Blocks reads every hotel contract in 60 seconds
Blocks uses AI to pull rates, cutoff dates, and attrition terms out of your hotel contract in under 60 seconds, then reviews every clause against your negotiation playbook and hands you a ranked issues list — each flag quoting the exact contract wording.
Hotel contract review software reads a signed or draft hotel contract, extracts the terms that cost money — rates, cutoff dates, and attrition — and checks them against your standards. Blocks does this in under 60 seconds, then hands you a ranked list of issues, each quoting the exact wording in your contract.
“The contract was 14 pages of legalese and I had an afternoon to find what actually mattered.”
Blocks reads the PDF in under 60 seconds and pulls the terms that decide the money — room rates by night, the cutoff date, and the attrition commitment.
“I flagged an attrition clause to my boss but couldn’t point to where the contract actually said it.”
Every flag in the issues list quotes the verbatim clause — Blocks never cites a clause it can’t point to, so you show the exact sentence, not a paraphrase.
“Every hotel sends a different template, so I never knew if this deal was better or worse than the last one.”
Blocks reviews each clause against your negotiation playbook — your preferred language, ranked fallbacks, and walk-away point — so a weak term stands out immediately.
“I marked up the contract, then spent another hour writing the counter-proposal email from scratch.”
The flags you accept feed a counter-proposal that opens as a draft in your own mailbox — you edit the tone and send it. Nothing leaves Blocks on its own.
What does hotel contract review software do?
Hotel contract review software takes the terms buried in a signed or draft hotel contract and turns them into something you can act on. Blocks reads the PDF, extracts the numbers that decide whether a block makes or loses money — room rates by night and room type, the cutoff date, and the attrition commitment — and does it in under 60 seconds. Then it reviews each clause against your own standards and returns a ranked list of issues, worst first. Every flag quotes the exact language in your contract, so you are never chasing a concern you cannot point to. This is decision support for the person negotiating the block, not legal advice: Blocks tells you where a clause is weaker than your playbook and drafts the pushback, but the call to accept, counter, or walk stays with you. You can start with a free contract audit — upload one contract, see the full review, and decide from there before committing to a plan.
What does Blocks pull out of a hotel contract in 60 seconds?
Blocks reads the contract clause by clause and extracts the terms that carry money. It pulls the room rate for each night and room type — not one blended figure — so peak and shoulder nights are priced separately. It captures the cutoff date, after which unbooked rooms are released to the hotel’s general inventory. It reads the attrition commitment: the share of room nights you have to fill, whether that is measured per night or cumulatively, and the deadline it is judged against — and it tells you which of three things it found. A pickup commitment it can quote, no attrition clause at all, or language it could not read confidently enough to call either way. That distinction decides every exposure figure on the block afterwards: a block with no clause quotes no penalty, while a block where nothing was found carries the words “assumes 80% pickup — no attrition terms on file” beside its number, so a default is never mistaken for something the hotel agreed to. It also surfaces the softer clauses that decide your exposure — concessions like comp rooms and rebates, cancellation terms, force majeure language, and any rate-protection wording. Every date it finds becomes a deadline: connect Google Calendar and Blocks keeps a Blocks Deadlines calendar current, updated within about 15 minutes, or subscribe from Apple Calendar or Outlook, or download the .ics — so a cutoff or decision date never lives only in a PDF. Because the terms land as structured data instead of highlighted text, the same contract feeds the rest of your workspace: attrition is tracked per night against what Blocks extracted, and the deadlines show up on your attention surface weeks ahead.
How does Blocks review a contract against your negotiation playbook?
Your negotiation playbook is where you write down what good looks like for each kind of clause — your preferred language, the fallbacks you will accept in ranked order, and the walk-away point past which a term is a dealbreaker. You do not have to write every rule by hand to get one. Point Blocks at a contract you have already parsed and it drafts a starting set of rules from the clauses — a strong contract as the precedent to aim for, a tough one as the cautionary example to guard against — or answer a few questions about how you negotiate and Blocks drafts the rules from your answers. You can also duplicate an existing playbook or start blank. Blocks then reviews the contract against that playbook one clause type at a time. For attrition, cutoff, concessions, cancellation, and the rest, it compares what the hotel wrote to what you set, grades each gap by severity, and stacks them into a ranked issues list — the terms most likely to cost you sit at the top. You work the list like a punch list: accept a flag, reject it, or defer it. Every flag cites the verbatim clause it is reacting to, because Blocks never quotes a clause it can’t point to — if it can’t verify the wording in your contract, it doesn’t raise the flag. That discipline keeps the review honest and keeps you out of arguments you can’t back up. To be clear, this is business decision support, not legal advice: Blocks measures a contract against your commercial standards and drafts your response; it does not replace review by your own counsel on anything with legal weight.
What happens after you work the issues list?
The issues you accept become the basis of a counter-proposal. Blocks assembles the accepted flags into a negotiation email that asks for your preferred language on each one, drawing the specific asks from your playbook so you are not rewriting the same requests from scratch. That email is draft-only. It opens in your own mailbox — your address, your signature, your relationship with the hotel — and nothing leaves Blocks on its own. You read it, adjust the tone, add or drop points, and send it when you are ready. Blocks never sends a negotiation on your behalf, because the words that go to a hotel you have to keep working with should be yours. Once the contract is signed, the same extracted terms keep earning their keep: the cutoff and attrition deadlines sit on your calendar and attention surface, pickup is tracked per night against the numbers Blocks pulled, and if a later invoice or rate doesn’t match the contract, you have the exact clause on hand to push back.
Group hotel cutoff dates commonly fall around 30 days before arrival — after which unbooked rooms are released to the hotel’s general inventory, often at a higher rate.
Source: Meetings ConciergeUnder a contracted room block, a group can be financially responsible for the shortfall between the room nights it committed and the room nights guests actually booked — unless the contract negotiates protection.
Source: Canary TechnologiesFrequently asked questions
Blocks uses AI to pull rates, cutoff dates, and attrition terms out of your hotel contract in under 60 seconds, then reviews every clause against your negotiation playbook and hands you a ranked issues list — each flag quoting the exact contract wording.
What is hotel contract review software?
Does Blocks give legal advice on my hotel contract?
Can Blocks extract the rates, cutoff, and attrition terms automatically?
How do I know a flag is really in my contract?
Does the counter-proposal email send automatically?
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