Meaning Drift Check
Two versions of the same contract are supposed to obligate you to the same things. Often they don’t. A clause can read perfectly well in both and still shift what it legallymeans — liability moves, a jurisdiction changes, an SLA quietly loosens. Meaning Drift Check reads both versions in their own languages and shows you exactly where they diverge.
This is not a translation review
We are not grading anyone’s translation. We don’t score fluency, style, or word choice, and we won’t tell you to hire a different vendor.
We read each version as alegal instrument in its own right, in its own language, and compare what each one actually obligates the parties to do. Where those obligations differ, that’s drift — and drift is a contract risk, not a language-quality problem.
Same analysis engine as our single-contract work. Pointed at two documents instead of one.
Whichever version governs, you are bound by it
Most cross-border agreements exist in more than one language, and many name one of them as controlling. If the version your team operates from isn’t the one a court will read, every process built on it inherits that gap. Drift stays invisible until it becomes expensive.
Clause-level comparison, both sides native
- Reads each version in its own source language — neither is converted into the other.
- Aligns clauses across the two documents.
- Measures the obligations, conditions, and limits each clause actually creates.
- Flags every clause where the legal effect diverges, with severity.
- Returns a plain-language report your legal and compliance teams can act on.
You get a ranked list of the places where two versions of your contract stopped agreeing with each other.
Where drift shows up
Controlling-language disputes
When the governing version says something the working version doesn’t.
Master and local agreements
A signed master and its regional counterparts, side by side.
Regulatory clauses
Compliance language that held in one version and softened in another.
Renewals and amendments
Successive versions that quietly stopped matching.
A risk layer over the versions you already hold
Meaning Drift Check sits alongside your CLM, your repositories, and your existing processes. Nothing changes about how your contracts are produced — you add a check on whether the versions you hold still say the same thing.
See it on your own contracts
Two ways to start — pick the one that fits. We respond within one business day.
One contract analyzed in its source language. Report back in 24 hours.
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