Document intelligence · for the consequential
Know the document better than the person who drafted it.
A verdict in minutes. Not billable hours. Not a waiting week.
Marque reads what you're about to sign the way the firm on the other side already has — every trap, every one-sided term, how each clause compares to market, and the exact language to send back. Before you sign.
Practice areas
26
Real estate · Employment · Business · Estate
Rules engine
Pandect
Verified, dated rules — not model intuition
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The premise
The most expensive words you sign are the ones you did not read closely enough.
A waived contingency. An uncapped gap. A clause that moves unlimited risk onto you. The party who drafted the document already knows where these are. Until now, matching that preparation meant a retainer and a week.
Marque gives you the same read in minutes — so the asymmetry at the table is no longer against you.
See a live analysisReal clauses. Real consequences.
Buyer WAIVES the inspection contingency in its entirety.
You have surrendered the right to negotiate for discovered defects, reduce the price, or walk without penalty. Market standard: a 7–14 day inspection period with full refund rights. This offers none.
In your favor
Buyer shall have 10 days from acceptance to conduct inspections. Agreement is voidable at Buyer's option for any reason during this period, with full return of earnest money.
Buyer shall pay any difference between appraised value and purchase price.
If the property appraises at $900,000 and you agreed to $1,050,000, you owe $150,000 in additional cash at closing — with no ceiling and no right to walk. An appraisal cap is standard and negotiable.
In your favor
Buyer's obligation under this section shall not exceed $[25,000]. If the appraised value falls short of the purchase price by more than this cap, Buyer may terminate and receive a full refund.
Earnest money is non-refundable except as expressly provided.
Read every contingency carefully against this single clause. The industry baseline is a deposit that is refundable while any contingency is open. This inverts that default — the deposit is non-refundable unless a specific exception applies.
In your favor
Earnest money shall be refunded to Buyer in full upon timely exercise of any contingency right, failure of any condition, or Seller default.
The method
Not a chatbot with a law degree. A four-pass instrument.
Every analysis passes through a deterministic pipeline before a single finding reaches you. The sequence is the guarantee — and it is what distinguishes a verified finding from a model guess.
Identify
Marque classifies your document across 11 practice areas — automatically. Purchase agreement, term sheet, equity grant, prenuptial agreement, estate plan, commercial lease — each domain applies its own analytical lens calibrated to the specific instruments and traps that arise in that area of law.
11 domains · automatic classification
Pandect
Before the model reads a single clause, the document is matched against Pandect — a corpus of verified, anchored legal rules and market benchmarks cited to primary sources with effective dates. Not model intuition, not a general knowledge base. Verified rules, traceable to source.
Anchored to primary sources · dated · jurisdiction-aware
Close analysis
Every clause is read against what is customary in the market for that instrument type. Adverse terms are flagged using the exact language they appear in your document. Risk is scored 0–100. Nothing is paraphrased. Nothing is invented. The finding cites your text.
Verbatim citations · 0–100 risk score · market benchmarks
Grounding guard
A separate validation pass strips any concrete figure — date, dollar amount, interest rate, deadline — that the model emits but that is not present in your document. The report states only what your document actually says. This is structural, not a best-effort check.
Strips ungrounded figures · structurally enforced
The close read
Watch it read a purchase agreement the way the firm on the other side would.
- 7.1 Buyer shall deposit earnest money with escrow within 3 days.
- 7.2 Buyer WAIVES the inspection contingency in its entirety.
- 8.1 Closing on or before the date set in escrow instructions.
- 9.3 Buyer shall pay any difference between appraised value and price.
- 12.1 Earnest money is non-refundable except as expressly provided.
- 14.0 Each party bears its own costs except as stated herein.
Bottom line: don't sign as-is. Two terms put your deposit and tens of thousands of dollars at avoidable risk.
No inspection out — you can't renegotiate or walk for defects.
In your favorRestore a 7-day inspection period with a full refund.
Uncapped appraisal gap — unlimited cash due on a low appraisal.
In your favorCap the gap at a number you can fund; cancel above it.
Narrow refund triggers put your deposit at real risk.
In your favorMake the deposit refundable while contingencies are live.
Every finding is tied to the exact words on your page. Marque is an analyst, not a law firm — it does not provide legal advice.
The Marque report
A firm's read on your deal, delivered as four returns.
The verdict
Risk score · band · one-line bottom line
A 0–100 deal-risk score and a one-line position — sign, negotiate these specific terms, or walk — in the time it takes to read this sentence. The read your judgment wants before you look at anything else.
What works against you
Verbatim citations · severity tiers · Pandect-verified
Every one-sided clause, trap, and short fuse, each tied to the exact language it rests on — copied verbatim from your document, not paraphrased. Each finding cites the section number, the clause, and the Pandect rule that classifies it.
How it compares to market
Market standard · jurisdiction-aware · per-term benchmarks
Each notable term measured against the verified, anchored market standard for that instrument type and jurisdiction. You see whether you are being asked for the customary — or for considerably more than it, and by how much.
The words to negotiate
Redline inserts · leverage analysis · advisor brief
Not only what is wrong: the language to send back, where your leverage sits, a fallback position, and a copy-paste advisor brief that makes your attorney's first hour count double — by handing them the priority issues and the suggested redlines.
Example · Purchase & Sale Agreement · § 9.3
AggressiveOriginal clause
Buyer shall pay any difference between the appraised value and the purchase price.
In your favor
Buyer's obligation is capped at $[___]. Agreement is voidable by Buyer if appraised value falls short by more than such cap.
The issue
An uncapped appraisal gap demands unlimited cash at closing if the property appraises low. Pandect §RE-APR-02 confirms a cap is negotiable and market-standard in most jurisdictions.
The remit
The instruments that decide money, family, and future. Marque classifies your document automatically — or you can direct it to a specific domain.
Real estate
The instruments that control property — price, risk, and what you actually own.
- Purchase & sale agreement
The contract that controls your home purchase — price, contingencies, who pays for what, and the deadlines that can cost you your deposit.
- Seller property disclosure
What the seller is (and isn't) telling you about the property's condition — and the gaps that should drive your inspection and questions.
- Home inspection report
What the inspector actually found, what's cosmetic vs. costly, and exactly what to ask the seller to fix or credit.
- Title report & commitment
What you're really buying — the liens, easements, and exceptions on title that survive your purchase unless you act.
- HOA & CC&R documents
The rules, fees, and financial health of the association you're buying into — including the special-assessment risk no one volunteers.
- Mortgage & loan estimate
What the loan really costs — the rate, the padded fees you can shop or cut, and the terms that bite later.
- Commercial lease
Office, retail, or industrial leases — where the headline rent hides CAM, escalations, and a personal guaranty.
Employment & equity
Offers and equity agreements — compensation, exit terms, and the restrictive covenants that follow you out the door.
- Employment offer & contract
Your offer letter or executive agreement — comp, equity, at-will fine print, and the clauses that follow you out the door.
- Equity grant (options / RSUs)
Stock options, RSUs, and grant agreements — vesting, exercise windows, and the fine print that decides what your equity is worth.
- Severance & separation
What you're being asked to sign away on the way out — and the leverage you still have before you do.
- Non-compete & restrictive covenants
Non-compete, non-solicit, and confidentiality terms that decide where you can work next — and whether they're even enforceable.
Business & investments
Entity, investment, and M&A documents — control, distributions, and how money actually moves.
- Private investment terms
PPMs, fund subscriptions, SAFEs, and term sheets — the fees, preferences, and lock-ups that decide your real return.
- Operating / shareholder agreement
LLC, partnership, and shareholder agreements — control, distributions, and how you can (or can't) ever get out.
- Business purchase / sale
Buying or selling a company — earnouts, reps & warranties, indemnities, and the holdback that can claw money back.
- Loan, note & personal guarantee
Loan agreements, promissory notes, and personal guarantees — the rate and terms, the events of default, and exactly what you are personally on the hook for.
- Securities subscription & side letter
Subscription agreements and side letters tied to an offering — the commitment, the investor representations, and the terms that bind you into a private placement.
- Commercial / vendor contract
MSAs, SOWs, and service agreements — liability caps, IP ownership, auto-renewals, and termination traps.
- Non-disclosure agreement
Mutual or one-way NDAs — what counts as confidential, how long it binds you, and the terms that overreach.
Estate & family
Estate-planning instruments and marital agreements — who inherits, who controls, and whether the plan actually works.
- Estate plan (will / trust)
Wills, trusts, and powers of attorney — whether they actually do what you intend, and the gaps that cause probate fights.
- Estate-tax-sensitive instrument
Trusts and estate instruments where transfer-tax exposure is implicated — the state-law overlay and every tax threshold shown only as a verified, dated rule, never a number Marque computes.
- Prenup / marital agreement
Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements — what each spouse keeps, waives, and whether it will actually hold up.
- Divorce settlement
Marital settlement and custody agreements — property division, support, and the terms that are hard to undo later.
Disputes & risk
- Legal notice or claim
Demand letters, lawsuits, and settlement offers — what's really being claimed, your real exposure, and the clock that's running.
- Tax notice or audit
IRS and state notices — what they actually want, whether they're even right, and the deadline to respond before it hardens.
- Insurance policy or claim
Umbrella, life, disability, and liability policies — what's actually covered, the exclusions that bite, and denied-claim leverage.
- Complex insurance policy (D&O, umbrella, key-person)
High-limit, rule-dense policies — D&O, umbrella/excess, and key-person — where coverage turns on exclusions, conditions, and limits read against the verified rule, not a guess.
The difference
What sets this apart from every alternative.
vs. waiting for outside counsel
$400–$800/hr → flat fee
Without Marque
Days or weeks. $400–$800 per hour, billed from first contact. A document you may have already partially committed to.
With Marque
A complete analysis in minutes, at a flat per-document fee. Delivered before you negotiate a single word or agree to anything.
vs. a free AI tool
Intuition → verified rules
Without Marque
Model intuition about what is customary. No verified rules. Hallucinated figures — dates, amounts, deadlines — that may not appear anywhere in your document.
With Marque
Pandect-verified market standards. A structural grounding guard that strips any figure not present in your document. Every finding tied to your exact clause language.
vs. signing and hoping
Unsigned = negotiable
Without Marque
The counterparty's attorney already read it this way. They know exactly where the traps are. That asymmetry is the whole transaction.
With Marque
Unsigned documents can be renegotiated. Signed ones cannot. The question is only which side walks into that negotiation prepared.
We answer to you. No one else.
The only interest at this table is yours.
No agent's commission, no lender's spread, no referral fee, no data broker. You pay Marque, and Marque reads the paper for you — full stop. That independence is not a feature; it is the architecture of the product.
Who pays
You, and only you.
No commission, referral fee, or third-party influence — by construction.
What we are not
Your attorney or a law firm.
An analyst who tells you exactly when to bring one in, and what to ask.
Your document
Read once, then discarded.
No storage path. Never sold. Never used to train anything.
The floor
The verdict is always free.
See the risk score and bottom line before you pay for anything.
When you pay Marque to read your contract, you fund Plainsight — the same engine, given free to those who cannot afford it. A firm built to put the weaker party on equal footing is precisely the one you can trust to represent only your side.
What changes
Leverage goes to whoever understood the document first. That party was never you. Until now.
A waived inspection contingency. An uncapped appraisal gap. A non-refundable deposit with thin carve-outs. A 90-day exercise window that quietly wipes out years of vested options. The counterparty's attorney spotted each one on the first pass.
Marque closes that information gap in the minutes before you decide. The preparation that used to require a retainer and a week now takes the length of an espresso.
The full methodRisk score
0–100
A number that tells you where to stand before you sign anything.
Practice areas
26
From residential purchase to securities offerings to estate instruments.
Independence
No commission. No spread. No referral. No training.
You pay Marque. Marque reads for you. Full stop.
The standard
A top firm's preparation, at a fraction of the hour.
See the verdict and risk score on any document at no cost. Unlock the full report — every finding, the benchmarks, and the negotiation playbook — for the matter in front of you, or for all of them. Stated plainly. Never billed by the six-minute increment.
Free
$0
The verdict and risk score. Every document. Every time.
Begin an analysis- Document type + verdict
- 0–100 risk score and band
- Issue, deadline & negotiation-point count
- Plain-language summary
Single report
$100
One document. $200 for 100pp+. Advisor letter +$100.
See pricing- Every finding with verbatim clause language
- Market benchmark (Pandect-verified)
- Full negotiation playbook + redlines
- Deadlines & contingency windows — always surfaced
- Copy-paste advisor brief for your attorney
Counsel
Recommended$1,000
per month. 16 Tier-1 credits included monthly.
Start Counsel- 16 credits / month (16 full reports)
- Additional credits at $75 each
- Advisor letter at +1 credit, not extra cash
- Subscriber rate on securities & counsel-review tier
- Cancel anytime
The tier and exact price for your specific document — including page count — are shown before you commit. Securities & counsel-review tier →
Questions
The things people ask before they begin.
Is this legal advice?
No. Marque is your analyst — it decodes documents, benchmarks terms against verified market standards, and shows you exactly what to negotiate and how. It is not a law firm and using it creates no attorney–client relationship. When your situation needs a licensed attorney, Marque tells you plainly, explains why, and tells you what to ask them.
What happens to my document?
It is read once to produce your report and then discarded. Never stored, never sold, never used to train any model. This is confirmed in the Terms and is structural — the processing pipeline has no write path to persistent storage.
What is Pandect?
Pandect is the verified-rules layer underneath Marque's analysis. It contains anchored legal standards and market benchmarks cited to primary sources with effective dates, so findings are grounded in what the law and market practice actually say — not what a model estimates. When Pandect has a verified rule for a term, that rule governs the finding.
How long does an analysis take?
A Tier-1 report on a 20–50 page document typically takes two to four minutes. The risk score and verdict appear as soon as analysis completes; the full report follows. Longer documents take proportionally longer. The price and expected time are shown on the upload screen before you commit.
What document types are outside Marque's scope?
Tax returns and tax-planning documents, litigation filings (complaints, motions, court orders, settlements), and family-court documents are outside Marque's scope. Marque will tell you this directly rather than attempt an analysis on a document it cannot serve reliably.
Can I share the report with my attorney?
Yes — and this is intentional. Every full report includes an advisor brief written specifically for that handoff: a structured summary your attorney uses to orient their review, surface the priority issues immediately, and make their time count rather than re-reading from scratch. The brief is copy-paste ready.
Do not sign the most important document of your year on faith.
Get the verdict, the risks, the exact benchmarks, and the language to negotiate — in minutes. The full read before you decide anything.