Gerri is Common Paper's AI contract review agent. It helps you analyze and negotiate legal agreements against a custom playbook so your team spends less time on routine contract edits and more time closing deals.

Gerri can help with many aspects of contract review:

Gerri handles two common negotiation scenarios, evaluating both against your custom playbook: reviewing a contract that's been redlined by your customer, and reviewing a clean agreement for potential issues.

When a customer returns a redlined agreement, Gerri analyzes every tracked change against your playbook and makes a decision - accept, reject, or counterpropose - along with its reasoning and comments / counterproposal text if needed. Edits that fall outside your playbook are escalated or reassigned to the right person on your team.

You and your team then have complete control over those decisions - accept them as is or overrule them. Add or edit counterproposals directly or instruct Gerri what the counterproposal should look like. And all the changes are made directly to the contract which you can download as a DOCX file and send it back to your customer.

Use redline review when your customer has marked up your paper and sent it back.

NOTE: Redline review requires a .DOCX file with tracked changes enabled. See Redlined Files and Gerri for details on what a valid file looks like.

For a step-by-step walkthrough, see Redline Reviews.

Gerri can also review a clean (non-redlined) agreement and flag any terms that conflict with the positions in your playbook. This works whether you've received your customer's paper or want to evaluate your own contract templates. Once you've reviewed the flagged issues, Gerri can help you draft an email response to your counterparty to address the ones you want to push back on.

Use clean agreement review when your customer has supplied their own paper, or when you want to spot-check a template against your current playbook.

Clean agreement review accepts .DOCX and .PDF files.

For a step-by-step walkthrough, see Reviewing a Clean Agreement.

Gerri's behavior is driven by your playbook - a set of plain-language rules that define your company's legal positions. You can create multiple playbooks for different deal types, set a default, and choose which one to apply on a per-review basis. You can also provide custom instructions to give Gerri additional context about your risk tolerance, tone preferences, or other business-specific guidance.

Gerri will suggest new rules based on your team's past decisions, and you can add them with a single click. For guidance on setting up and managing your playbooks, see Managing Playbooks. For tips on writing effective rules, see Writing Rules for Gerri.

There are three ways to get a contract into Gerri: