01 — Pre-Contract
IAIL Signal
What will you carry if you sign this contract?
Signal reviews the vendor contract before you commit. It tells you exactly what liability you would inherit at signature and gives your legal team the redlines to negotiate it down. Speed without exposure. Leverage without delay.
Timeline
Five working days
Output
GC-ready redline pack
Scope
One vendor contract
The Problem This Moment Creates
Procurement moves slower than AI
By the time legal finishes vetting, the technology has moved, the business has already started, and the contract reflects neither. You need a way to let procurement move at the speed the business needs without inheriting the liability that comes with moving without governance.
Standard legal due diligence reviews a contract for general commercial adequacy. It was not designed to assess AI-specific liability. Signal applies a published AI-specific framework — 13 mandatory clause families, eight pre-contract Stop Conditions, and a Use-Case Criticality overlay — to every contract reviewed.
Detail
How Signal works
The IAIL Standard Contract Schedule: 13 mandatory clause families. Each assessed as Red (do not sign without board disclosure), Amber (proceed with documented remediation plan), or Green (acceptable). Eight pre-contract Stop Conditions. Use-Case Criticality. Indemnity symmetry. AI-specific failure allocation (hallucination, accuracy degradation, autonomous error, model change). Deletion obligation scope against the full AI Data Persistence Taxonomy. Regulatory exposure at signature, jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Negotiation leverage available.
A redline pack with clause-level negotiation positions for every identified gap. A risk profile scoring the contract across 13 clause families. A Negotiation Priority List identifying which gaps are negotiable and what the escalation position is if the vendor will not move. A pre-contract governance record demonstrating that structured AI liability due diligence was conducted before signature. All of it GC-ready and immediately actionable.
Signal findings feed directly into IAIL Assurance. If the contract is signed, the Signal assessment becomes the pre-contract baseline against which the post-contract Assurance assessment measures gap movement. Signal findings also inform IAIL Monitor trigger thresholds for the relationship.
Before signing any new AI vendor contract. Before renewing an existing relationship where AI has been introduced since the last contract. Before approving a vendor where the product includes AI features. Any time you want to know what you would carry before you commit.
Next Step
Know before you sign
Signal covers one vendor contract. Five working days. GC-ready output.