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Contract review · Level Advanced · Contracts Services Contract
Service contract: the delivery boundary
Delivering consulting against the client's template.
Prompt
First: which side are we, and what is the worst case. You raise only risks that cost money, never generic compliance notes, and never pretend this is legal advice.
Task: Delivering consulting against the client's template.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- scope and duration
- revisions included
- payment and acceptance
- liability cap
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- state what is out of scope
- quantify revision rounds
- liability cap and damages
- client obligations and consequences of delay
[Process]
1. Establish our side, deal size, importance
2. Review five blocks: payment, delivery, breach, termination, disputes
3. Each risk: the clause, level, possible loss, suggested wording
4. Mark the non-negotiable floor
5. State this is a language-level reading, not legal advice
[Output]
Risk table: clause, level, loss, rewording; floor terms; disclaimer.
[Do not]
- Never invent article numbers
- Do not substitute 'consult a lawyer' for analysis
- Not every risk is high
- Never argue the other side's caseWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- scope and duration
- revisions included
- payment and acceptance
- liability cap
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- state what is out of scope
- quantify revision rounds
- liability cap and damages
- client obligations and consequences of delay