Contract Sage
Clear insight. Confident action.
One buried clause can cost you
millions. Find it before it finds you.
Seven analytical lenses read every document you upload, simultaneously. Every finding hard-linked to the exact clause. No black-box summaries — nothing to take on faith.
THE CONTRACT SAGE ENGINE
Seven lenses. Every document.
Every viewpoint. Instantly.
Engineered from an executive leadership perspective — not a legal-review checklist.
Every contract you upload is analyzed across all seven dimensions simultaneously.
Summary
Instant orientation — without reading a word
Assessment
Negotiation leverage & exit strategy
Compliance
Liability, IP,
dispute
exposure
Operations
SOWs, KPIs, obligations, deadlines
Finance
CAM, escalators, payment
triggers
People
Wages. relationship,
etc.
InfoSec
Data ownership & DR/RTO
terms
WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR 7 DAYS
No setup calls. No onboarding queue.
Just upload and see it work.
From signup to your first cross-document finding takes minutes — not the days-long onboarding cycle of legacy CLM tools.
Upload Your 5
Drop in 5 contracts from a real deal, portfolio, or bid stack. No formatting required — scans and photocopies welcome.
7-Lens Analysis Runs
Every document is scored across Summary, Assessment, Legal, Operations, Finance, People and InfoSec — automatically.
Individual Findings Surface
Review flagged clauses per document — each one linked to the exact source text.
Portfolio Effect Activates
Cross-document analysis surfaces conflicts, renewal collisions, and gaps invisible in single-doc review.
Explore & Chat
Ask questions across your whole upload — "which contracts have auto-renewal in Q1?" — get cited answers instantly.
Export Your Findings
Download a board-ready risk summary covering all 5 documents and every cross-portfolio finding.
Decide
Continue with Flex, talk to our team about Deal Room or Portfolio tier — or walk away. No card, no auto-charge.
FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT
"Contract Sage identified $2.1M in inherited termination penalty exposure across 7 vendor contracts — discovered during the 30-day diligence sprint, before deal close."
— Portfolio Director, Mid-Market CRE Investor
7
CONTRACTS FLAGGED
$2.1M
EXPOSURE FOUND
30
DAYS,
PRE-CLOSE
Every acquisition comes with
contracts you didn't sign.
You close a 20-property acquisition. Three weeks later, your operations team discovers an 8-year waste management lock-in buried in a vendor contract — a clause that wasn't on anyone's radar during diligence, and now it's eating into the NOI you underwrote.
This isn't rare. It's the default outcome of manually reviewing 40–95 inherited documents in a 30-day diligence sprint. Contract Sage runs all seven analytical lenses across your entire acquisition stack — leases, vendor contracts, loan agreements, environmental riders, insurance — and surfaces inherited liabilities in minutes, not diligence weeks.
Utility Exclusivity Clause - 8 Year Lock-In
Vendor Service Agreement · Section 4.1
Uncapped CAM Escalation — 90 Days Pre-Renewal
Master Lease Agreement · Schedule C
Insurance Requirements — Compliant
Property Management · Exhibit B
MOST ACUTE
Inherited liabilities post-close
Lock-in clauses, exclusivity utilities, and rate escalators discovered after the deal is done — when it's irreversible.
SECONDARY
Portfolio blindness across entities
Multi-entity, multi-state portfolios tracked in spreadsheets. Renewals and obligations slip through silently.
TERTIARY
Document chaos
Scanned leases, multi-lingual vendor agreements, and inconsistent formats across a growing portfolio.
The average mid-market acquirer reviews 40+ inherited contracts per deal — manually, at $200–$500 per document, with a 10% error rate under deadline pressure.
95%
Reduction in manual review cost
FOR PRIVATE EQUITY / M&A TEAMS
One missed change-of-control
clause can blow a deal
A 47-contract data room. A 30-day exclusivity window. An Associate working through customer agreements at 2am, three days before the deadline — and a change-of-control consent requirement buried on page 34 of an exhibit gets missed.
Post-close, that supplier invokes the clause. Now it's a breach-of-contract dispute, not a footnote. Contract Sage batch-uploads your entire data room and runs type-specific playbooks simultaneously — surfacing change-of-control consents, restrictive covenants, IP assignment gaps, and founder tail liabilities, every finding hard-linked to the source document.
"Contract Sage flagged change-of-control consent requirements in 3 customer agreements — a finding used to renegotiate the purchase price before close."
- VP, Deal Team, Lower Middle-Market PE Fund
47
DOCS
REVIEWED
3
COC CLAUSES FOUND
$0
COST TO
VERIFY
Change-of-Control Consent Required
Customer Agreement · Section 9.3
Non-Compete Gap - Founder Agreement
Employment Agreement · Schedule A
Insurance Requirements -
Compliant
Non-Compete — Standard, Enforceable
MOST ACUTE
A missed change-of-control clause
Tanks the post-close transition or invites litigation from a key supplier or customer. Career-defining if missed.
SECONDARY
Half the sprint lost to first-pass
Analysts burn the exclusivity window on manual review instead of strategic analysis.
TERTIARY
Post-close operational black box
Day-1 integration blind spots that surface only after the deal is signed.
A missed change-of-control clause in one customer agreement can unwind a transition or trigger litigation — and it's usually buried on page 30+ of an exhibit no one re-reads under deadline.
4 hours to 15 min
Per contract reviewed
FOR COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION
"Contract Sage flagged an uncapped liquidated damages clause and a pay-if-paid provision in section 14 — both absent from the GC's standard risk checklist."
- Project Executive, Mid-Size General Contractor
60s
SCAN
TIME
2
CRITICAL TRAPS FOUND
$400K
EXPOSURE AVOIDED
You don't lose margin in the field.
You lose it at the contract table.
You sign a subcontract. Buried in section 14, an uncapped liquidated damages clause and a pay-if-paid provision — neither of which your estimator flagged, because they were reading for scope and price, not legal traps.
Six months later, a project delay triggers both. Your business is now a single bad contract away from a disastrous year. Contract Sage scans every inbound subcontract, owner agreement, and redline for pay-if-paid clauses, uncapped LDs, and broad-form indemnity traps — in seconds, not days. Configure your firm's deal-breakers once. Get flagged on every predatory term before you sign.
Pay-If-Paid Clause Detected
Subcontract Agreement · Section 14.2
Uncapped Liquidated Damages
Owner Prime Contract · Article 8
Notice Window — 10 Days
Subcontract Agreement · Section 11.4
MOST ACUTE
Signing a pay-if-paid or uncapped LD clause
One project delay away from financial disaster. The pain occurs at signing — preventable, irreversible.
SECONDARY
Job-site disputes needing outside counsel
Critical-path work halted while a lawyer hunts for a notice window in a 90-page contract.
TERTIARY
Lost change orders at closeout
Billable change orders that fall through the cracks because they were never tracked against the original contract terms.
A single uncapped liquidated damages or pay-if-paid clause can erase a year of margin on one delayed project — and most estimators are reading for scope and price, not legal traps.
100%
Findings, cited to source
WHY THIS WORKS
AI does the discovery. You keep the judgment.
Historically, all the time went to discovery — reading every page, hunting every clause, cross-referencing every exhibit. None was left for synthesis. None for the portfolio-level thinking that actually drives a decision. Contract Sage doesn't ask you to trust an AI's judgment. It asks you to trust AI's reading — citation-verified, in minutes — so the hours that used to disappear into discovery go to the decision instead.
Human
Judgment stays human, by design
Most AI contract tools ask you to trust a summary. We built the opposite — because your team shouldn't have to choose between speed and being able to defend every finding.
Findings from three very different desks.
Seven figures, surfaced in weeks. Contract Sage didn’t just organize our contracts—it surfaced leverage we didn’t know we had. Within weeks, we identified seven figures in missed obligations and renegotiation opportunities that directly impacted EBITDA.
Zero scrambling. Renewals always visible. The biggest win for us was confidence. We now know exactly where our exposure is, what's coming up for renewal, and where risk lives — without scrambling or relying on spreadsheets.
Caught before close — outside counsel missed it. We ran our entire vendor contract stack through Contract Sage during a portfolio acquisition. It found a utility exclusivity clause our outside counsel had missed — on a property we'd already made an offer on.
Frequently Asked Questions
Before you start your trial.
Do I need to talk to sales before I can try it?
No. Start your 7-day free trial and upload real documents from a live deal or portfolio — not a demo sandbox. Sales conversations are optional, and only necessary for Enterprise or Deal Room Institutional.
How is this different from asking ChatGPT or Claude directly?
General AI tools give you a conversational answer with no structured output, no audit trail, and no portfolio-level view. Contract Sage runs a consistent 7-lens playbook on every document and hard-links every finding to its source clause — built for repeatable, defensible use, not one-off questions.
What happens if I go over my plan's included analyses?
There's no hard stop. You're billed the published per-document overage rate for your tier — visible on this page, not hidden until your invoice.
Is the Deal Room a subscription?
No — Deal Room is priced per transaction, typically allocated to deal costs rather than a software budget, so it doesn't require the same procurement cycle as a recurring subscription.
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