A contract review platform, not a black box.

What Lara does

Lara analyzes contracts across a large number of contract types — including NDAs, consulting, outsourcing, product sales, Intellectual Property & Copyright, subcontracting, VC term sheets, and shareholding agreements. Some contract types are added on request by onboarding customers. For each type, Lara produces a structured, multi-dimensional risk report: clauses categorized by risk area, ranked by severity, and accompanied by plain-English Review Notes that explain why each flag matters.

The multi-dimensional model looks at contracts along several orthogonal axes: whether critical protections exist at all, how comprehensively they are drafted, and how strong or weak the specific language is against your risk profile. This is not a single "risk score" that hides its reasoning. It's a structured breakdown that a reviewer can use as a basis for discussions with a business partner, an auditor, or a regulator.

Every risk flag Lara raises is recorded — clause reference, risk category, severity, and the Review Note that goes with it. The full history lives in the contract record, so a reviewer, a manager, or an auditor can always ask "why was this flagged?" and get a defensible answer.

Selected scoring criteria you care about are configurable at onboarding, so the analysis reflects your risk appetite or profile, not a generic default. Where your business evolves and the calibration needs a change, we handle it for you.

Built for the way legal teams actually work

Lara was built by an ex-KPMG Tokyo team with hands-on experience of the contract review workflow in large-organisation legal departments. Our venture advisory experience has provided the backdrop for designing the workflow for the startups and SMEs. The Lead Architect was the head of Contract Compliance Services and M&A for Risk Advisory in KPMG Japan, and the Legal content is reviewed by an Indian corporate advocate to ensure the platform serves the reality of contract practice in two of Asia's largest markets.

The result is a product that fits into existing review processes rather than replacing them. Lara does not sign contracts. It does not give legal advice. It surfaces the risks that matter, so the humans making the decisions do so with better information.

Jurisdiction-aware compliance

Data protection and privacy compliance is not a single global standard — it is a set of jurisdictional frameworks that trigger different obligations depending on where your data subjects live, where your vendors process data, and how your contracts allocate responsibility. Lara's Legal Regulatory Compliance layer is jurisdiction-aware:

• DPDP — India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
• APPI — Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information
• GDPR — EU General Data Protection Regulation

Lara knows which framework applies to which contracting party and flags mismatches — a common source of vendor-risk findings during internal audit.

Adaptive to your risk profile

Every organisation has its own risk appetite. A B2B SaaS company signing customer MSAs cares about different clauses than an M&A attorney running diligence on 180 target contracts, or a listed corporate standardising review across 15 in-house reviewers. Lara's risk profile is configurable per organisation, per user, per contract type. Set it once. Apply it consistently. Update as your business evolves.

What Lara does not do

Lara does not provide legal advice. It does not draft contracts. It does not act as a substitute for counsel. What it does is assist with prevention of errors of omission and commission, make expert reviewers faster and give non-lawyer operators a repeatable framework for the review work they were doing anyway — often on their laptops at 11pm, alone.