What this skill does
Clause Extractor pulls specific clause types out of one or multiple contracts, classifies them, and — when working across multiple documents — compares them to identify variations, missing provisions, and drafting inconsistencies. It is the core tool for contract portfolio analysis, large-scale due diligence, and template development.
You specify the clause types you want (limitation of liability, governing law, assignment, change of control, IP ownership, confidentiality, non-compete, termination for convenience, force majeure — or your own custom list) and the skill extracts all relevant provisions from the documents you provide, presents them in a structured comparison table, and flags the significant variations between them.
This skill transforms a task that would typically require a paralegal team to work for days — reviewing 50 supplier contracts for their liability caps — into a task that takes a few minutes and returns a structured spreadsheet-ready output.
When to use it
- Due diligence: reviewing a portfolio of customer or supplier contracts for a specific clause type
- Template harmonisation: identifying how a specific provision varies across a firm's standard templates before updating them
- Portfolio risk review: extracting all liability caps across a contracts portfolio to assess aggregate exposure
- Pre-litigation: identifying all notice provisions or termination rights in a set of related contracts
What you get
A structured extraction with: Clause Classification (what type of clause this is and how it is categorised), Verbatim Extract (the exact clause text with document reference and section number), Summary (a plain-language explanation of what the clause does), Market Norm Comparison (whether the clause is standard, more favourable, or less favourable than market), and — when extracting across multiple documents — a Comparison Table showing each document and its version of the requested clause, with a Variation Analysis section highlighting the most significant differences and their practical implications.
Example prompt inputs
- "I have 15 IT service agreements — please extract all limitation of liability clauses and present them in a comparison table"
- "From this M&A share purchase agreement, please extract all representations and warranties and classify them by topic"
- "Please extract all governing law and dispute resolution clauses from these 8 distribution agreements and flag any that are inconsistent with our standard"
- "Extract all intellectual property ownership provisions from these employment and consultancy agreements — I need to check our IP chain of title before the Series B"
Why legal-specific AI matters here
Clause extraction sounds mechanical, but it requires legal understanding: you need to recognise that a clause labelled "Limitation of Liability" may also contain an indemnification carve-out that effectively expands liability, or that a "force majeure" clause may be spread across three separate sections of a contract. A general text extraction tool will find keyword matches. Whisperit's Clause Extractor understands contract structure, recognises provisions by their function rather than just their label, and surfaces the legally significant variations rather than just the textual differences.