# Force Majeure Clause Assessor

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The Force Majeure Clause Assessor automatically identifies potential adverse consequences, risks with regard to performance and financial obligations in commercial contracts as a result of the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”).

An underlying scoring module segments contracts into high, medium and low risk categories to help allocate resources to further assess and renegotiate agreements. As a result, the Force Majeure Clause Assessor determines the commercial risks the parties bear as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and generates a full report outlining individual risk scores, identified key terms and potential adverse consequences.
The tool can also be leveraged to auto-generate tailored draft amendments to further progress the assessment.

The open architecture of the tool allows it to be adjusted easily to include a company’s bespoke COVID-19 checklist and standard fallback clauses.
Its modular logic can easily be edited to accommodate multiple jurisdictions, changing requirements and updated checklists.

#### Background

Declared to be a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization, public health concerns with regard to COVID-19 are having a direct and significant impact on the general economy. A key focus for companies, whose people and business relationships are severely impacted by these extraordinary events, is to determine and prepare for the effects COVID-19 related performance issues have on its obligations and commercial contracts. It is crucial for companies to be able to understand their commercial standpoint and act accordingly without delay to ensure commercial risks are minimized. However, navigating through the high volume of commercial contracts and the wide array of rules with regard to force majeure and related terms based on jurisdiction and statutory law is proving difficult. 

With BRYTER [no-code app builder](https://bryter.com/applications/no-code-app-builder/), law firms and in-house departments can build an automated Force Majeure Clause Assessor that segments affected contracts by risk level and outlines identified clauses, related statutory laws and jurisdiction. The tool’s risk scoring capabilities give the user an overview of the individual risk per contract.

These scores are then written back into existing databases and analysis tools to assess the overall impact and to streamline the review from higher risk to lower risk commercial contracts. As a final output, our [risk management software](https://bryter.com/applications/risk-management/) delivers a full risk report and all inputs and results are captured within the tool’s own analytics dashboard. Due to the open architecture of the BRYTER [no-code platform](https://bryter.com/no-code-platform/), the tool’s modular logic can easily be tailored to specific types of agreements and the company’s review requirements.

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