The vendor sent a redline. You want to keep moving. The draft you almost send is the agreement plus "does this look fine?"
That question has two honest answers, and both are useless. A fast yes you will later treat as cover. A slow "it depends" that you already knew.
Legal reviews clauses against risks. Give them a clause and a risk.
Name the clause, the risk, the question
The clause. Quote it, or link the paragraph and paste the sentence. A briefing has no attachments, so the words have to live in the note. "Section 8, limitation of liability" is not enough if section 8 has four parts.
The risk. In one sentence, the failure you actually care about. "If their API is down for a day, can they cap us at the monthly fee while our customers still bill us." Not "liability seems light."
The question. Something a review can close. "Does this clause as written cover that failure? If not, what change would?" Choose a review shape, not a decision you pretend they can make from a hallway read.
If you already have a proposed edit, include it as an option, not as the only path. They may have a better one. Asking for a decision too early — "approve this wording by Friday" — skips the work you came for.
Say what is already decided
Counsel will not spend the hour on a commercial point you already accepted. Mark it. "We have accepted the term. We will not reopen price. The only open question is the indemnity sentence."
Say the date the other side is waiting on, as an instant with a zone. Do not invent urgency they cannot meet. A real close date is a constraint. A nervous "ASAP" is how reviews go to the bottom of the pile.
You still own the send
An assistant can pull the clause out of a thread and draft the risk sentence. You approve the package because the words will sit in a file next to a contract. A rubber-stamp "looks fine" from you, generated from a model that did not read section 8, is the same failure wearing a different face.
If they have an account, you need an accepted contact. If they do not, they get email and a page; they can reply from the link. You do not need to be in the same matter-management tool.
Do not put a private nickname for the vendor's counsel in the brief. Use the name on the letterhead.
What a review is not
It is not a policy chat with HR, and it is not a yes on the whole deal. It is an answer about a sentence. When you get that answer, you still decide whether to sign.
If the redline is already in a session, connect your assistant and have it extract the one paragraph you actually need read.