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Start with the approved source
Use the version your team trusts as the Original column so the review has a stable baseline.
workflow guide
Compare contract drafts before signoff
A contract can look clean while one clause quietly changes the practical meaning. Foldly gives you a text-level review surface: keep the approved source visible, load the revised draft or export beside it, and inspect the lines that actually changed before the file moves to signoff.
compare contract draftsreview contract wording changes
How to do it in Foldly
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Load the revised draft or export
Open the DOCX or PDF version beside it so Foldly can compare the extracted text against the source.
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Review high-risk clauses first
Check obligations, dates, exceptions, payment terms, termination language, and responsibility boundaries before lower-risk phrasing changes.
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Flag changes before signoff
Keep harmless clarity edits, reject risky drift, and send the exact changed wording into any formal legal or approval review.
Inspect these first
- Obligations, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.
- Dates, renewal windows, notice periods, and termination language.
- Exceptions, limitations, disclaimers, and pricing or payment terms.
- Any sentence that became shorter, broader, or more absolute than the source.
Comparison setup
This is the practical shape of the workflow before you start reviewing changed lines.
Approved contract source
Starts as: Plain text, markdown, or copied approved wording
Reviewed as: Editable Original column
Best for: Preserving the safest known wording while reviewing the changed draft.
Watch for: Starting from an unapproved baseline makes the comparison less useful.
Revised contract draft
Starts as: DOCX or selectable-text PDF
Reviewed as: Extracted text in a comparison column
Best for: Finding wording drift before signoff or escalation.
Watch for: Foldly does not import comments, tracked changes, visual layout, or legal judgment.
Where contract wording usually drifts
The highest-risk changes are often not dramatic rewrites. They are small edits that make an obligation broader, soften an exception, or remove a qualifier.
- A deadline changes from a specific date to a loose window
- A responsibility shifts from one party to both parties
- A limitation or exception disappears during cleanup
What Foldly is and is not doing
Foldly helps you see text differences clearly. It is not legal advice, a contract management system, or a tracked-changes replacement, which is why the workflow is best used before a formal approval or legal step.
What good looks like
- Every changed clause has been inspected against the approved source.
- Risky wording drift has been flagged before the draft moves to signoff.
- Any separate legal, visual, or tracked-changes review still happens in the right tool.
Example scenario
Vendor agreement signoff
An operations lead compares an approved vendor agreement source against a returned DOCX draft before sending it for final review.
Outcome: They catch a changed notice-period clause and flag the exact line before the document goes to signoff.
Limits and caveats
- Foldly compares extracted text only; it does not compare contract layout, comments, signatures, or tracked changes.
- This workflow does not replace legal review. It helps surface wording changes before that review.
Page intent map
This page targets a narrow problem-space query family and is kept indexable only because the task, example, and caveats are materially distinct.
- compare contract drafts before signoff
- review contract wording changes before sending
FAQ
Can Foldly replace Word tracked changes for contracts?
No. Foldly is useful when you need a clean text comparison between versions, but tracked changes, comments, reviewer attribution, and legal approval still belong in the tools your team uses for those stages.
Can I compare a contract PDF with a DOCX source?
Yes, if the PDF contains selectable text. Foldly extracts the document text and compares wording, but it does not compare the visual PDF layout.