> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.jurisphere.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.jurisphere.ai/jurisphere-guide/handbook/commercial-transactions/overview.md).

# Overview

Commercial transactions are the steady-state workload of every corporate practice. The challenge is consistency at volume. The [Word Add-In](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/word-add-in/overview-of-the-word-add-in) and [Review Playbooks](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/word-add-in/review-playbooks) are built for exactly this.

## The shape of the work

Most corporate teams process hundreds of commercial agreements a month. Each is moderately complex; the throughput creates the bottleneck. Commercial contracts are smaller documents that live and move in Word, so the [Word Add-In](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/word-add-in/overview-of-the-word-add-in) is the centre of gravity.

* [Review Playbooks](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/word-add-in/review-playbooks) let the firm encode its ideal, fallback, and walk-away positions clause-by-clause once, and apply them through the Add-In on every incoming draft.
* [Custom Workflows](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/creating-custom-workflows) built from a prior draft replicate firm-preferred drafting structure on new contracts.
* The volume gets handled at consistent firm quality.

Senior attention concentrates on contracts that genuinely move the risk dial.

## How the work moves

A mandate moves through the stages below. The detailed walkthrough — with the tools each stage uses and the call the lawyer still owns — is on the next page.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Intake &#x26; Routing</strong></td><td>Receive document; identify type and route to the right Project.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#intake-routing">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#intake-routing</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>First-Pass Review</strong></td><td>Apply Review Playbooks via the Word Add-In for clause-level review.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#first-pass-review">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#first-pass-review</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Drafting &#x26; Redlining</strong></td><td>Generate Replace, Rewrite, Insertion, and Deletion edits inside Word.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#drafting-redlining">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#drafting-redlining</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Negotiation Rounds</strong></td><td>Redline Analysis on each counter-party return, filtered by Author and Category.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#negotiation-rounds">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#negotiation-rounds</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Execution &#x26; Filing</strong></td><td>Stamp, execute, file; archive into the Project for future negotiations.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#execution-filing">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#execution-filing</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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**The shape of the time saved.** Counsel time on the matter is a fraction of the historical norm. Firm positions are applied identically across every contract in the batch.
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