Use Cases
Sales Team Contract Compliance Without Legal Review
Sales teams send contracts. Legal is not always in the loop until something goes wrong. A sales rep finds a template, edits what they understand, deletes a clause they think is optional, and sends it. The counterparty comes back with their own changes. Legal finds out when something is already wrong.
The problem
The GC at a 200-person B2B SaaS company is reviewing approximately three to five contracts a week that should never have reached them. Standard NDAs. Routine MSAs for deals under $100K. Contracts where the sales rep changed a deadline or deleted a clause they did not understand and the whole document needs to be redone.
This is not a sales problem. Sales is doing what any reasonable person does when they need a contract: they find a template and use it. The problem is that the template has no guardrails. There is no system that tells the sales rep what they cannot change. There is no system that catches the deletion before it reaches the counterparty.
The GC becomes the safety net by default, reviewing contracts they should not need to touch.
How Lexnus solves it
Legal builds the playbook once
The GC or Legal Ops team encodes the organisation's standards into a Lexnus playbook: which clauses are required in every NDA, what the maximum liability cap is for deals under a certain value, what governing law applies, what notice periods are acceptable. These rules are written in plain language and published.
Once published, the rules are enforced automatically. The GC does not need to check every contract against them. Lexnus does.
Sales generates contracts from approved clauses
When a sales rep needs an NDA or MSA, they open Lexnus and describe the deal: counterparty name, contract value, governing law, deal type. Lexnus selects the right clauses from the approved library, applies the right variation based on deal context, and assembles a compliant DOCX.
The sales rep did not write the contract. They described the deal. The contract was assembled from clauses their GC approved. Nothing else got in.
Deals that need legal involvement are routed automatically
If a deal exceeds a value threshold, or if a counterparty requests terms that deviate from the standard, Lexnus routes the specific item to legal for approval. The sales rep knows immediately that this deal needs a legal sign-off and what specifically is at issue. Legal reviews the exception, not the whole contract.
Counterparty paper goes through analysis before anyone commits
If the counterparty sends their own paper, the sales rep uploads it to Lexnus before reviewing it. Analysis runs against the playbook. If it passes, the sales rep knows. If it has violations, they see exactly what is wrong before they start negotiating, and they have the approved alternative clause ready to propose.
What this changes
Before Lexnus: Sales generates from templates with no guardrails. Contracts go out with deleted clauses and wrong liability caps. Legal reviews everything because there is no other safety net. Every routine deal takes longer than it should.
With Lexnus: Sales generates from approved clauses only. Standard deals do not need legal review. Non-standard deals are flagged automatically with the specific issue. Legal reviews exceptions, not every contract. The same violations stop recurring because the system catches them before the document leaves.
What legal retains
Legal retains full control. The playbook governs everything. Sales cannot override rules, cannot use unapproved clauses, and cannot send a contract that Lexnus has flagged as non-compliant without an explicit approval from the designated reviewer. The system enforces this. It is not a recommendation.
Legal also retains full visibility. Every contract generated, every analysis run, and every approval decision is logged in the Lexnus repository. The GC can see exactly what sales has been sending at any time.
Who this is for
General Counsel at scaling B2B companies where sales volume is growing faster than the legal team's capacity to review every contract.
Legal Ops teams building self-service contract processes for business users who want to move fast without creating risk.
Sales leaders who want their team to close deals faster and stop waiting on legal for routine paperwork.