Research Contract Review demo

What the demo shows

Reviews DUAs, MTAs and sponsored research agreements and drafts redlines, for contract staff

Six agents read each agreement, identify its type, place every clause on the university's policy ladder with the policy line cited, draft the redline at the nearest acceptable rung, cross-check data terms with the IRB protocol, the data security plan and FERPA, and show where the same counterparty settled each clause before. Only walk-away clauses reach the negotiator; fallbacks go to the associate director, legal terms to counsel, protocol fixes to the IRB analyst, and nothing is sent or signed until every deviation is approved by the right person.

Transcript

1. 0:00Research Contract Review drafts redlines for data use, material transfer and research agreements.
2. 0:09A typical data use agreement takes four to six weeks.
3. 0:15At 1:52, the state education department sends one: student records, under FERPA.
4. 0:23Each clause sits on Halden’s policy ladder, every rung cited.
5. 0:30Clause 9 makes Halden indemnify the department, which state law forbids: walk-away.
6. 0:38The Drafter redlines at the nearest acceptable rung, accepted here five times before.
7. 0:46Clause 6 says destroy in 30 days, the IRB protocol seven years; the analyst amends it.
8. 0:55The associate director approves four fallbacks; counsel approves clause 9.
9. 1:02At 3:10, Priya Okonkwo-Hale sends the full redline, drafted in 40 minutes.
10. 1:11Negotiators decide, counsel approves, all audited.
11. 1:16Same afternoon; one clause in fourteen needed a negotiator.
12. 1:23Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.

The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.