Turn markups into issues lists - instantly

Save hours, avoid frustration, leverage technology

Simply choose your options, upload your documents, and download the report

A marked up document becoming an attractive issues list

Issues lists have a million uses!

Here are some of our favourites:

Manage to completion

Capture the full list of matters to be agreed at the beginning of a transaction, and track them through to resolution (sometimes called a 'blocking list').

Organize contributions

Assign issues to different stakeholders in an easy to use table rather than with comments scattered through a document.

Don't miss the fine points

Towards the end of a negotiation the number of outstanding matters may be so small that trying to find them all is a chore. (How many signed documents have you seen with square brackets in them?)

How does it do it?

Instant Issues List analyzes each of the Microsoft Word documents you upload looking for items of interest you specify:

Tracked changes (~~deletions~~ and insertions )
Highlighted words (like this )
Words in square brackets ([you guessed it])
Comments (those things off to the side)
Footnotes (² Important note.)
Endnotes (pretty much as above)

Instant Issues List then extracts the relevant paragraphs and annotations and arranges these in an attractive table.

You download the resulting report and edit as much - or as little - as you wish.

FAQ

So what's the catch?

Instant Issues List can't do everything for you (although it tries, and it's getting better all the time), so you may need to edit the report after downloading. For example, if your counterparty has deleted an entire table, the report will include an entry for each paragraph or cell deleted. Sometimes this is what you want. Sometimes is it isn't, and you'll have to edit the report yourself (which is just a matter of highlighting and deleting the rows you don't want.

As another example, Instant Issues List relies on to a great extent on the automatic numbering of the document. If your counterparty has started entering clause numbers by hand, Instant Issues List may not pick this up, and you'll need to adjust the references by hand. We think this is better than having to do everything by hand.

How secure is it?

Instant Issues List is hosted on Microsoft's Azure platform.

Stay in touch

If Instant Issues List sounds like something you might be interested in, leave us your email address and we'll let you know when you can try it out.