Sell · Tech & Commercial
Customer sent a contract? Read it against the company.
Draft, review and negotiate supported commercial agreements with the product, data, IP and existing company commitments in view—not as a PDF floating by itself.
Commercial, privacy and regulated-data issues can be jurisdiction- and industry-sensitive. Contract-specific legal judgment may require attorney review.
Direct answer
A contract is a new promise layered onto old promises.
A startup contract review should not stop at whether a clause is market-standard in isolation. The practical question is whether the new agreement fits the company's product, data flows, IP ownership, pricing model and existing commitments. That company-context layer is the core Solvd difference.
What Solvd handles
The legal side of getting customers and vendors signed.
SaaS agreements
Draft or review supported subscription terms and related order-form structure.
MSAs
Work through customer/vendor master terms, risk allocation and commercial obligations.
DPAs
Route data-processing terms from the actual product/data relationship.
BAAs
Handle supported healthcare-data contracting only where the product facts and service model fit.
EULAs + licensing
Connect product and software rights to the company's actual IP and distribution model.
Vendor + customer paper
Review supported third-party terms against company obligations and practical business goals.
Company-context proof
The risky clause may be the one that conflicts with something you already signed.
- New MSA contains exclusivity languageNew agreement
- Connected customer / licensing commitments availableCompany context
- Potential conflict or dependency surfacedReview next
The contract should be reviewed against relevant company commitments and product/data facts, not as an isolated document.
What Solvd checks
Contract text + company facts.
- Product / service model
- IP ownership and licensing dependencies
- Relevant data flows and roles
- Existing customer/vendor commitments
- Commercial terms, renewals and termination mechanics
- Terms that require attorney judgment or specialized compliance review
Before / Next
The signed contract should become ongoing company context.
Founder questions
Contract questions should route to the actual business facts.
Do we need a SaaS agreement or an MSA?
It depends on how the company sells, whether it uses order forms or statements of work, and how product, service, support and risk terms are structured. Many SaaS companies use an MSA or SaaS agreement plus order forms; the right architecture is business-specific.
When does a startup need a DPA?
A DPA can be relevant when a customer/vendor relationship involves processing personal data and the applicable privacy framework or customer contract requires data-processing terms. The answer depends on data flows, roles, location and governing law.
Can Solvd just redline the PDF?
The product thesis is broader than isolated redlining: the useful check is whether a proposed term conflicts with what the company has already promised, what its product/data reality supports, or what another agreement requires.
When should a lawyer review a customer contract?
Attorney review is useful when the contract introduces meaningful legal judgment, non-standard risk allocation, regulated-data issues, IP/licensing concerns, unusual exclusivity, or company-specific conflicts that a standard workflow cannot safely resolve.
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