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PR-03/Sample analyses

What a finding
looks like.

One worked example, built from a fictional contract, so you can judge the format before you pay.

Illustrative example. The document, company, clauses and findings below are invented for this page. They are not from a real customer or a real contract, and they are not a promise of what Prism will find in yours.

PR-03.1/Finding

A high-risk clause, flagged and redlined.

Illustrative example · fictional document
Acme Series Seed · SAFE — 1.5M cap.docx
6 FINDINGS SHOWN · SAMPLE
High risk § 7.2 · IP ASSIGNMENT

Counterparty claims ownership of all derivative work, including pre-existing IP.

Market standard for an advisor SAFE side-letter limits IP assignment to deliverables created during the engagement. As written, the clause covers anything you've built "prior to or during" — which sweeps up your codebase. Recommend renegotiating before signing.

Counterparty shall own all Intellectual Property created at any time prior to or during Intellectual Property created during, and specifically for, the engagement, excluding pre-existing materials and any general-purpose tooling, and delivered under this Agreement.
REDLINE · INLINE COMMENT
PR-03.2/Behind the finding

The rule, and the summary.

Findings come from rules in your playbook. The example above would be triggered by a rule like this one (also fictional):

RULE  ip-assignment-scope
WHEN  a clause assigns intellectual property to the counterparty
THEN  flag HIGH unless scope is limited to deliverables created
      during the engagement and pre-existing materials are excluded

The Markdown summary lists findings by severity. An excerpt for the same fictional document:

# Acme Series Seed · SAFE — summary (illustrative example)

## High
- § 3.2  Most-favored-nation overreach
- § 7.2  IP assignment scope unbounded — limit to deliverables created
         during the engagement; exclude pre-existing materials

## Medium
- § 1.4  Conversion trigger ambiguous
- § 5.1  Information rights asymmetric

## Low
- § 4.3  Pro-rata language standard
- § 9.1  Notice address typo

You get this for your own contracts, against your own playbook.