The Contract Simplification Score
Why a number
The score, criterion by criterion, against the DraftOnce rubric
The findings behind each criterion, quoting the language that produced them
The hidden gaps that are critical to close
What a rebuild would involve, and in what order
Delivered as a document you can forward without me in the room. Every finding stands on its own.
What it measures
Sixteen criteria in four groups, scored 1 to 5, weighted by contract family.
Group
What it covers
Risk Architecture
Whether the risks the scope creates are allocated, funded, enforceable and disputable
Organization
Structure, definitions, duplication and whether every provision earns its place
Writing Style
Sentence length, modern language, section length discipline, outline organization
Operational Risk
Whether an administrator can run the contract, whether every required topic is operative, industry alignment, clarity of roles
You cannot fund a problem that has no name and no number.
“Our contracts are a mess” is a complaint. It has no owner and no budget line. A 45 out of 100, broken out criterion by criterion, with the specific language behind each finding, is something you can put in a plan and carry into a budget conversation.
That is the whole purpose of scoring it. Not to grade anyone's work — the people who wrote those clauses were each solving a real problem. The purpose is to turn a condition everyone complains about into something a decision can be made about.
What you get
Each group is the mean of four criteria. The full scorecard breaks out all sixteen, with the language behind each finding.
What a rebuild looks like, if you go on to one
The reason to say this here is that a score is only useful if the work it points to is work you can actually get done.
You send me the agreements your business units are using today — the multiple versions that have drifted apart. 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. And move to the next
Your attorneys review a draft instead of writing one. Your staff answers questions instead of running a project. Nobody has to find a clear quarter to start, no one has to sideline their day job.
What it costs
ONE DOCUMENT
$17,500
How that document is built, criterion by criterion, with specific changes to close quality gaps.
A FAMILY OF UP TO SIX DOCUMENTS
$45,000
Everything with one document, plus whether your templates are working a terms that differ due to accretion and template drift rather than by design.
Fixed fee. Not an estimate. If you go on to a rebuild, half the Score fee comes off the rebuild as a credit, applied against each rewrite task order until it is used up.
Which one to choose. A single document tells you how that document is built. A family tells you something a single document cannot — whether your business units are working under terms that differ due to accretion or by design. If more than one version of a template is in circulation, the family is the one worth doing.
Who does the work?
I do. The scoring is work applied rigourously through my rubric.