The Clment Rulebook

When you run a review without selecting one of your own rulebooks (sometimes known as playbooks), Clment doesn’t fall back to a bland, one-size-fits-all pass. If your contract is a recognised type, it’s reviewed against the Clment Rulebook for that type — our own review standard, tailored to what actually matters for that kind of contract.

On the review setup screen it appears as Clment Rulebook, where the No Rulebook option used to be, with the contract type named in the description beneath it.

Why it’s better than a generic review

A generic AI pass reads the contract well but treats every document the same. The Clment Rulebook knows the difference between contract types:

• A services agreement gets scrutiny on scope, deliverables, acceptance and termination-for-convenience.
• An NDA gets scrutiny on definition of confidential information, term, and permitted disclosures.
• A lease gets scrutiny on rent review, repair obligations and break rights.

It’s also tuned to the governing law in play — so a UK-governed contract is reviewed with a UK lens, not a generic international one — and it reflects the negotiating posture and side you’ve chosen for the review.

The result is sharper, more relevant findings: the things a specialist would look for in this contract, flagged the way they’d flag them.

You get it with zero setup

There’s nothing to build. Upload a contract, run a review, and — as long as the contract is classified to a known type — the Clment Rulebook is already selected for you. It’s included; you don’t author it and you don’t maintain it — Clment does that, and keeps it current.

You can still add review instructions for a specific run on top of it — “focus on liability and indemnity” or “this is a renewal, flag anything that changed” — the same way you would with any rulebook.

When you’ll see “No rulebook” instead

The Clment Rulebook needs to know what kind of contract it’s looking at. If a document can’t be confidently classified to a known contract type — or it isn’t really a contract — the option stays as plain “No rulebook” and the review runs on the general engine. Everything still works; it just can’t tailor to a type it can’t name.

Should I still write my own rulebook?

The Clment Rulebook is an excellent default and, for many contracts, all you need. Write your own rulebook when you want the review to enforce your house position — your specific liability caps, your standard wording, the variations you don’t care about, the deal-breakers you never accept. Your rulebook captures preferences that are unique to your team; the Clment Rulebook captures what’s standard for the contract type.

When you select one of your own rulebooks, that’s what the review uses — your rulebook stands on its own and the Clment Rulebook steps aside for that run.

See also

• Reviewing contracts
• Creating a rulebook — build your own house-position template.
• Choosing a review strategy
• Understanding finding verdicts