For procurement
You are reviewing contracts. You are not a lawyer.
That is not a criticism, it is the actual shape of mid-market procurement. Latitude gives you the mandate you have been missing: your company's own approved positions, applied to the document in front of you.
You are the bottleneck and it is not your job
The vendor sends their MSA, the business wants it signed this week, and the review lands on you because legal has a queue. You are making calls about liability caps with no mandate to make them.
Escalating feels like admitting you cannot cope
So the borderline ones get waved through. Not recklessly — you simply have no way to tell a genuinely dangerous clause from an unusual but harmless one, and asking every time is not viable.
The redline you send back is a list of questions
Because you do not have approved wording to offer. The counterparty pushes back, the thread runs for three weeks, and nobody is sure what was actually agreed.
Nobody can see where anything is
The business asks for a status. You check your inbox, the shared drive and a Slack thread, and give them a guess.
What actually changes
You get permission, in writing, in advance
The reason contract review stalls in procurement is not capability, it is authority. Nobody told you a 12-month liability cap is fine and a 3-month one is not.
Latitude turns your legal team’s positions into something operational: this clause is fine, this one has approved wording you can send, this one is genuinely theirs to decide. You stop guessing and you stop waiting.
Their paper
Meridian Cloud — Vendor MSA
Limitation of liability
§ 9.2Supplier's total liability shall not exceed the fees paid in the three (3) months preceding the claim. twelve (12) months preceding the claim, save that no cap shall apply to liability arising from breach of confidentiality, data protection obligations or indemnified IP claims
Your playbook
12 months' fees, with no cap on data breach or IP indemnity.
Escalate — outside fallback range
1/5Synthetic agreement. Illustration only.
The same contract, twice
Tuesday, with and without
Without
- 09:14 — Vendor MSA arrives. 34 pages.
- 09:40 — You skim it. Two clauses look wrong, you are not certain.
- 10:05 — You email legal. They are in a board pack until Thursday.
- Thursday — Legal replies with six issues you did not spot.
- Following week — Counterparty pushes back on four of them.
- Two weeks later — Signed, and nobody is sure what moved.
With
- 09:14 — Vendor MSA arrives. 34 pages.
- 09:16 — Reviewed. Five deviations, three within playbook.
- 09:17 — Two fallbacks drafted into the file as tracked changes.
- 09:18 — One blocker on liability routed to legal with context.
- 09:35 — You send the redline and the covering note.
- Thursday — Legal answers the one question that was theirs.
An illustrative comparison, not a measured result. Latitude is pre-launch and publishes no performance figures.
For procurement
Bring the agreement sitting in your inbox
With a few your company has already signed. We will show you what your own playbook would have said about it.