Why choose SpotDraft over IronClad or DocuSign CLM?

When Ani Bhat, General Counsel at HealthEC, described SpotDraft as the Ironman Suit for the In-house counsel, he was referring to how the SpotDraft platform allows him to automate routine tasks - thereby allowing him to focus on higher leverage activities.
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I evaluated several different solutions but nothing came close to what SpotDraft offered. The platform is easy to use, and many of the features are incredibly thoughtful and unique to SpotDraft. We are able to standardize our risk and centralize our contract repository to one easy-to-find location.”
Ani Bhat | General Counsel at HealthEC

SpotDraft vs Ironclad vs DocuSign

SpotDraft
SpotDraft allows companies to scale legal throughput without adding more headcount. Teams can configure custom workflows and collaborate internally to process contracts faster and more accurately.
IronClad
IronClad, a once modern digital contracting platform, has now become prohibitively expensive and still does not offer native support for a vital part of the contracting flow - signing.
DocuSign
DocuSign CLM suffers from a nightmarishly long implementation cycle, poor support, and a clunky user experience, as reported by several customers.

Top reasons to choose SpotDraft over Ironclad and DocuSign CLM

Instant ROI
The IronClad team takes a minimum of two months to operationalize your first workflow. With DocuSign CLM, you will be working with an outside vendor for the implementation, often leading to unplanned costs and unpredictable timelines. With SpotDraft, you will get up and running in the first few weeks - a far more immediate ROI.

Deep Insights into your Contract Workflow

Unlike our competitors, SpotDraft provides deep insights into the contracting workflow via its flagship contract-specific analytics solution - SpotInsights. You will be able to answer questions like “How long was a contract with the counterparty vs. my team?”. These insights will improve the contracting process and make the entire business more efficient.
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Competitively Priced

SpotDraft is the frontrunner when it comes to value for money. We believe in enabling your entire business at a fraction of the cost that other competing solutions charge.

A team

Onboarding a modern CLM solution will streamline and operationalize the routine work - thereby allowing you to do more with less. With SpotDraft, our customer success team will help you drive adoption across your organization, thereby enabling you to focus on the highest leverage activities.
“Great product and great team! I’ve really enjoyed work with the Spotdraft team. We switched to SpotDraft as other CLM’s functionality were clunky and not intuitive.”
Leslie Ann L, Associate Counsel, Commercial, Buoy Health

Better adoption by integrating with your company’s Tech stack

Most CLM implementations by companies like IronClad and DocuSign CLM fail because the business stakeholders often do not adopt the new solution. SpotDraft solves this problem by integrating with your business teams’ tools, which, in turn, leads to faster adoption and greater efficiency across the entire organization.
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Industry-leading Customer Support across all Plans

Our competition, IronClad and DocuSign CLM, provides white-gloved customer support - but at a cost. We believe that exceptional customer support is critical to the success of any new software rollout - and we offer this at no cost. We set up shared chat channels (Slack, Teams, Whatsapp) with our customers to collaborate and solve their problems in near real-time.

Flexible Hosting across Geographies

SpotDraft is the ONLY modern contract management solution in the market that allows the customer to pick the region where they want their data hosted. With IronClad and DocuSign CLM, your data (by default) is hosted in the US, which may or may not meet the regulatory requirements where your company is based.

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Feature Comparsion

SpotDraft
IronClad
DocuSign
Contract Templates
Templatizing high-volume contracts so that the business team can work independently of legal teams.
5/5
3/5
1/5
Conditional Language Generation
SpotDraft templates allow for more than just form-filling values into a template. With our proprietary templating language, you can use if/else conditions and even compute values to generate contracts that meet your requirements.
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DocX Generation
Support for Tables + Images
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-
Support for company’s brand guidelines
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-
Self-serve Contract Templates
-
Contract Workflows
Defining contract specific workflows allows you to streamline the contracting and business process.
6/6
4/6
4/6
Configurable Workflows
Pre-configured Approvals
Adhoc Approvals
-
Counterparty Collaboration
-
-
Audit Trail
Bulk Send Contracts
Trigger contracts to a large set of counterparties in one-go. Think of it as a mail-merge for your contracts.
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Contract Editor
Editor purpose built for reviewing contracts that is fully interoperable with MS Word.
8/8
4/8
1/8
100% Word Compatible Editor
-
-
Support for basic word formatting
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Support for tables, images + more complex formatting
-
-
Scoped Comments
-
Definition Service
-
-
Error Service
-
-
Comparison on Demand
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Auto-versioning
Automatically create new contract versions when edits are made or when approvals are collected.
Contract Review
Assigning contracts for legal review when needed.
3/3
2/3
0/3
In-browser Review
Contract review and redlining can happen on the browser itself.
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Assign for Legal Review
-
Tracking Review Requests
-
-
Contract Execution
Collect signatures on a contract
2/2
1/2
1/2
In-built e-Signature Solution
Documents are cryptographically encrypted on execution and fully compliant across India, Europe, US, Singapore and Australia.
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Integrations with popular e-Sign Solutions
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Search
Run custom queries to find the relevant contracts
3/3
3/3
1/3
Search by pre-defined metadata
Search by custom metadata
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Search by contract language
-
Post-Execution Contract Management
Staying on top of the rights and obligations associated with executed contracts
5/5
5/5
2/5
Contract Specific Key Pointers
Key terms associated with the contract are available to allow for users to not have to go through the contract over and over again.
Renewal Reminders
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User-defined Contract Notes
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Automated Metadata Extraction
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Historical Contract Import
Easily import contracts executed outside the platform.
Access Control
Specifying team level and user level access con a contract
3/3
1/3
2/3
User Level Access Control
Team Specific Access Control
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-
Organization Entity Specific Access Control
Specify access to contracts based on the organization entity associated with the contract.
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Analytics & Insights
Deep insights into the contracting workflow to help discover bottlenecks and showcase performance
2/2
1/2
1/2
Contract Workflow Analysis
Specify access to contracts based on the organization entity associated with the contract.
-
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Team Performance Analysis
Insights on the number and types of contracts being processed by different members of the legal team.
Implementation
Getting the product up-and-running in your organization
Best-in
class
Time to first workflow
2 weeks
6 weeks
6 months
Cost
Free with SpotDraft license
Additional cost above license cost
Additional cost above license cost
Performed by
Internal Team
Internal Team
External vendor
Support
Best-in
class
Email Support
Phone + Chat + Video Support
Available at an
additional cost
Available at an
additional cost
Dedicated Customer Success Manager
Available for all SpotDraft Customers
Available at an
additional cost
Not available
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The Fastest Growing CLM for Growth Minded Customers
For growth-stage companies, improving contract review time by a day could make the business’ quarter. With SpotDraft, you have a partner who will provide you the necessary tools to streamline the contracting process at a very affordable price - because we know that spending USD 100K+ on one of our competitors is not justifiable early on.

Unlike DocuSign CLM and Conga, SpotDraft was designed from the start to help businesses of all sizes grow, from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 giants.
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"SpotDraft has helped the legal team seamlessly collaborate with other teams. It has helped us be on one page and accelerate processes."

Brenda Yun Perez
Senior Legal Operations Manager

"During our search for a CLM tool, we evaluated around seven options. We chose SpotDraft for its decluttered interface and ease of use, particularly for our business teams."

Aditi Kapoor
Director, Legal, Gameskraft

“SpotDraft is leveraging generative AI to increase efficiency. This is helping us with diligence and also housekeeping for our contracts. Overall, with SpotDraft’s cutting edge features, it means less manual work and more meaningful legal work for our team”

Natasha Wilson
Head of Legal

“We have great feedback from our sales team, being able to produce consistent contracts in a timely manner. SpotDraft has also been able to streamline the approval process and help business teams gain visibility into the contracting process.”

Micah Nessan
General Counsel