Deciding what to accept, reject, or counter
Walk through each counterparty edit, decide your response directly or via an AI Response suggestion, and counter when needed.
Once Fusial has parsed the counterparty's tracked changes, each one shows up in the review queue alongside your AI redlines. Use the Source filter to scope the queue to Counterparty edits. Every edit lands as pending and stays there until someone on your team acts on it.
Two paths to a decision
You can decide an incoming edit two ways:
- Directly on the edit — accept or reject it as-is.
- Via an AI Response suggestion — click Review their edits first, then act on the suggestion (which adds Counter as an option).
The first path is faster for obvious edits; the second is helpful when you want a recommendation or want to send back counter-proposed text.
Deciding directly on an edit
For each pending incoming edit, you can:
| Action | Keyboard | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Accept | A | Keep the counterparty's change. On export it becomes part of the document. |
| Reject | R | Discard their change. The original text is restored on export. |
| Defer for later | D | Hide the edit from your default queue. Press D again to undefer. |
To send back your own replacement text, click Review their edits and counter from the suggestion.
Deciding via Response suggestions
Click Review their edits in the editor header to get AI suggestions on each pending incoming edit. The button appears whenever there are pending incoming edits and shows a count badge for how many.
For each suggestion you'll see:
- A recommended action — Accept, Reject, or Counter — with rationale.
- For Counter suggestions, drafted replacement text.
In the decision bar you can:
| Action | Keyboard | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Accept | A | Apply the suggestion as-is. If the action was Counter, the proposed text is sent. |
| Reject | R | Dismiss the suggestion. Falls back to the underlying edit's pending state. |
| Counter… | C | Open the counter-proposal text box. Edit the suggested replacement, then click Send counter. |
The counter-proposal is the only place in the workflow where you write replacement text yourself. The textbox is pre-filled with the AI's drafted counter; rewrite freely before sending.
Reopening a decision
Decided issues collapse the decision bar to a Reopen button. Click it to put the issue back into pending and decide it again.
Pending count and the export gate
The editor footer shows the number of pending edits across both AI redlines and counterparty edits. Export is blocked while any edit is pending — including deferred ones. The block is by count, not severity, so a single pending Nice-to-have or a deferred edit will gate export.
Assigning incoming-edit work
You can assign individual response suggestions to teammates from the issue inspector — see Assigning documents to teammates.
When you're done
When the pending count hits zero, recompile to produce the new version of the contract — the export increments the version number (e.g., v1 becomes v2):
- Counter responses you sent are applied as edits attributed to "Fusial".
- Accepted counterparty edits become part of the body.
- Rejected counterparty edits are not applied.