AI Contract Review for Talent Agencies

Your agency secures a brand deal. The commercial terms are agreed. The campaign is ready to launch.

Then the brand sends its agreement. It is 35 to 50 pages. It includes indemnities, exclusivity, usage rights, morality clauses, IP transfer language, payment timing, and termination provisions.

Now the deal pauses while someone figures out what it actually says.

For talent agencies handling frequent brand partnerships or talent representation agreements, this is a recurring operational problem. You either:

• Skim and move forward, accepting risk you may not fully understand
• Send every agreement to outside counsel

There is another approach: run every contract through an AI contract review engine like goHeather as a first pass before escalating anything.

What “First Pass” Means in Practice

goHeather is AI contract review software built for business teams. It works inside Microsoft Word or via PDF upload.

When a brand agreement arrives, your team can:

• Upload the contract
• Instantly receive issue spotting and risk explanations and suggested changes vs playbooks, the common law and industry standards
• See findings ordered by risk level
• Accept or customize redlines directly in Word
• Export annotations, abstracts and proposed changes to the other side

This is not legal advice. It is structured legal information: issue identification in plain english so your team understands what it is signing.

Where Talent Agencies Commonly Face Risk

Usage Rights

Brand agreements often request:

• Perpetual rights
• Global usage for limited campaigns
• Paid amplification rights
• Whitelisting access

goHeather identifies overbroad usage clauses and explains their impact in plain English. If the contract grants unlimited usage without additional compensation, that is flagged.

Exclusivity

Exclusivity language can be drafted broadly enough to restrict future revenue.

Examples include:

• Undefined product categories
• Long exclusivity periods
• Global restrictions tied to short campaigns

goHeather highlights the scope, duration, and territory of exclusivity so your team can assess commercial impact before signing.

Indemnification and Liability

Brand-drafted contracts frequently:

• Shift liability entirely to the talent and agency
• Include uncapped liability
• Expand warranties beyond campaign scope

goHeather flags one-sided indemnities and unlimited caps and explains what they mean in context.

Payment Terms

Payment timing is often buried in dense language. Net-90 terms, vague approval triggers, and conditional payment structures are identified and ranked by risk level.

If your agency standard is Net-30 or defined milestone payments, deviations are easy to spot with our playbook red light green light system.

Standardizing Review with Playbooks

High-volume talent agencies often review the same contract type over and over again.

goHeather allows you to create Playbooks in two minutes. A Playbook can encode your agency rules, for example:

• No perpetual usage without additional fee
• No exclusivity beyond defined product category
• No IP transfer before payment
• No unlimited liability

Once created, every new contract is checked against those rules automatically.

This reduces inconsistency across account managers and protects commission structures.

Designed for Operational Teams

goHeather is built for business operations teams, like agency owners, agents or agency finance teams.

goHeather is perfect for agencies, and we have many agencies as customers, because agencies love goHeather purpose-built features:

• Red light and green light issue indicators
• Risk scoring
• Clause-by-clause explanations and suggested changes
• Word redlining
• PDF redline suggestions
• Built-in AI chat for clause explanation or drafting

Why Talent Agencies Use This Workflow

Agencies handling frequent brand deals need:

• Faster turnaround
• Reduced external legal spend
• Visibility into risk before signing
• Consistent internal standards

Using AI like goHeather as a first pass allows your team to isolate specific clauses that need negotiation or lawyer review instead of forwarding entire agreements by default.

Who This Is For

Talent agencies that:

• Manage multiple brand contracts per month
• Represent influencers, creators, athletes, or speakers
• Want structured contract review without hiring full-time legal staff
• Need to move quickly without signing away future revenue

If contract review is slowing your brand deal cycle, a first-pass AI review provides operational clarity before you escalate to legal.