Start with the business ask
Capture the deal, owner, deadline, current draft, and the terms that matter.
Lodge for legal teams
Review the contract without losing the business request.
Keep the business request, current draft, issue list, discussion, and approved position together. The signed contract stays in your contract system.
The tools already in the job 
Google Drive
Notion
Slack
Google Drive Notion SlackReview the right version
Compare language, build the issue list, and keep every comment attached to the current draft.
Keep the decision with the clause
Record the accepted position, who approved it, and why the tradeoff was worth making.
One Lodge project
The repository keeps the signed contract. Lodge keeps how you got there.
The intake, current draft, issue list, business discussion, and counsel’s final position stay connected without turning Lodge into the contract repository.
- Request Vendor agreement · v7
Business goal, current draft, owner, and deadline
- Review Open issues
Clause, risk, proposed language, and decision owner
- Decision Approved position
Final tradeoff, approver, and reason
What it looks like
Review a vendor agreement without losing the business context.
Legal and the business work from the same request, the same draft, and the same list of unresolved terms.
- 01 · Open
Open the matter
Add the business goal, current contract, owner, deadline, and known concerns.
- 02 · Review
Build the issue list
Counsel or AI compares the draft with the standards and precedents you provide.
- 03 · Resolve
Resolve the tradeoffs
Counsel and the business owner approve the position and keep the reason with it.
Where people decide
AI can find the issues. Counsel owns the position.
Lodge does not give legal advice, accept terms, sign a contract, or replace the controlled copy. Counsel reviews and approves the position.