Researching standards
Benchmark a term against market standard — with sources you can open and check.
Research answers the question behind so much of negotiation: is this normal? You ask how a clause or position compares to market standard, and instaSpace pulls benchmarks, explains the range and the trade-offs, and cites sources you can open and verify.
By the end you'll have a benchmarked answer to a market-standard question — with sources — and know how to act on it.
You'll need a signed-in account. A document is optional; research works from a question alone.
Ask a market-standard question
Use the Research shortcut, or just ask. Give it the context that makes "market" mean your market — jurisdiction, deal size, industry:
Under English law, what are the statutory limits on excluding or limiting liability in a B2B services contract? Ground the answer in primary sources only — cite the legislation itself and official government material, not law-firm commentary.
instaSpace works in the open as it goes — researching the point, searching legal sources, reviewing them, and verifying citations — so you can see where its answer comes from.
Two things to say out loud. Name the jurisdiction — "market standard" means different things in different legal systems, and a question that doesn't say which one invites an answer that mixes them, with a source list to match. Then say what kind of source you'll accept: asking for primary sources puts the statute itself in the panel instead of someone's summary of it.
Read the benchmarked answer
You get a clear answer — alongside a Sources panel listing every citation, so you can open the underlying material and check it yourself.
Each source carries two labels worth reading. The first is what it is: an Official tag marks primary material — the legislation, the regulator, the government contract — as against commentary. The second is how well it held up: Verified, Partially supported or Unconfirmed, depending on what the check against the source itself found. A confident-sounding paragraph resting on an unconfirmed source is exactly the thing you want to see before you rely on it.
As always, the sources are there to be checked, not taken on faith. Open the ones that bear on your position.
Turn research into action
Research earns its keep when it changes a document. Stay in the conversation and put it to work straight away:
Using that, redline our liability clause toward the market-standard 12-month cap.
"Market standard" only means something once you've said which market — always give jurisdiction, deal size and industry.