Robin expands playbooks to support smarter contract negotiations
September 24, 2025
Negotiating contracts is often the most time-consuming and resource-intensive stage of deal-making. While many legal AI tools can speed up the first review of an agreement, they typically stall once counterparty edits start piling up. That’s where Robin is changing the game.
With our latest enhancement to Robin Playbooks, legal teams can now go beyond reviewing changes to clean templates—they can respond intelligently to multiple rounds of edits, just like a seasoned lawyer would. Robin doesn’t just highlight issues. It proposes precise and minimal human-like redlines, accepts or rejects counterparty edits, and makes further drafting suggestions in line with your playbook.
Why this matters
Traditional legal AI tools are built to assist with the first pass: they flag deviations from a standard template and suggest initial edits. But once the counterparty responds with their own redlines, most tools hit a wall. Lawyers then have to jump back in manually, as these AI tools lack an understanding of how a given version of a contract fits into the negotiation cycle, and cannot handle the complexity of redlining over existing redline. Robin bridges this gap.
How it works in practice
Imagine you are a software provider, negotiating a SaaS subscription agreement. The customer, your counterparty, changes the liability cap from 1x annual fees to 3x. Robin identifies this edit, checks it against your playbook, and proposes a revised clause: “2x annual fees”—a compromise you’ve pre-approved.
Now suppose the customer pushes back again, suggesting that the software provider has “unlimited liability for data breaches.” Robin can redline it directly: “liability for data breaches is capped at 3x annual fees,” preserving your further fallback position without requiring human intervention.
With this feature, Robin not only rejects unacceptable changes but also suggests fallback wording, saving hours of back-and-forth.
What sets Robin apart
Competitors can only process edits to original templates. Robin can operate in the messier reality of edits upon edits — where real negotiations happen.
A powerful aspect of this new capability is that Robin can edit alongside you. When you make your own adjustments to a contract, Robin is able to distinguish your edits from the counterparty’s edits, ensuring it responds only where it should. This means Robin fits seamlessly into your existing workflow—supporting you without overriding your judgment or creating extra cleanup. The result is a truly collaborative drafting process, where you remain in control while Robin handles the heavy lifting of reviewing and redlining counterparty changes.
Armed with the knowledge of where in the negotiation cycle the contract is being edited and trained to work with the counterparty’s edits and add minimal redline just as a human would, Robin uniquely helps lawyers:
- Reduce the time spent on repetitive contract negotiations
- Ensure consistency with approved playbooks, and
- Focus on higher-value strategic issues rather than drafting minutiae
With Robin Playbooks, legal teams can finally scale their contract negotiations with the same precision, speed, and consistency they expect from their first-pass review.
