AI-Powered Feature Notice: ChatMOU uses AI to surface information from your uploaded documents. Results are designed to support your analysis, not replace your professional judgment. Always verify critical figures before using them in negotiations or presenting them to a board.
What is ChatMOU?
Preparing for a negotiation cycle typically means reading through dozens of MOUs — some running 70 to 250 pages — to find specific provisions, benchmark against comparator agencies, and understand what the market has already agreed to. Doing this manually takes days, and the margin for error in a negotiation is low.
ChatMOU lets you ask plain-language questions about any MOU and get back a direct answer with the exact page number and quoted excerpt from the source document. You can query a single contract or ask the same question across all of your comparator MOUs simultaneously, receiving a side-by-side comparison table with a citation for every row.
Common Use Cases
Benchmarking Before Negotiations
Before entering negotiations with a bargaining unit, you need to know what comparable agencies have agreed to. Upload your comparator MOUs and ask ChatMOU to pull a specific provision — standby pay, bilingual supplements, overtime policy — across all of them at once. You'll get a comparison table with the language from each contract and a citation showing exactly where it came from.
Understanding What Has Changed
If you're preparing for a successor MOU, ChatMOU can compare your current contract against the prior version to show what changed, when it changed, and in which direction. This saves time during internal prep and helps you walk into negotiations with a clear picture of the history.
Extracting Forward-Looking COLA Data
Salary increase schedules are scattered across MOU effective date clauses and wage appendices. ChatMOU can pull all scheduled COLA increases from a set of comparator contracts — with effective dates and source attribution — so you can quickly answer the question: what has the market already committed to?
How to Use ChatMOU
STEP 1: Open ChatMOU
Navigate to ChatMOU using the navigation menu at the top of Holly platform’s screen.
STEP 2: Select MOUs
Select which MOUs you want to ask questions about. To do this:
First, select which jurisdiction’s MOU you want to look at
Then select which bargaining unit you want to look at
Lastly, select which MOU for that bargaining unit you want to query.
Repeat this process for all of the MOUs you want to include in your query.
STEP 3: Prompt ChatMOU
Type your question into the chat field in plain language — for example, "What is the vacation accrual schedule for employees with over 10 years of service?"
Press Enter or click the send icon.
STEP 4: Review Your Results
Each result should include the following information from the MOUs that you are querying:
Answer — The direct response to your question, drawn from the document's language.
Quoted Excerpt — The verbatim text from the MOU that supports the answer.
Page Citation — The page number in the source document where the excerpt appears.
Conclusion
ChatMOU is actively evolving. If you have questions about a specific use case or run into anything unexpected, reach out to the team at [email protected].