I Let Claude Redline a Contract and It Found the Clause My Lawyer Missed

I dropped a 30-page vendor contract into Claude and asked it to flag anything that let them raise prices without notice. It quoted the exact clause and explained the trigger in plain words.

The trick was specificity. 'Review this contract' gets a summary. 'Find clauses about price changes and auto-renewal' gets the lines a lawyer would actually charge you to find.

I still sent it to counsel -- Claude is a first pass, not a signature. But it cut the review from an hour of squinting to ten minutes of checking its work.

Use Claude as a ruthless reader with a checklist. You keep the legal decision; it keeps the eyes on the fine print.