You ended up owning the contracts. Here is a way to run them.
Without the implementation project a traditional contract system arrives with: no consultant, no migration, no seat licence for everyone who touches a contract.
The accidental legal owner
Most companies hit real contract volume long before they hire a general counsel. Somebody still has to own the NDAs, the vendor agreements, the customer paper and the renewals, and that somebody is usually you. Not because it is a finance function, but because it sits next to the things that already are: spend, risk, insurance, audit, and the numbers you take to the board.
So it becomes a job you did not ask for and were not trained for. You are reading an indemnity clause between close and forecast, deciding on a liability cap by instinct, and hoping the version somebody emailed the counterparty was the one you actually approved.
The usual answers are to send everything to outside counsel, which is slow and expensive per document, or to wave it through and find out later. There is a third option: every contract gets read properly before it reaches you, against standards you set once.
What changes
deciding, not discoveringNothing arrives unread
Terms extracted, compared against your standards, returned with a green, yellow or red verdict and the specific concerns listed.
You are not asked to draft
The markup comes back as real tracked changes in Word, argued from your positions. Edit and send, or hand it to counsel narrowed to the two clauses that matter, which is a much smaller invoice.
The register keeps itself
Everything reviewed and everything signed, in one searchable place with its terms. What you already have bulk-imports from Drive or SharePoint, so it starts complete rather than from today forward.
Renewals stop being a surprise
Alerts at 60, 30, 14 and 7 days before expiry: enough warning to renegotiate, rather than discovering an auto-renewal after it fired.
The audit trail is a by-product
Who decided, when, on which version, and what changed between rounds. Captured because it happened, not because somebody remembered to log it.
What it costs, and what you are not paying for
Documents reviewed, not seats
Plans are metered on contract volume per month. Everyone can submit without changing the bill; per-seat pricing quietly pushes teams to funnel everything through one person, which is the bottleneck you were trying to remove.
No implementation project
It installs into Slack or Teams, a setup wizard walks through your review channel and standards, and it runs. Nothing has to be migrated first, and no consultant is involved.
Nobody has to be trained
Submitting is a message in a tool your team already has open. Adoption is the failure mode that kills most contract systems; here it is designed out rather than budgeted for.
The prices are published
On the pricing page, not quoted to you after a discovery call.
To be straight about the scope: this is not a full enterprise CLM. If you need clause libraries, obligation management and procurement workflow, buy one of those. If what you actually need is that contracts get read properly, decisions get recorded, and somebody can answer “what did we agree with them?”, then that is this, for a fraction of the cost and without the rollout.
A human decides everything. There is no auto-approval, deliberately. AI does the reading, the extraction, the comparison and the first draft of the markup. It does not approve contracts and it does not give you a legal opinion. The speed comes from arriving well-briefed, not from nobody looking.
Common questions
No. Plans are metered on documents reviewed per month, so everyone who touches a contract can submit without changing the bill.
No, and deliberately so. If you need clause libraries, obligation management and procurement workflow, buy a CLM. This is contract review, a register and a record of decisions.