Contract Sage
Clear insight. Confident action.
One buried clause can cost you
millions. Find it before it finds you.
Contract Sage runs type-specific risk playbooks across your entire acquisition document stack — loan agreements, vendor contracts, utility exclusivity clauses, environmental riders — surfacing inherited liabilities in minutes, not diligence weeks. Pinpoint citations. No black-box summaries.
Built for deal teams under exclusivity pressure. Batch-upload an unorganized data room and ContractSage runs type-specific playbooks simultaneously — surfacing change-of-control consents, restrictive covenants, IP assignment gaps, and founder tail liabilities with click-to-verify citations.
Contract Sage scans every inbound subcontract, owner agreement, and redline for pay-if-paid clauses, uncapped liquidated damages, 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.
I WORK IN -
Utility Exclusivity Clause - 8 Year Lock-In
Vendor Service Agreement · Section 4.1
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CAM Reconciliation Trigger — 90 Days Pre-Renewal
Master Lease Agreement · Schedule C
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Insurance Requirements — Compliant
Property Management Agreement · Exhibit B
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Change-of-Control Consent Required
Customer Agreement · Section 9.3
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IP Assignment Gap — Founder Agreement
Employment Agreement · Schedule A
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Non-Compete — Standard, Enforceable
Founder Employment Agreement · Section 12
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Pay-If-Paid Clause Detected
Subcontract Agreement · Section 14.2
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Uncapped Liquidated Damages
Owner Prime Contract · Article 8
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Notice Window — 10 Days, Standard
Subcontract Agreement · Section 11.4
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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
7d
Free trial — full access,
6
Analytical lenses, every document
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.
95%
Reduction in manual review cost
7d
Free trial — full access,
6
Analytical lenses, every document
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.
95%
Reduction in manual review cost
7d
Free trial — full access,
6
Analytical lenses, every document
FOR ASSET MANAGERS & ACQUISITION TEAMS
Every acquisition comes with contracts you didn't sign.
Know exactly what you're inheriting — before you close. Pinpoint citations across your
entire acquisition document stack. No black-box summaries.
The pro-forma that breaks on Day 1
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. ContractSage runs all six analytical lenses across your entire acquisition stack — leases, vendor contracts, loan agreements, environmental riders, insurance — and surfaces inherited liabilities in minutes, not diligence weeks.
FINDING · 12-PROPERTY PORTFOLIO ACQUISITION
"ContractSage identified $2.1M in inherited termination penalty exposure across 7 vendor contracts — discovered during the 30-day diligence sprint, before deal close."
7
CONTRACTS FLAGGED
$2.1M
EXPOSURE FOUND
30
DAYS,
PRE-CLOSE
FOR GCS & HEAVY TRADE OPERATORS
You don't lose margin in the field.
You lose it at the contract table.
Before you mobilize a single crew. Scan every inbound subcontract for the clauses that wreck your year.
The clause that wipes out a year of margin
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.
FINDING · SUBCONTRACT PRE-SIGN REVIEW
"ContractSage flagged an uncapped liquidated damages clause and a pay-if-paid provision in section 14 — both absent from the GC's standard risk checklist."
60s
2
CRITICAL TRAPS FOUND
$400K
EXPOSURE AVOIDED
FOR DEAL TEAMS & DILIGENCE LEADS
One missed change-of-control
clause can blow a deal.
Contract Sage finds what manual review misses — in minutes, not weeks.
Built for deal teams operating under exclusivity pressure.
The clause your Associate didn't catch at 2am
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.
FINDING · 47-CONTRACT DATA ROOM REVIEW
"Contract Sage flagged change-of-control consent requirements in 3 customer agreements — a finding used to renegotiate the purchase price before close."
47
DOCS
REVIEWED
3
COC CLAUSES FOUND
$0
COST TO
VERIFY
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.
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.
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.
Simplify Contracts, Maximize Success.
Turn Every Contract Into a CEO-Level Advantage
Every contract holds strategic intelligence that drives business outcomes. But extracting that intelligence requires expertise across legal, finance, operations, HR, and procurement—expertise that's expensive, slow, and often unavailable when you need to move fast.
While competitors close deals and optimize partnerships, you're waiting for departmental reviews. Market opportunities slip by. Strategic partnerships stall. Revenue gets delayed. The cost of slow contract intelligence isn't just efficiency—it's competitive advantage.
Strategic Risk & Opportunity Analysis
Business-critical risk prioritization
Competitive positioning assessment
Strategic partnership optimization
Executive compliance recommendations
Financial Strategy & Performance
Revenue acceleration opportunities
Cost optimization recommendations
Cash flow impact modeling
Investment protection strategies
Operational Excellence Insights
Performance optimization pathways
Supply chain risk mitigation
Scalability assessment
Operational efficiency recommendations
Talent & Culture Intelligence
Workforce impact analysis
Compensation benchmark insights
Culture alignment assessment
Talent retention strategies
Technology & Data Governance
Data privacy & security compliance
Software licensing optimization
Cloud & infrastructure cost control
Risk mitigation in technology agreements
Strategic Sourcing Intelligence
Vendor relationship optimization
Cost reduction opportunities
Supply chain diversification
Strategic partnership development
PRICING & Plans
Built for mid-market. Not enterprise pricing. No anxiety.
Monthly subscription options that removes the usage hesitation that kills adoption.
Your team uploads everything — Contract Sage processes everything.
Test the accuracy yourself, then let’s unlock your team's velocity. Every Contract Sage instance features full administrative audit tracking, flexible user roles, 20-language translation capabilities, and text-searchable OCR out of the box.
PRICING & Plans
Built for mid-market Private Equity. Not enterprise pricing. No anxiety.
Per-transaction is the only model that clears the procurement process.
Your team uploads everything — Contract Sage processes everything.
Every transaction deal room features unlimited user seats for your analysts, partners, and external counsel, complete administrative audit trails, and multi-document portfolio analytics.
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.
NO BLACK-BOX SUMMARIES
Every flag links to the exact clause. Click to verify.
We don't ask you to trust an AI summary — and your team shouldn't either. Every risk flag, financial metric, and chat response is hard-linked directly to a pinpoint citation in your original document.
It doesn't make your team lazy. It forces them to look exactly at the clauses that matter — accelerating training, eliminating manual oversight error, and protecting your bottom line.
From operators who've made the shift
ContractSage 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.
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.
We ran our entire vendor contract stack through ContractSage 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.
From operators who've made the shift
Our estimating team scans every subcontract before signature now. It caught a pay-if-paid clause on a job that would've left us holding $400K in exposure if a payment dispute hit.
We threw a hand-signed, photocopied addendum at it as a stress test. It read it cleanly and flagged the indemnity language in under a minute. That's when we knew this wasn't another piece of office software.
It's not another login for the field crews — and that was our biggest objection going in. Estimating drops in the contracts, the risk flags feed back into our existing process. Zero retraining.
From operators who've made the shift
From a diligence and portfolio management standpoint, Contract Sage is a no-brainer. It gives us instant visibility into risk, renewals, and value leakage across multiple platforms — something no manual review could deliver at this level.
We dropped a 60-document data room in on a Friday afternoon and had a flagged change-of-control issue back before Monday's IC meeting. That alone justified the entire deal's diligence budget.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything your team will ask before day one.
We've analyzed 10M+ contract pages across 40+ industries. The questions below are what operators like yours ask us every time.
Lower-middle-market targets have horrific corporate hygiene. AI can't read messy, unsearchable data dumps.
Real-world target data is ugly. Founder-led businesses hand over crooked, low-resolution photocopies, hand-signed addenda, unsigned signature pages, and side letters. Contract Sage is built for the mud. It features an advanced text-recognition (OCR) engine that extracts and indexes text from the worst scans. With full support for 20 common languages, it can translate and run risk playbooks on international supplier and supply chain agreements seamlessly.
If the AI misses a weirdly phrased liability trap or a hidden 'most-favored-nation' clause, it tanks our investment thesis.
We don't ask you to trust an algorithm's summary. ContractSage is a pointer system, not a black-box text spinner. Every single analysis point, risk flag, and chat answer is hard-linked to a click-to-verify pinpoint citation in the original document. Furthermore, you can hardcode your fund's exact "deal-breakers" into the global configuration—ensuring your team is immediately alerted to specific non-standard terms across thousands of pages.
We handle highly confidential, non-public target data. We cannot drop it into a loose marketing software silo.
ContractSage is built from an enterprise executive perspective. The platform features strict user isolation, granular multi-user permission controls, and complete, unalterable administrative audit logs tracking exactly who viewed, analyzed, or shared every document. Your data rooms remain locked, monitored, and compliant with standard institutional confidentiality requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything your team will ask before day one.
We've analyzed 10M+ contract pages across 40+ industries. The questions below are what operators like yours ask us every time.
If the AI misses or misreads a clause, it could tank our investment thesis. How do we trust the output?
We don't ask you to trust a black-box summary — and you shouldn't. Every single finding is hard-linked to a pinpoint citation in the source document. Your team reviews the exact clause, not an AI's interpretation of it. The free accuracy test lets you upload one document from a live deal and verify this yourself before any commercial conversation.
We're under exclusivity with a hard close date. What's the actual time-to-value?
Batch-upload an entire data room and findings begin populating within minutes — not the hours-to-days of manual first-pass review. There's no setup, integration, or onboarding period that eats into your diligence window. Deal Room access is per-transaction, with unlimited documents and unlimited deal-team seats for a flat fee tied to your transaction window, not a monthly subscription.
Our procurement process for new software vendors takes months. We close deals faster than that.
Deal Room pricing is structured as a per-transaction fee that's typically allocated to deal costs — not the software budget — which means it usually doesn't require the same procurement cycle as a recurring SaaS subscription. Most deal teams are running documents within the same day they sign up.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything your team will ask before day one.
We've analyzed 10M+ contract pages across 40+ industries. The questions below are what operators like yours ask us every time.
Construction contracts are messy, low-quality data dumps. Can AI actually read a document that was printed, hand-signed in a trailer, and scanned as a crooked PDF?
Real-world field data is ugly — we built the platform specifically to handle it. Contract Sage features an advanced OCR engine engineered to ingest and index low-resolution scans, handwritten addenda, and muddy photocopies. With support for 20 languages, multi-lingual supplier or international labor agreements are parsed without missing a beat.
If my project managers rely on an AI dashboard to understand their scope, they'll stop reading the actual contract and leave us exposed.
We don't ask you to trust a machine's summary, and your team shouldn't either. Contract Sage is a pointer system, not a black-box text spinner. Every risk flag, extracted clause, or chat response is hard-linked directly to a click-to-verify pinpoint citation in the original contract. It forces project managers to look exactly at the clauses that matter — accelerating training, not replacing judgment.
Our tech stack is already bloated — Procore, Autodesk, the works. My field crews will refuse to log into another platform.
This isn't a project management app, daily log, or administrative burden — it's a lightweight contract compliance layer. Your estimating or operations team drops raw contract files in once, extracts critical milestones and risks, and feeds that intelligence back into your existing workflow. No retraining, no new daily habit for field crews.
Every contract is a lever.
We show you how to pull it.
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