Settlement

Your settlement position, handed to the other side.

"Off the record, we know our case is weak" can disclose strategy and gut a negotiating position, especially if the email is not actually protected. VerbaPulse flags it before the message sends.

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The problem

‘Off the record’ is not a magic phrase

Settlement discussions can be protected, without prejudice or under settlement-privilege rules, but the protection has conditions, and "off the record" in a casual email does not guarantee it. Worse is what the line often carries: an honest read that the case is weak, a number you would quietly accept, a concession you have not formally made.

Written down, that is strategy handed to the other side, and it can survive even when the writer assumed it never would.

What it catches

The line that gives away the position

VerbaPulse reads the draft as it forms and flags the span that creates the exposure, with a plain reason. Real output from the product:

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"Off the record, we know our case is weak, we will settle for almost anything reasonable."

Confidentiality breach and legal strategy disclosure

Remove before sendRemove

For a disclosure the safe move is removal, not a reword. VerbaPulse marks the exact span while the message is still a draft.

The same check covers the related patterns:

Candid assessments that the case is weak or exposed.
Settlement floors disclosed: "we would take half", "anything reasonable".
Concessions made informally before they are formally offered.
"Off the record" or "between us" framing that may not actually be protected.
Your own rules: upload your communications policy and VerbaPulse enforces it on every draft.

How it works

In the inbox your team already uses

Install in minutes

The Outlook add-in deploys org-wide through the Microsoft 365 admin center, and the Chrome extension covers Gmail. No new tab, no change to how the team works.

Write as usual

As the draft forms, a risky span is flagged with severity and a plain reason, so the writer sees the exposure in the line they just wrote.

Fix before it sends

Apply the safer wording, or remove the line, while the message is still a draft. Anonymized events feed an audit trail your team can show.

Where this fits

A writing-time check, not a privilege ruling

VerbaPulse does not decide whether a message is protected or make the privilege call. It catches the strategy disclosure in the draft, while the wording can still change, so a candid line does not leave on an assumption that it is off the record. It is one control inside email compliance for legal teams, and it complements the systems you already run.

Email content is never stored: drafts are analyzed in memory and discarded immediately.
Nothing is used to train AI models.
The audit trail is anonymized by design: risk types, severities, and outcomes, never message text or named individuals.
It tells the difference between disclosing a position and discussing strategy internally, so an internal note is not treated like an external giveaway.

For the evidence behind this, our language risk benchmark runs real, anonymized cases through the product and reports what it flags.

FAQ

Common questions

Does "without prejudice" or "off the record" protect an email?

Sometimes, but not automatically. Settlement protection has conditions, and labelling a casual email "off the record" does not guarantee it is privileged. If the protection does not hold, a candid line about a weak case or a settlement floor can be used. This page describes language risk and is not legal advice.

How does VerbaPulse help?

It flags the disclosure as it is written: a case-weakness assessment, a settlement floor, a concession not formally made. VerbaPulse catches that span before the message sends, so the position is not given away on an assumption.

Does it decide whether the email is protected?

No. It does not make the privilege call. That stays with your lawyers. VerbaPulse only checks the outbound message for language that discloses strategy or a settlement position.

Is email content stored anywhere?

No. Drafts are analyzed in memory and discarded immediately. They are never stored and never used to train AI models. The audit trail keeps anonymized risk events (type, severity, action taken), never message text and never named individuals.