What actually happens
This is the sequence a vendor DPA, MSA or AI addendum goes through from the moment it arrives to the moment it is closed — with or without a Legal exception, depending on what the positions require.
Forward the vendor email or have them send directly to your governed intake address. DataHalt extracts the attachment, classifies the document type, and opens the negotiation round — no paralegal upload, no manual intake queue.
Each position is assessed against your preferred language, fallback options, regulatory floors, and the policy version governing this contract type. Jurisdiction-scoped rules apply automatically for multi-state or cross-border agreements.
Positions inside your delegated authority are progressed autonomously — the governed response goes to the vendor, the round advances, attachments are reconciled. Your team is not in the loop for exchanges that do not require judgment.
When a position falls outside authority — or when the cross-clause package creates hidden risk — Legal receives a compact exception brief: what changed, why it matters, approved fallbacks, vendor precedent, and the one decision needed to continue.
Negotiated versions, approval records, authority evidence, vendor communications and delivery events are packaged and pushed to your system of record. The audit trail is immutable and regulatory-grade.
What no CLM does
Before any governed response leaves the workspace, DataHalt evaluates the full clause package — not individual positions. Concession scores are aggregated across policy groups. A gain on liability cannot mask an unacceptable position on data residency. Hard-floor categories are enforced at the package level.
No CLM or AI redlining tool evaluates the interaction between clause positions as a negotiated package. They assess clauses individually. This is the capability that prevents a vendor from winning one clause at the cost of another.
DataHalt determines automatically when a Legal decision is needed — based on authority status, confidence threshold, fallback ceiling violations, regulatory floors, contract value, four-eyes requirements, and role-based approval rules. The brief contains what changed, why it matters, approved fallbacks, vendor pattern from memory, and a recommended response.
Legal does not review a contract. They receive one focused decision, with the context they need to make it. Once decided, the system continues. This is the 'remove Legal from the routine loop' promise implemented in code.
Before any response is sent autonomously, 14 independently configurable checks must pass: eligible contract types, max contract value, max automated rounds, minimum confidence threshold, max fallback level, prohibited categories, required approval roles, four-eyes enforcement, kill switch, governance epoch, shadow mode, regulatory evidence gates, cross-clause package assessment, and delivery channel verification.
This is not 'AI sends emails.' A GC can audit exactly which authority was in play when a response was sent, why auto-send was or was not eligible, and what boundary was enforced. The governance is structural, not optional.
Full platform
Execution
12 formal round statuses with explicit transitions, idempotency guards, and operation locking. Every state change is recorded.
Inbound classification, attachment reconciliation, counterproposal analysis, outbound delivery, failure tracking and recovery — all within the governed workspace.
Structured position exchange for vendors who prefer a portal interface over email. Same governed controls apply.
Control
Preferred positions, fallbacks, regulatory floors, negotiability tiers, jurisdiction scoping, source authority provenance, and response library — per clause rule.
Delegated authority by contract type, value, clause category, role, and jurisdiction. Authority cannot be exceeded without an approved exception.
SOC 2, ISO, DPIA, AI risk assessments and security questionnaires gate authority. Expired evidence triggers automatic authority re-assessment.
Governance
Any change to an approved playbook position requires a governance proposal and a second approver before it becomes active policy.
Every position taken, every Legal decision, every auto-send assessment, every vendor message and delivery event is permanently recorded.
Round duration, vendor response time, escalation rate, playbook acceptance rate and anonymised network benchmarks — across your workspace and the broader cohort.
Record
Source document, negotiated versions, extracted obligations, lifecycle metadata and execution status — without requiring a CLM replacement.
Push negotiated contracts, approval records and evidence packages to Ironclad, Icertis, Sirion or your configured system of record.
Delivery failures, retry attempts and recovery actions are tracked so the negotiation does not disappear into an inbox.
No rip and replace
DataHalt is the governed negotiation execution layer — the step between a vendor email arriving and your CLM receiving a completed contract. Your CLM, your procurement platform, your email infrastructure and your legal team's authority all stay in place. DataHalt enforces the policy they have already written.
DataHalt is the negotiation execution layer. Ironclad, Icertis, Sirion and other CLMs receive the completed package. Nothing is ripped out.
DataHalt connects to your existing email domain via a governed intake address. Vendors see your domain, not ours.
Playbook positions are created, approved, versioned and owned by your legal team. DataHalt enforces the policy — it does not write it.
Authority limits, four-eyes rules, escalation routing and kill switches are configured by your team. DataHalt cannot exceed what you have authorised.
Built for regulated industries
For insurance, financial services and enterprise procurement teams operating across multiple states or jurisdictions — where a single conceded position on breach notification or data residency can carry regulatory consequence.
Regulatory floors enforced per state or territory. No counsel can concede a protected position across any jurisdiction.
SOC 2, ISO certifications and DPIAs gate position authority. Expired certificates trigger automatic re-assessment.
Every decision, auto-send assessment and vendor exchange is permanently recorded and available for regulatory inspection.
Regulatory floor positions on notification windows are hard stops. The system cannot accept a 5-day window when your floor is 72 hours.
Governance by design
We configure each initial workflow around your contract types, approved playbook, authority policy and existing systems. A measured pilot starts with contracts your team already negotiates every quarter.