Contract lifecycle management software for teams without legal ops
Contract lifecycle management software keeps each agreement in one record from the first draft to the renewal decision. Agreementsoftware does that for growing companies that have hundreds of contracts and no legal operations team: templates and approvals on the way in, e-signature in the middle, and a searchable repository with dated alerts for the rest of the contract's life. You can be live in a day, not after a six-month implementation.
Six stages, one record per contract
Most companies already go through every stage of the contract lifecycle. The trouble is that each stage lives in a different tool: the draft in a shared drive, the approval in chat, the signature in an e-sign inbox and the renewal date in somebody's head. In Agreementsoftware every stage writes to the same record, so the history, the signed file and the dates stay together.
- Draft: pick a company template, fill in a short form, and the first draft comes out with the variables filled and approved wording from the clause library.
- Approve: rules by contract type and value send the draft to the right approvers, with a comment thread and an audit trail on the record.
- Negotiate: upload the counterparty's version and compare it with the previous one, so you see exactly which words changed.
- Sign: send for e-signature with a signing order and reminders; the signed PDF and its audit certificate file themselves back into the repository.
- Store: folders, tags, counterparties, owners, full-text search and version history, for new agreements and for the archive you upload.
- Track and renew: AI reads the term, auto-renewal and notice period, computes the notice deadline and emails the owner at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days.
A CLM solution sized for companies of 20 to 1 000 people
Enterprise contract lifecycle management platforms are built for legal operations teams with a project budget and months to configure. A spreadsheet and a shared drive cost nothing up front, but they miss renewals and lose the latest version. Agreementsoftware sits between the two: the parts of CLM software a growing company uses every week, with published monthly prices.
- Operations and finance leads who own vendor and SaaS contracts and want a renewal calendar instead of a spreadsheet.
- The only lawyer in the company, or a small in-house legal team, drafting from templates and reviewing redlines without an enterprise budget.
- Sales operations leads who send customer agreements and order forms and need discount approvals and quick signatures.
- HR leads with employment agreements, contractor agreements and NDAs to template, sign and track.
- Procurement leads who need supplier terms, obligations and notice periods in one place with an audit trail.
If the archive is your main problem, start with our contract repository software page. If missed renewals are what hurts, read about contract renewal management software.
Live in a day, not after a six-month project
Setting up our contract lifecycle management platform is a working day, not a consulting engagement. This is what that day looks like for an operations lead starting from a shared drive.
- Morning: create the account, invite your team and set up folders by department or by counterparty type.
- Late morning: upload the archive of PDF and DOCX files. AI extraction pulls parties, effective date, term, auto-renewal, notice period, termination, payment terms, liability cap and governing law into structured fields.
- Afternoon: review the extracted fields. Each value shows the sentence it came from, and you correct any of them with one edit.
- End of day: assign an owner to each contract, check the dashboard for anything expiring this quarter and add your first templates.
The full walkthrough is on how it works. On Enterprise, dedicated onboarding includes migration of your existing contract archive.
Three ways to run the contract lifecycle
| Spreadsheet and shared drive | Enterprise CLM suite | Agreementsoftware | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | Minutes, then constant manual upkeep | Months, often with a consultant | One day |
| Renewal alerts | Calendar entries someone has to remember to create | Available after configuration | Notice deadline computed from term and notice period, emails at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days |
| Reading old contracts | Someone types the dates in by hand | AI features, scope varies by vendor | AI extraction with the source sentence shown and every field editable |
| Approvals | Chat and email threads | Configurable workflows | Rules by contract type and value, approver chain, audit trail |
| E-signature | A separate tool with its own inbox | Often a separate product | Included, signed PDF filed back automatically |
| Price model | No licence cost | Custom quote, annual contract | $49, $149 or $499 per month, or billed yearly |
For a fair look at named vendors such as Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, Juro, PandaDoc and ContractWorks, see our guide to the best contract management software.
AI in the lifecycle
AI that reads the contracts you already have
The hardest part of any CLM rollout is the archive: years of signed PDFs that nobody has summarized. Our AI contract management software reads them and turns each one into a structured record with dates you can set alerts on. On Plus and above, AI clause search answers questions across the whole repository, such as every contract with auto-renewal and a notice period over 60 days. Before you rely on a value, you can check it: AI contract review shows the source sentence behind every field.
- Starter includes AI extraction for 50 documents per month, Plus for 300 and Pro for 1 500.
- Pro adds custom extraction fields for terms specific to your business.
- We do not train AI models on your contracts.
The same record also holds the signing step: our electronic signature software sends the envelope and files the signed copy, so the contract management system is always complete.
Which plan covers which part of the lifecycle
- Starter, $49 per month or $288 per year: 3 seats, 500 stored contracts, repository and full-text search, AI extraction for 50 documents per month, renewal alerts for every contract, 10 templates, 25 e-signature envelopes per month and CSV export.
- Plus, $149 per month or $888 per year, the most popular: 10 seats, 2 500 contracts, 300 AI extractions per month, AI clause search, approval workflows, obligation tracking, unlimited templates with a clause library, 150 envelopes per month, permissions per folder, audit log, Slack and email notifications and an iCal deadline feed.
- Pro, $499 per month or $2,988 per year: 40 seats, unlimited contracts, 1 500 AI extractions per month, custom extraction fields, multi-step and parallel approvals, conditional routing, 750 envelopes per month, bulk send, integrations, REST API, webhooks and reporting.
- Enterprise: SSO (SAML), SCIM, unlimited seats, custom retention, uptime SLA and dedicated onboarding with archive migration, invoiced annually by bank transfer.
Extra seats on Starter, Plus and Pro cost $15 per seat per month on the same billing period. Every detail is on the pricing page.
What is contract lifecycle management software?
It is software that manages a contract through every stage: drafting, approval, negotiation, signature, storage, obligation tracking and renewal. The point is one record per contract, so the history, the signed file and the deadlines stay together instead of spreading across tools.
Is Agreementsoftware a full CLM solution or only a repository?
It covers the whole lifecycle: templates with a clause library, approvals, version comparison, e-signature, a repository with version history, and renewal and obligation alerts. It is sized for companies without a legal operations team, so there is no months-long configuration project.
How long does implementation take?
A team can be live in a day: upload the archive, review the extracted fields and assign owners. On Enterprise, dedicated onboarding includes migration of your existing contract archive.
Can we try Agreementsoftware without paying?
There is no free plan. The Contract snapshot demo on the homepage runs once without an account, and every plan is a paid subscription, billed monthly or yearly.
Can we export our contracts if we leave?
Yes. Your contracts stay yours. Export everything, any time. Every plan includes CSV export of the contract register, and every file stays downloadable.
Put every contract and every deadline in one place
Create your account, upload your first contracts and see every renewal date on one dashboard before the end of the day.