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Contract Lifecycle Management Software

Every contract, under control.

Drop in your signed agreements and the Workspace reads each one — pulling out the parties, dates, values and key clauses, watching every renewal and notice deadline, and answering questions across the whole register.

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AI reading with provenance

Read for you — with the wording shown

Every contract is read end-to-end and its key terms extracted, each value shown beside the exact sentence it came from and a confidence level.

  • Parties, effective and expiry dates, term, notice period, value, governing law and payment terms — pulled automatically.
  • Every figure is backed by the verbatim quote and page it came from, so you can check it in a glance.
  • Confidence levels flag anything worth a closer look.

Automatic classification

It knows what each document is

Each upload is classified against the firm’s 114-type catalogue and mapped to the right contract archetype — so the right fields are pulled for the right agreement.

  • From lease to shareholders’ agreement to SaaS subscription — recognised on upload.
  • Type-specific fields tailored to each archetype, not a one-size-fits-all form.
  • Clause-level risk flags (auto-renewal, liability caps, non-competes and more) surfaced with why they matter.

Renewals & deadlines

Nothing lapses on your watch

The “act-by” date for every agreement is computed and watched, with an at-a-glance view of everything coming up.

  • Act-by dates derived from end date and notice period — automatically.
  • An expiring-soon dashboard bucketed by overdue, 30, 60 and 90 days.
  • A searchable register of every agreement, filterable by company, type and status.

Contract families

See how agreements connect

Amendments, renewals and replacements are suggested and linked into families, so you always know which version governs.

  • The platform suggests when one document amends, renews or supersedes another — you confirm.
  • A superseded agreement is clearly marked, with a link to the version that replaced it.
  • Schedules and SOWs grouped under their master agreement.

Ask your contracts

A question across everything you have signed

Ask in plain language and get an answer drawn from your filed agreements, with the clauses it came from attached.

  • Ask across the whole register or of one agreement — “which contracts auto-renew this year”, “what is our exposure on the facility”.
  • Every answer cites the clauses actually retrieved to produce it, so you can go straight to the wording and check.
  • Where nothing in your contracts answers the question, it says so plainly instead of inventing something that reads well.

Obligations

Who owes what, and by when

The commitments buried in each agreement are pulled out as tracked obligations you can assign and close off.

  • Deliverables, payment milestones, reporting duties and notice requirements captured from the contract itself.
  • Assign an obligation to someone and track it through to done.
  • Obligations sit on the contract record beside the document, not in a separate spreadsheet nobody opens.

Human judgment over it

Nothing is filed until you confirm

Speed with your judgment over it: the reading is presented side-by-side with the document for review before anything is filed.

  • A side-by-side review — document on one side, the extracted fields on the other.
  • Correct anything, then confirm; only then is it filed into the register.
  • A tabbed contract record — overview, notes, documents and related agreements — with the document inline.

Also included

The rest of what keeps a register honest

  • Duplicate detection on bulk onboarding — near-identical agreements flagged before they clutter the register
  • A triage queue for everything uploaded but not yet confirmed
  • Full-text search across every filed agreement and its extracted terms
  • Document requests — ask a counterparty for a missing signed copy and track what comes back
  • Renewal decisions recorded against the contract, with the reasoning kept
  • Notes and questions threaded on each contract, shared with your attorney
  • Contract documents kept together — the signed original, amendments and correspondence
  • Per-company access control across a group

How it works

From signed PDF to watched deadline.

  1. 1

    Drop it in

    Signed PDFs, Word files or scans — drag them straight into the Workspace.

  2. 2

    It reads each one

    The parties, dates, values and key clauses are extracted, each with the wording it came from.

  3. 3

    You confirm

    Review the reading side-by-side with the document and confirm — nothing is filed until you do.

  4. 4

    It watches the dates

    Renewal and notice deadlines are tracked, with everything coming up in one view.

Questions

Frequently asked

How does it read my contracts?
Each document is processed with OCR and read by AI, which extracts the parties, dates, values and key clauses — every value shown beside the exact wording and page it came from. It is a drafting and reading aid, not legal advice: nothing is filed until you confirm it.
What kinds of contracts does it handle?
Each upload is classified against the firm’s 114-type catalogue and mapped to one of around twenty contract archetypes, so type-specific fields are pulled for leases, shareholders’ agreements, services agreements, NDAs, loans and more.
Will it tell me when a contract is about to renew?
Yes. It computes the “act-by” date from each contract’s end date and notice period and surfaces everything coming up on an expiring-soon dashboard, bucketed by overdue, 30, 60 and 90 days.
Does it understand amendments and renewals?
It suggests when one agreement amends, renews or supersedes another and links them into families for your confirmation, marking superseded versions clearly.
Can I ask it questions about my contracts?
Yes — in plain language, across the whole register or of a single agreement. Answers are drawn only from your filed contracts and every answer carries the clauses it was built from, so you can check the wording yourself. If nothing in your contracts supports an answer, it tells you so rather than producing something plausible.
How do you stop it inventing an answer?
The relevant contract extracts are retrieved first and the model is only ever shown those. Citations point at the extracts actually retrieved, never at references the model produced on its own, and where retrieval finds nothing the question is answered as not found without the model being asked at all.
Can I just buy the software?
No — it’s part of working with the firm, designed and overseen by your attorney. Contact us to find out more.

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Why you can trust this: Martin Kotze has been an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, registered Conveyancer, and Notary Public since 2014, practising from Pretoria. The firm is regulated by the Legal Practice Council under firm registration 17444.

This guide is general information, not legal advice for your specific matter.