About
BeZero Carbon is a climate tech company operating in the carbon ratings and analytics space, providing platform, API services, and specialised carbon credit ratings to clients globally.
The Problem
Olly Dean is BeZero Carbon's sole legal counsel managing ~20 contracts a month globally, on top of every other legal matter in the business. Everything was manual. No contract repository. No way to track key terms or renewal dates.
Business teams were pinging Legal on Slack constantly. Every agreement, even routine NDAs, needed Olly's direct involvement. With a significant investment round landing in early 2025, the pressure to scale without adding headcount was real.
What Changed
"I think there's a great opportunity here to embed SpotDraft into everything that we're doing and make it a key pillar of our contracting strategy." — Olly Dean, Head of Legal, Risk & Compliance, BeZero Carbon
BeZero implemented SpotDraft, starting with a phased rollout — sales contracts first, then vendor agreements. The goal: make legal self-serve for business users, and give Olly the visibility he'd never had.
Contract repository & AI metadata extraction: All contracts centralised. Olly can now query the entire portfolio, "show me every contract with a $1M+ liability cap" — in seconds.
Template workflows & automation: Smart questionnaires auto-populate the right clauses for NDAs, MSAs, trial agreements, and data licenses. Business users self-serve without touching Legal.
Integrations that fit the stack: Microsoft Outlook, DocuSign, Slack, and Microsoft SSO — SpotDraft plugged into what BeZero already used.
Contracting strategy overhaul: Olly used SpotDraft to move BeZero away from lengthy 35-page MSAs to streamlined commercial order forms with online T&Cs — cutting the surface area for negotiation dramatically.
The Results
- Contracts previously negotiated 78% of the time are now negotiated just 25% of the time.
- Time-to-signature dropped from 38 days to 21.
- Routine legal work is self-serve. Olly's time goes to strategy, not admin.
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