Robin AI's Review module is designed to help turbocharge contract negotiations. Review’s Version History feature allows you to see all of the historic versions of a contract throughout a negotiation, from the first round to the last.
Our version history feature works a little differently than other editor tools. We view the different versions of a contract through the lens of which side of a negotiation ‘holds the pen’ — That is, which party made a round of edits. We do not simply log every edit, but take a more nuanced, ‘adversarial-based’ approach. Our version history feature instead tracks the changes made to a contract after each round of negotiation.
To view a contract’s version history, click the See History button in the navbar above the contract. A version history timeline will appear in the sidebar, where you can explore and view all of the different versions of your contract.
A standard negotiation starts in Robin when you receive a contract from your counterparty. When you upload the contract to Robin, this is the original version. This is the counterparty’s initial version, most likely with their preferred language.
When you begin to mark up the contract, it changes from being the counterparty’s version to being your version, that is — from the original version to the current version. All of the redline changes you make to the contract are yours, and thus grouped together in this version. This way, you can see how the contract has changed between when you received the contract and when you finished marking up the contract and sent it back.
When you upload a contract to Review, the platform is able to automatically tell if a contract is a new version of a previously encountered contract. Review will always know whether the contract has been seen by the platform before.
When you reupload the contract the counterparty sent you, Review will recognise the contract and add the contract as a new version. This allows us to not only keep track of your changes, but your counterparty’s as well (even if they are using a different word processor), giving you a full picture of the negotiation.
You can download current and any prior versions of a contract.
