Contract review and contract operations, founded by Debra Taylor

Every contract reviewed. Every decision on record.

Twenty-six years of contract experience across entertainment, real estate, and enterprise, including more than 15 years managing enterprise contracts in professional sports, global media, and healthcare. Now working for your team. CYNERSA reviews contracts against a defined playbook, explains each risk in plain English with the exact clause cited, and hands you a record of what was found and what was decided. AI reads. Your team reviews our findings and decides.

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Holding one agreement? Review a single contract, from $99.

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CYNERSA Review: Vendor Agreement 3 Flags

Clause cited: Section 9.2, Limitation of Liability

"In no event shall Vendor's liability exceed the greater of $100 or the amounts paid by Client in the prior 30 days..."

HIGH

Liability cap is effectively zero

Vendor's maximum responsibility is capped at $100 or 30 days of fees, far below your actual exposure if something goes wrong.

Reviewer: accepted · escalated to counsel

MED

No termination for convenience

You can only exit this contract if the vendor breaches it. You have no right to leave, even with notice.

Reviewer: accepted

MED

Auto-renewal with a 10-day cancellation window

This contract renews automatically with only 10 days to cancel. You must act before the window or pay another full term.

Reviewer: accepted · calendar reminder noted

Record

3 flags found. 3 reviewed. 1 escalated. Points to raise with your attorney: the liability cap, the missing termination right, and the renewal window.

How It Works

One method, whether it is one contract or a review queue.

Submit a contract, or open up a contract process. Either way, the review runs the same way every time.

Submit

A single agreement, a sample of your highest-volume contract type, or the process your team uses today.

Playbook review

CYNERSA runs it against a defined playbook for that contract type and flags risks, missing protections, and unusual terms, each tied to the exact language in the document.

Human decision

A reviewer accepts, edits, or escalates each flag. Nothing is phrased as advice. Everything is a finding with a citation and a decision.

The record

The finished review is preserved as a record you can hand to your counsel, your board, or your auditor: what was found, who reviewed it, and what was decided.

Start Here

Three ways to work with CYNERSA.

All three are available now, and all three are delivered by the same person. We do not sell software. We sell a method, the judgment of someone with 26 years of contract experience, and a record you can hand to your General Counsel.

Available now

Review a contract

$99 · $249 · $1,000/year

Individuals, small businesses, creators

Send us the agreement in front of you. You get a plain English risk report with every High, Medium, and Low flag explained, plus points to raise with your attorney before you sign.

Standard Review, delivered within 48 hours
Priority Review, delivered within 24 hours
Founding Member annual plan, 12 reviews a year, first 15 only

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Contract Operations Audit

From $4,500

Contract managers and small legal teams

A four-week audit of how your team reviews contracts today and where AI should and should not touch the work. You leave with a workflow map, a clause risk profile from your own agreements, a human-in-the-loop design, and a 90-day plan you can defend to your boss.

Starter, Standard, and Enterprise tiers
Founding rate for the first three organizations
Senior hands on every audit, not a junior consultant

See the audit and apply

Available now · one organization at a time

CYNERSA on Retainer

From $5,000/month

Contract teams that need senior hands, not a hire

Five to ten hours a week of senior contract operations leadership: your flagged agreements reviewed, your playbooks built and kept current, your escalation path designed, and a monthly Record of what was found and decided.

Month to month, thirty days' notice
Starts with an audit so the scope is real; every engagement begins with a conflict check
New engagements start in November 2026
Senior-level judgment for less than a mid-level hire, with no benefits and no ramp-up

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Why CYNERSA Is Different

Chat tools forget. Contract platforms store. CYNERSA decides on the record.

Chat tools give a different answer every time and keep no record. Contract platforms store your agreements but leave the review to whoever has time. CYNERSA does one thing and does it the same way every time: a playbook-driven review with every finding cited and every decision recorded. It fits beside the tools you already use. No migration, no new platform, no lost history.

Same playbook, every time

Eleven contract types documented clause by clause, each with a required clause checklist and defined risk levels. A $500 vendor agreement and a $500,000 sponsorship deal get the same discipline.

Every finding cited

No flag floats free. Each one points to the exact clause and quotes the language, so the person deciding can see the source instead of trusting a summary.

Every decision recorded

Who reviewed it, what they accepted, what they escalated, and when. The artifact a contract manager can hand to the General Counsel, and the General Counsel can hand to the board.

The Framework Behind CYNERSA

The Human Layer™

AI is good at reading. It is not accountable for deciding. The Human Layer™ is the rule CYNERSA is built on: software surfaces what a contract says, a named person decides what to do about it, and the record shows both. It is how teams use AI on high-stakes documents without handing over judgment, and it is the framework behind the forthcoming book of the same name.

The same idea runs through everything we publish. Every piece Debra Taylor releases carries The CYNERSA Record, a short account of what the human originated, what the AI did, what she changed, and what she refused. In contracts, the Record does the same job for a review. A human decision, made visible.

Read on Substack → The Human Layer (Book) Ageless Intelligence (Book)

AI reads. Your team reviews our findings and decides. The record proves it.

The most expensive mistake companies make with AI is treating it as a workforce reduction tool rather than a workforce transformation one. They automate the visible work and lose the invisible intelligence that made the visible work valuable. We call this The Replacement Fallacy™.

CYNERSA is built against it. No finding reaches a client without a human decision. The record names the person who made the call. Where the first read was uncertain, the record says so instead of hiding it. Nothing is phrased as advice; everything is a finding with a citation.

From The Human Layer™ framework, CYNERSA, Inc.

Why CYNERSA Exists

Almost everyone has signed a contract they did not fully understand.

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Hear Debra tell the story

Most people just sign it, because hiring a lawyer feels like too much for the everyday agreements that run a business and a life. For 30 years, my friends had another option. They called me first. They even started calling me the Question Lady, because I always had a hundred questions about the fine print they were ready to sign.

I have read, negotiated, and managed contracts for a living across entertainment, real estate, sports, and healthcare. And the people in my life learned to say the same thing before signing anything important: "Let me have Deb look at this first."

That habit followed me through every industry I worked in. In entertainment, friends asked me to look over the deals they were being offered before they signed. Later, as a mortgage broker and real estate agent, they brought me the loan and home paperwork they did not fully understand. One friend, a parent of small children with more than $500,000 of equity in their home, was about to take a high-interest loan that could have cost them the house if their income dipped for even a few months. They could not see that danger in the paperwork. I could, and I stopped it.

The moment that shaped me most came in 2008. As the housing crisis hit, I sat down with more than 200 families who were facing the loss of their homes, and walked them through their options in language they could actually understand. Most of them kept their homes or protected their credit. That experience taught me something I have never forgotten: the people with the most at stake are usually the ones who understand their paperwork the least.

Then AI arrived, and every podcast and news story said the same thing: contract managers, paralegals, roles like mine, would be replaced. I felt that fear. And I made a decision. When the internet changed everything, I rolled with it and missed the opportunity to position myself. This time I was not going to miss. I went deep into AI, learned everything I could, and asked a different question: what could I build with the skill I have spent 30 years sharpening?

The answer was CYNERSA. Because everyone deserves a friend who reads the contract first, flags what matters, and tells you what to bring to your attorney before you sign something that could hurt you and your family. Now you have one.

The Founder

Debra Taylor

Founder & CEO, CYNERSA, Inc.

Debra Taylor has 26 years of contract experience across entertainment, real estate, and enterprise, including more than 15 years managing enterprise contracts in professional sports, global media, and healthcare, and thirty years reading agreements for the people around her. She is a licensed real estate broker in Georgia and Illinois, a credited songwriter, the author of Ageless Intelligence, and the creator of The Human Layer™ framework.

She built CYNERSA to give every contract team the review process she spent her career building by hand: the same checklist every time, every finding tied to the clause, and a clear account of who decided what. Her new book, The Human Layer: Why Your Judgment Is the Most Valuable Thing in the Age of AI, is on the way.

Learn about The Human Layer™ →

Background

26 Years of Contract Experience: Entertainment, Real Estate, Enterprise

Company

CYNERSA, Inc. · Wyoming Corporation, Est. April 2026

Published Works

Ageless Intelligence · The Human Layer (forthcoming)

Framework

The Human Layer™ · The Replacement Fallacy™

Licenses

Real Estate Broker, Georgia and Illinois

Trademark

CYNERSA™ · Trademark Application Allowed, USPTO

Where Things Stand

What CYNERSA sells, and what it does not.

We would rather you know exactly what you are buying. Here is everything, in one table.

Available now	Single contract reviews (Standard and Priority), the Founding Member annual plan, and the Contract Operations Audit. Claude does the first read against the CYNERSA playbook for each contract type, and a senior contract reviewer at CYNERSA checks every flag before it reaches you.
Available now	CYNERSA on Retainer: senior contract operations leadership for your team, five to ten hours a week, one organization at a time, new engagements starting November 2026.
What you receive	The CYNERSA Record: the document every engagement ends with. What was found, with the clause cited. What it means, in plain English. Points to raise with your attorney. What your team decided, and when.
Not for sale	Software. CYNERSA does not sell a platform, an app, or a login. The next step is building the Record on the Claude API; this table will say so when it ships.

Want to see what a finished review looks like? Open an anonymized sample Record (PDF).