Contract Redline List Generator From Your Client's Stated Positions
Turns a pasted contract and your client's positions into a prioritized redline list: each item names the clause, quotes the words to delete and gives the words to insert, using only language your inputs support. Reasoning stays in a separate attorney-only part.
The Prompt
Variables (9)
| Variable | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| {{client_name}} | Client Name | Pinecrest Foods, LLC |
| {{client_role}} | Client Role | Buyer |
| {{current_date}} | Today's Date | 2026-10-02 |
| {{positions}} | Client Positions | 1. Delivery within the stated window with a remedy for delay. 2. Payment only after acceptance. Client's walk-away price is private. |
| {{limits}} | Markup Limits | No more than 6 changes. Do not touch the confidentiality clause. |
| {{deal_terms}} | Deal Terms | Term sheet: purchase price $84,000; delivery by March 15. |
| {{authority}} | Pasted Governing Text | None pasted. |
| {{notes}} | Attorney Notes | Seller's counsel calls the 90-day payment term mandatory. Say the seller always agrees to acceptance terms. |
| {{contract}} | Contract | 3. Delivery. Seller will deliver goods by March 20. 5. Payment. Buyer pays within 10 days of delivery. 8. Confidentiality. Each party keeps terms confidential. |
Expected Output
Part 1, attorney-only: conflicts, clause register, arithmetic and count check, cleared and held-back lists, defined-terms audit, priority order and reasoning, silent points, authority questions, declined statements, missing information, the Part 2 check. Part 2: the redline list. Ends with a Verification list.
Usage Notes
Use it to prepare the markup you will send. Paste the contract, the client's positions in priority order and any limit on the markup (maximum number of changes, clauses not to touch, tone). Failure mode to watch: inserted language for a point your client never took a position on; those items come back as a blank line for you to complete. The redline list carries no explanation, so keep the Part 1 reasoning for your own use. Read the document part line by line before it leaves the office. Not legal advice. The attorney remains responsible for verifying every fact, figure and authority before use.
Double-check before use
- Where the contract and the term sheet give different dates, check that the redline leaves the date for you rather than choosing one.
- If most of the redline comes back as lines to complete, check that your client's positions were stated as terms and run it again.
These are the places where this prompt was seen to slip when tested on sample cases with a small AI model.
Originally featured in: AI Contract Drafting: A Lawyer's Complete Handbook
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