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:
What's market standard for a limitation-of-liability cap in a mid-market SaaS agreement, and what are the common variations? Explain the trade-offs from the customer's perspective.
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.
Read the benchmarked answer
You get a clear answer: the common position, the variations around it, and the trade-offs — alongside a Sources panel listing each citation, so you can open the underlying material and check it yourself.
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.