ASTERION · LEXSPHERE PRE-AWARD
Module 01 — Contract Intelligence — Pre-Award Review

Contract Intelligence — Pre-Award Review

Review of bid documentation, NDAs, MSAs and works contracts in minutes rather than days. Risk scored, clauses classified, deviations flagged, mandate alignment tracked. Know what you're signing before you sign it.

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THE PROBLEM

The teams who have to deliver a contract rarely get to see it

Contracts mostly live as static documents in a shared drive, disconnected from the operation and invisible to the people responsible for meeting the commitments inside them. What was agreed and what happens on site drift apart quietly.

Obligations get missed

Nothing tracks them in a structured way, so commitments fall through.

Risk goes unscored

Commercial and legal exposure is never quantified until it turns into a problem.

Disputes escalate

Without a live view of the agreed terms, disagreements get expensive.

70%
Reduction in manual review
Clause extraction compresses the review cycle rather than replacing the reviewer.
KEY CAPABILITIES

What LexSphere does

01

Document ingestion

Contracts, amendments and supporting documents parsed into structured data from PDF, DOCX and scanned originals.

02

Clause classification

NLP clause identification against a 62-entry clause bank covering liability, indemnity, penalties, termination, IP and payment terms, cross-referenced with your own standards.

03

Risk scoring

A 55-rule scorecard combines clause language, obligation severity and deviation from mandate into a risk position per document. It decomposes, so you can see which rule produced which score.

04

Obligation tracking

A live register of every contractual obligation with status and alerts. Binding actions are written to a hash-chained audit trail that holds up to counterparty and regulator scrutiny.

05

Deviation analysis

Terms compared side by side against your organisational standards, with anything that introduces unquantified risk flagged.

06

Amendment management

Every amendment, variation order and change instruction tracked, with version history and an impact trail.

GLOBAL STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

The frameworks this works within

FIDIC

International construction and engineering contract framework

NEC4

Collaborative contract management standard

ISO 37301

Compliance management systems

ISO 31000

Enterprise risk management framework

IACCM / WorldCC

Global contract management best practice

UNCITRAL

International trade law framework

SUITE INTEGRATION

Where it sits in the platform

AssetVault LexSphere

Asset-linked obligations trigger the maintenance and inspection requirements they imply, sourced from the live contract rather than from memory.

LexSphere SHREQ360

Contract safety requirements feed permit-to-work and the operational risk register directly.

TurnSure LexSphere

Shutdown scope and contractor agreements are cross-referenced as the scope changes, not at the end.

WHO USES LEXSPHERE

Who uses it

Contract managers

Own the obligation register, track compliance and get risk alerts without chasing them.

Legal counsel

Review extracted clauses and set the risk thresholds before anything is enforced against them.

Commercial directors

Watch contract risk at portfolio level and track exposure across every agreement.

Operations managers

See the operational obligations tied to maintenance schedules and safety requirements, in their own tools.

GET STARTED

Start with a contract diagnostic

We start with what you've already signed: an assessment of your current contract inventory, the obligations sitting inside it, and where the exposure actually is. Most organisations are surprised by at least one thing.

Know what you have before you decide what to do about it.

Calibrated to your sector

Contract types and regulatory environment differ enough that a generic review finds very little.

A risk baseline

Your highest-exposure obligations and compliance gaps, stated plainly.

A deployment plan

What happens from day one, agreed before anyone starts.