contract get uploaded anywhere?
No. The scan runs on your own machine inside the desktop app. The file is read where it is and the findings are written locally.
Is this a replacement for a lawyer?
No, and it does not pretend to be. It is a fast first read that tells you which clauses deserve a lawyer’s time, quoted so you can hand them over directly.
What file types can it read?
PDF and Word documents, including scanned PDFs, which are read with OCR before the analysis.
What does it cost?
The desktop app is free to install. Contract scanning is included on the Builder plan and above, and the Solo plan includes 10 scans a month to try it.
Does it work offline?
Yes, if you are running a local model. The scan itself is computed on your machine either way.
Can it review contracts in Hindi or other Indian languages?
Yes. Regional-language clauses are translated as part of the scan, so a contract you cannot read in the original is still one you can review.
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Yes. A scanned document is read with OCR first, then analysed like any other file.
Can my whole team use it?
Yes, on the Builder plan and above. Each person installs the app and scans on their own machine — there is no shared server holding your documents.
How accurate is it?
It is a fast first read and it can miss things, which is why every finding quotes the clause it came from. Check the quote rather than trusting the score — that is what the quotes are there for.
Is it cheaper than a lawyer?
For a first read, by a wide margin — it is included in the plan rather than billed per document. For advice you can rely on in a dispute, a lawyer is not optional and this does not pretend to replace one.
Can I use it on contracts I have already signed?
Yes, and it is the honest way to test it: scan an agreement you already know and see whether it finds what you know is in there.
Related
Read the risky clause before you sign it.
Contract scanning runs inside Guard, part of the adris desktop app. Free to install, and your documents stay on your machine.