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Is your contract repository a system or a graveyard?

Contracts govern every commercial relationship your company has. Yet in most enterprises, they sit in folders, inboxes, and SharePoint drives — unstructured, unsearchable, and operationally inert.

A $50,000 auto-renewal nobody caught. A CPI uplift clause that's been sitting unenforced for three years. A Change of Control provision discovered only after outside counsel billed 400 hours to find it.

This is the visibility gap — and it's not a legal problem. It's a business problem that lands on Legal's desk.

What you’ll find inside:

The ROI your contracts are already hiding from you.




This playbook gives General Counsel, Legal Ops leaders, and CLOs a clear, evidence-backed framework to move from passive contract storage to active contract intelligence.

01

The 5 clauses costing you money right now
CPI uplifts, auto-renewals, Change of Control, discount frameworks, and liability caps. If you're not tracking them, you're losing on them.

02

GenAI vs. Agentic AI: where the real ROI lives
Knowing what a contract says is table stakes. Acting on it automatically is where legal teams win.

03

A 6-step operational playbook
From centralizing dark contracts to embedding AI-driven review workflows, structured for teams that need to show results, not just intentions.

04

The Smart Data Capture deep dive
Why OCR isn't enough, and how legal intent recognition changes what compliance actually looks like at scale.

05

Expert perspectives from Olga V. Mack (TermScout) and Laura Frederick (How to Contract)
Candid takes on where legal teams are leaving value on the table and what they need to do differently.

“Treat your legal function like a product. Understand your users, collect feedback, iterate often, and measure results. That mindset changes how you prioritise and how the business perceives you”
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Sarah Irwin
Founder and Community Builder, ITGC
“The biggest shift is moving from a ‘tool-first’ mindset to a ‘problem-first’ one... AI isn’t magic dust; it’s a strategic enabler that amplifies good processes and exposes weak ones.”
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Alessandra Colaci
CEO and Founder, Legal +AI
“A fancy CLM or AI system will merely automate whatever process you've got - good or bad. The real competitive advantage comes from smart process design, clear roles, and aligning legal and business teams before technology.”
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Lucy Bassli
Former AGC, Microsoft
“ROI starts with identifying the exact pain point you want to solve — deal velocity, risk calibration, visibility, or business enablement. Without that clarity, you're fishing in the dark, no matter how shiny your tools are.”
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Akshay Verma
Chief Operating Officer, SpotDraft

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