The legal tech graveyard is littered with document automation subscriptions that lasted exactly one billing cycle before someone quietly canceled them. Law firms and in-house teams buy these tools with genuine enthusiasm, discover that the setup demands more time than drafting by hand, and quietly...
Contracts & CLM
4 articlesContract lifecycle management — drafting, review, and automation.
Contract lifecycle management software was supposed to fix the chaos. Contracts buried in email threads, renewal dates missed, legal teams fielding the same redline requests for the fourteenth time that quarter — CLM platforms promised to solve all of it. The market has responded accordingly,...
AI contract tools are everywhere now, and the pitch is always the same: faster review, smarter redlines, better outcomes. Some of it is true. Most of it is oversold. The lawyers who are actually winning with these tools aren't the ones who adopted everything —...
The gap between how organisations believe they manage contracts and how they actually manage contracts is one of the most consequential blind spots in legal operations. According to the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM), poor contract management costs organisations an average of...