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A version for every send, and for every signature
Each time a contract is sent, and each time it is signed, the words are snapshotted with a hash of the exact text. A signature binds to that hash, never to the contract as a moving object. Move the words and the signature is void, with a re-sign waiting.
The model underneathAccepting is not signing
Two separate records, not two values of one status field. A signature cannot exist without an acceptance by the same party on the same words. A contract can sit fully accepted and wholly unsigned, and the product draws it as one.
The two acts, kept apartWords move on unanimity
Nobody writes clause text directly: not a person, not a key, not an agent. A proposal names the block, the words before and after, and a reason. The other side answers it, and only then do the words move.
Redlines and the roomLex reports what it found
Lex drafts, proposes and explains. It says what it found and where, and makes no claim to have understood. It never sends and never signs, and no setting changes that.
What Lex doesGoverning law is a list
A contract names legal units, not countries, and may name several: law and forum can differ, and a schedule can carry its own. The picker names the place. It does not say what the law of that place requires, because that is advice and this product does not give it.
Every governing lawStart with a template
Kinds from the catalogue that fit this desk.
- Two-way confidentiality agreementIn the libraryBoth sides expect to hear things they should not repeat, so both sides promise.
- Data handling agreement, globalIn the libraryThe same job as the US data contract, written for work that crosses borders — the version a European customer usually asks for.
- Settlement agreementThe contract that ends a dispute on agreed terms: what is paid or done, what each side gives up, and what may be said about it.
- Amendment agreementA short contract that changes an existing contract: which clauses move, what they now say, and what stays exactly as it was.
- Termination agreementEnding a contract by agreement rather than by notice: the last day, what is still owed, and which terms carry on.
- Shareholders' agreementHow the owners of a company deal with each other: decisions, share transfers, information rights and what happens on an exit.
Governing law this desk often names: England and Wales, Delaware, New York, Singapore — or several at once. Every governing law.
Read the record it keeps by making one.
The other side never pays and never makes an account.
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