You send the versions. I send back the template.
Your business units are working from five or six versions of the same agreement. They have drifted apart over years, and nobody owns the set.
Send me what is in circulation. I send back one drafted template — structured, consistent, with the conflicts between the versions resolved and the places they genuinely disagree flagged as decisions for you to make.
Your attorneys review a draft instead of writing one. Your staff answers questions instead of running a project.
The workplan
The first working session opens with a drafted template, not a project plan. This is the difference between a rewrite that finishes and one that stays on the list for three years. Nobody has to find a clear quarter to start, because the starting work is already done.
Reviews arrive bounded. Not "please review this template." What changed, what needs confirming, and the specific places your business units disagree and someone has to pick. A reviewer with nine marked decisions spends forty minutes. A reviewer with a template and a blank page spends four hours and produces scattered comments.
Two rounds, each with a date. One consolidated set of comments per round, from a named reviewer. The clock is on both of us.
Synchronization happens once, after every template in the set has cleared its second round — so a decision made in one family lands in all of them, and you are not reconciling by hand later.
The structure underneath
Every template is built on the same published structure, and the structure is ordered by who reads it. A reader can stop when the document leaves their topics.
Part of the document
Who it is for
Cover through part 3: parties, what is bought, price, term and termination
Everyone
Parts 4 through 12 — how the Work is performed, and the requirements while working
Business stakeholders
Part 13 — Representations and Warranties
Business stakeholders and legal
Parts 14 through 18 — confidentiality, IP, indemnities, insurance, general provisions
Legal
That structure is the reason a contract administrator can run the agreement without calling counsel, and the reason counsel is not reading forty pages of site access to reach the indemnities.
Your judgement is expected
Clients depart from the starting point structure. They add a Part, merge two, split one, retitle it, or move a topic somewhere their people will look for it. Those are decisions, usually good ones, made by lawyers and procurement who know their own business.
Your structure is recorded once, as yours. After that, every template in the set is built using your structure.
Scored before and after
The set is measured against my rubric before the rewrite and again when it is finished.
Before, the score is what a sponsor takes into a budget conversation. After, it is what the sponsor shows the people who approved the spend.
The playbooks
A rebuilt template is worth more with the two documents that tell your people how to use it.
The negotiation playbook. Pre-approved responsive language mapped to the redlines you actually receive — not a library of alternate clauses, because counterparties send back marked-up language, not requests to swap clause A for clause B. It tells you who can change what, what a change means, and why the original language is there.
The contract management playbook. What your team has to do after signature: the notices, cure periods, inspections, approvals and withholding decisions each template requires, with who does each one and when. Most organizations have never written this down, which is why obligations get missed by people who would have met them if anyone had told them.
What it costs
From $25K per template, less as the template set grows.