Comparison · for a company documenting itself

Writing it yourself in Word compared with doing it here

A customer's legal team is going to read the DPA you send back. Most companies write it from a template somebody downloaded, and then write the sub-processor annex from memory. Here is what changes and what stays your decision.

Serving other organisations rather than your own? The same comparison for a practice.

	clausebench	Word templates and spreadsheets
Where the facts come from	One interview about your own processing and stack, confirmed by you	Whatever the person writing it remembers
The sub-processor annex	Built from a registry that holds each vendor's contracting entity, country and DPA link	Typed from a list of tools, entities usually left as brand names
A customer's security questionnaire	Drafted from the documents you already have, each answer marked confirmed, to check, or a gap	Answered from scratch, and again next quarter
When a vendor changes its entity	The documents that named the old one are marked out of date	Nobody finds out
A fact nobody knows	Left as a marked gap in the document	Filled with something plausible
Judgement and sign-off	Yours	Yours

Which one suits you

Choose clausebench if

You look after more than a handful of clients
The same questions and clauses repeat across clients

Choose Word templates and spreadsheets if

You have very few clients and little repetition
Every engagement is bespoke drafting

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