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Playbook health tells you how a playbook is performing against real deals. The structure check tells you whether it is well-formed in the first place. It runs on the saved playbook alone, with no deal data and no model call, so it is instant and gives the same answer every time. Find it on the Insights tab of the playbook editor.
Screenshot of a playbook showing its clause positions and structure

A playbook opened to its structure and positions

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The score

The check starts at 100 and deducts for each finding, floored at zero. Findings are grouped into errors, warnings, and notes, listed errors first. A clean playbook gets a short confirmation instead: no structural gaps, deal-critical clauses have fallbacks and sign-off, and every conditional rule can fire.

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What it checks

Something in the playbook is broken rather than merely thin.A clause with no preferred position. The rule exists but says nothing. Either write the position or disable the clause.A conditional rule with an invalid value. The rule has no value, or a deal-value threshold that is not a plain number. It cannot be evaluated.A conditional rule that can never raise sign-off. The rule escalates to a level at or below the clause’s base approval, so firing it would change nothing. Escalate higher or remove the rule.
The playbook works but leaves a negotiator without instructions at the moment they need them.A deal-critical clause with no fallback ladder. You have marked the clause must-have but written down nothing to retreat to before walking away.A deal-critical clause with no sign-off gate. The clause is deal-critical, yet a deviation on it can go out silently.A walk-away line with no fallback ladder. The clause has a floor but no intermediate positions, which makes it all or nothing.
No clause is marked deal-critical. Nothing in the playbook is tagged must-have, so review has no basis for putting your non-negotiables first.
Every finding names the clause and carries a one-line suggested fix, so the panel reads as a to-do list rather than a report card.
A freshly imported playbook typically scores low and a freshly cloned template typically scores high. That difference is the point: import gives you language, templates give you language plus governance.

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Limitations

  • The check is structural only. It has no opinion on whether your positions are commercially sensible, legally sound, or right for your business.
  • Disabled clauses are skipped entirely, so turning a problem clause off makes its findings disappear without solving anything.
  • It reads the saved playbook. Edits you have not saved yet are not reflected; save and the panel re-runs.
  • The scoring weights are fixed and not configurable.
  • A perfect score means the playbook is well-formed, not that it is complete. A playbook covering three clauses can score 100.

Clause Rules

The fields the check is looking for.

Playbook Health

The other half of Insights: how the playbook performs against real deals.

Sign-Off Gates

Why a deal-critical clause without an approval level matters.

Import From Contracts

Where low structure scores usually come from.