For legal operations
The process is the problem
You have probably already rolled out a tool for this. It had a portal, it had a form, and within a month people were back to messaging the lawyer directly — because the portal was one more place to go and the message was already open.
That is the pattern worth naming: contract intake does not fail on features, it fails on adoption. Every workaround is somebody choosing the path of least resistance, and a process that depends on people choosing the harder path is a process that quietly stops being followed.
What changes
- One queue, several front doors. A slash command in Slack, a file dropped into a Teams chat, or an email forwarded from any inbox — including by somebody who has no access to your workspace at all. All three land in the same queue, with the same policy check and the same audit trail.
- There is nothing to adopt. It runs inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, so there is no portal to drive people to and no training programme to justify. The failure mode you have already lived through is designed out rather than trained around.
- Review stops depending on who picked it up. Standards are configured once — governing law, term, liability, payment terms — and every submission is measured against the same ones. Upload a written negotiation playbook and it becomes the policy rather than a document nobody opens.
- The chase disappears. Whoever submitted a contract can see its status themselves: submitted, in review, claimed by whom, decided. That alone removes most of the traffic your team currently absorbs.
- The record 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 you will not get, and it matters for you specifically
There is no analytics dashboard. You get a searchable register of every contract with its terms extracted, filterable by status, type, counterparty and date, and exportable to CSV. That is the raw material to measure cycle time — it is not a chart that measures it for you. If reporting is the thing you are being judged on, know that going in.
This is not a CLM. No clause library, no obligation management, no procurement workflow. It is contract review, a register, and a record of decisions. If your remit covers the full lifecycle, this is a component of that, not a replacement for it.
Both of those are deliberate rather than roadmap gaps we are hiding. It is better for you to find out here than in a demo.
A human decides everything
There is no auto-approval, on purpose. AI does the reading, the extraction, the comparison against your standards, and the first draft of the markup. It does not approve contracts. The speed comes from a reviewer arriving well-briefed, not from nobody looking — which also means the audit trail says a person decided, because one did.
See document review, the contract register, the in-house counsel view, or how your documents are handled.