The Commitments With No Deadline
A commitment does not need a date to bind you. ClauseMinds reads the standing ones—confidentiality, non-use, exclusivity, IP ownership, and transfer, insurance, and subcontracting limits—quotes the exact clause for each, and sends every item through human review. The commitments that do carry dates are read too, and derive into a forward view of what the contracts commit you to pay and when.
Rules read the deadlines. A grounded model reads the rest.
ClauseMinds reads contracts in two lanes. Deterministic rules extract the dated obligations—renewal notices, termination deadlines, payment terms. A grounded LLM lane reads the standing commitments: obligations with no deadline that a date-based extractor cannot see. Both lanes land in the same place, side by side on the obligations surface. And the dated lane is not only deadlines: the monetary ones derive into commitments by date, and price-escalation clauses derive into their own register.
- Deterministic rules extract renewal notices, termination deadlines, and payment terms
- The LLM lane reads confidentiality, non-use, exclusivity, and IP ownership
- Transfer, insurance, and subcontracting limits are tracked the same way
- Standing commitments get their own lane, alongside dated deadlines
- Commitments by date: a forward view of dated monetary obligations, escalator steps, termination fees, and decisions due—derived from clauses, never from invoices
- An escalator register carries every uplift, its cap, and its annualised effect against the base you are actually paying
- NDAs, license agreements, and shareholders' agreements are no longer near-empty results
Grounded, reviewed, and honest about what it did not find
Standing commitments come from a language model, so the guardrails are strict: every item must quote its source, every item passes human review, and every check is recorded—including the ones that found nothing.
Grounded-or-gone
Every extracted item quotes the exact source clause it came from. If the model cannot point to the text, the item is dropped—it never reaches you.
Human review on everything
Nothing from the LLM lane is auto-accepted. Every standing commitment goes through the same review queue as the rules lane before it counts as tracked.
Per-document-type profiles
Each document type has a profile of what ClauseMinds tracks for it. An NDA is not scored against payment terms it will never contain.
No silent misses
“We checked for X — nothing found” is an explicit, reviewable claim. Silence is never ambiguous: you can see what was checked and what came back empty.
NDAs are first-class
Documents with few or no dated obligations—NDAs, license agreements, shareholders' agreements—now produce a real read instead of an empty timeline.
No accuracy claim yet
We publish no precision or recall for this lane. It needs a live model key, so it cannot run on the push gate that guards the dated-obligation numbers, and we will not quote a figure we cannot reproduce on demand. The guarantees above—quote the clause or be dropped, human review on everything—are enforced in code instead.
An empty result tells you what was checked
When a clause type is missing, you should not have to wonder whether the contract lacks it or the software skipped it. ClauseMinds records every check it ran against the document's review profile—found, nothing found, or not expected for this document type—so you can review the negatives, not just the positives.
- Every profile check is recorded, including the empty ones
- “Nothing found” is a claim you can review, not an absence
- Checks are scoped by document type, so NDAs are not scored against irrelevant clause types
- Found items link straight to their quoted source clause
Confidentiality
2 clauses quoted
Non-use of confidential information
1 clause quoted
IP ownership
Checked — nothing found
Exclusivity
Checked — nothing found
Payment terms
Not expected in an NDA
Track the obligations that never expire
Confidentiality, exclusivity, and IP ownership do not show up on a calendar. ClauseMinds reads them, quotes the clause behind each one, and puts a human decision in front of every item—beside the commitments that do carry dates and amounts, on a forward view built from the same clauses.