Lara a product by ET Group
Use cases

Six use cases. One review discipline.

Lara is not built for one archetype. These are six illustrative cases where teams are getting value today. In every case, the goal is the same: catch what matters, before it hurts.

01 Customizable risk criteria

Logistics & transport operators

Keeping contracts current when the law changes

Regulated industries face frequent statutory revisions. When the law changes, every active contract inherits new risk. Lara lets you update risk criteria once and re-scan every stored contract against the new baseline.

Scenario

A national logistics operator's fleet contracts, driver agreements, and freight terms sit across hundreds of counterparties. When a labor regulation is amended, the compliance team needs to know which contracts are now out of line — without reading each one.

How Lara helps

Update the risk profile once. Re-run analysis on the full contract repository using bulk reporting utility. Get the full set of contracts re-analyzed at once.

02 Risk item marking and extraction

Solo consultants & independent professionals

Contract confidence without a legal department

Independent professionals sign consulting, subcontracting, and service agreements weekly — with no legal team to review them. Lara flags the specific clauses that matter, so a non-lawyer can push back on what matters and move on from the rest.

Scenario

A management consultant receives a 22-page MSA from a new enterprise client. Buried in Section 14 is an IP-assignment clause that would hand over pre-existing methodologies. Or a contract duration that is longer that you are willing to engage in.

How Lara helps

Lara marks the clauses, categorizes them under IP and duration risk, and produces a plain-English Review Note that the consultant can raise directly with the client — no lawyer required for business risks.

04 Risk item extraction + unified contract management

Startups & IT companies

Move fast without signing bad contracts

Early-stage teams sign customer MSAs, vendor agreements, and partnership terms before hiring a general counsel. Lara gives founders and operators a repeatable review process — and keeps every signed contract in one searchable repository.

Scenario

A B2B SaaS startup is closing its first enterprise deal. The customer's procurement team sends back a heavily marked-up MSA. The founder doesn't know which of the 40 marked clauses actually matter.

How Lara helps

Lara categorizes each change by risk severity and category. The founder walks into the negotiation call with a ranked list — three critical items to push back on, twelve minor items to accept, twenty-five procedural changes that don't matter.

05 Specialized risk criteria for transaction work

M&A specialist attorneys

Faster due diligence on target contracts

M&A diligence involves reviewing dozens or hundreds of target-company contracts against a specific set of deal-critical risks — transferability, restrictive covenants or jurisdiction . Lara's risk profile can be tuned to the specific deal and applied at scale.

Scenario

A mid-market M&A attorney is running diligence on a target with 180 material contracts. The buyer cares specifically about a subset of all risks such as transferability or other deal breakers.

How Lara helps

Configure a deal-specific checklist. Bulk-analyze the contract set. Create a full list of contracts and number of high or medium risk findings. Days of associate time compressed into hours.

06 Risk criteria governance and audit trail

Listed & regulated corporates

Standardize contract review across the enterprise

Listed and regulated corporates need consistent, defensible contract review — with an audit trail regulators can inspect. Lara enforces a shared risk profile across every reviewer, records every analysis, and produces the evidence for internal audit and external inspection.

Scenario

A listed corporate has a 15-person legal function across three offices. Reviewers apply the same policy inconsistently. Audit findings flag the gap. Regulators are asking harder questions about DPA and vendor-risk documentation.

How Lara helps

One central risk profile. Every contract analyzed against it, no matter who reviews. Every analysis timestamped and archived. Internal audit and external inspection get a single, evidenced answer.

Which of these looks most like you?

Lara provides the same risk engine for all the license tiers. So, regardless of your license tier or use case — configurable risk profiles mean Lara adapts to your specific needs, not the other way round.

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