Practice note, July 4, 2025
Practice note: writing an obligations register the business will maintain
The problem
This one comes up in almost every matter review, and the answer is less settled than the confidence around it suggests.
In testing, the gap between a fast pass and a careful pass was not accuracy on the central question. It was whether the reviewer noticed the interaction with an adjacent provision.
What we do about it
We score against a human baseline drawn from executed matters rather than a synthetic set, because synthetic contracts do not contain the drafting scars that cause real misses.
In the current build this runs as part of the standard pass, so it applies to every document in the set rather than only the ones someone thought to check.
Where it breaks
Scanned originals with poor image quality remain the weakest input. So do agreements that were assembled from three precedents and never reconciled, which is common in long-lived supplier relationships.
The practical takeaway is narrow: write the exception down, point it at a source, and give it an owner.
Working notes from the Lawrs team. General information about legal technology and practice, not legal advice.