Legal contract management software for legal departments and the in-house team of one
AgreementSoftware is legal contract management software for in-house legal departments of one to ten lawyers: a searchable repository, templates and a clause library the business can use, approvals with an audit trail, redline comparison and renewal alerts, from $49 a month with no implementation fee. Private practices have their own page on contract management software for law firms.
Being the only lawyer in a company of a few hundred people means every agreement eventually lands on your desk, and most of your week goes to finding documents, re-explaining approved wording and answering "is this signed yet". Enterprise CLM suites are built for legal ops departments with implementation budgets. AgreementSoftware is built for the lean legal team: a clean repository, templates and a clause library the business can use without you, approvals with a trail, redline comparison and renewal alerts, live in a day.
Contract snapshot built from a real agreement
Pick one of four sample agreements or paste your own contract text. You get the record AgreementSoftware stores: key terms, the computed notice deadline, the renewal timeline and the clauses worth a second look.
Contract record
- Parties
- Effective date
- Term
- Auto-renewal
- Notice period
- Notice deadline
- Termination
- Payment terms
- Liability cap
- Governing law
Hover a field to see the sentence it came from.Tap a field to see the sentence it came from.
Renewal timeline
- Effective date
- Alert date
- Notice deadline
- Renewal date
This alert date has already passed, so in your account the alert would have fired on that day.
Risk notes
- Auto-renews with a notice period over 60 days.
- Liability is not capped for one or both parties.
- The other party can raise prices at renewal without a limit.
- Termination for convenience is missing or one-sided.
- No clauses flagged for this focus.
Keep this record and the alert that goes with it
Save the contract to your repository and the alert is set for the date above.
What a lean legal team actually fights
- The business drafts from old deals, so every agreement needs a full review instead of a check of the changes.
- "The latest signed version" is in someone's inbox, a shared drive or the signing tool, but rarely in one place.
- Approvals happen in chat, and months later there is no record of who agreed to the uncapped liability.
- Renewals and obligations are tracked in the lawyer's head or a personal spreadsheet.
- Answering a simple portfolio question, such as which agreements are governed by a particular state's law, means opening hundreds of PDFs.
Let the business draft, with your wording
Turn your standard agreements into templates with variables, and keep approved clause wording in a clause library. Sales, procurement and HR fill in a short form and get a first draft that already uses your language. Your review shifts from rewriting the whole document to checking what changed. NDAs are usually the first agreements to move this way, and our NDA management software page shows the setup.
- Variables for parties, dates, amounts, term, notice period and governing law.
- Clause library with approved fallback positions for liability, indemnity, payment, renewal, confidentiality and data protection.
- Unlimited templates with the clause library on Plus and above; 10 templates on Starter.
Redlines compared, every version kept
When the counterparty returns a marked-up DOCX, upload it to the same record. Versions are compared, so you see exactly what they changed against your last draft, and the full version history stays attached to the agreement. No more guessing whether "final_v3_clean" or "final_v4" is the one that was signed. The contract redlining software page covers comparison in more detail.
Approvals and audit trail
Approvals the business follows, with a record you can rely on
On Plus, approval rules route agreements by contract type and value, through an approver chain with comments on the document. On Pro, multi-step and parallel approvals and conditional routing handle the harder cases, for example sending any agreement with a modified liability clause to legal and any agreement above a set value to finance at the same time.
- Full audit trail: who created, edited, approved, sent and signed each agreement, and when.
- Roles and permissions per folder, so board documents, employment files and litigation-sensitive agreements stay restricted.
- Audit log on Plus and above; audit log export on Enterprise.
- E-signature with signing order and reminders, and the signed PDF with its audit certificate filed back automatically.
Repository and AI extraction
A portfolio you can actually query
Upload your existing archive, and AI extraction fills in parties, effective date, term, auto-renewal, notice period, termination, payment terms, liability cap and governing law for each agreement. Every field shows the source sentence, so you verify rather than trust. On Pro, custom extraction fields capture the terms your company cares about, such as exclusivity, most favored customer or assignment on change of control.
- Full-text search across every agreement in the contract repository.
- AI clause search on Plus: ask for every agreement with auto-renewal and a notice period over 60 days, or every contract without a liability cap.
- Renewal and obligation alerts at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days, sent to the business owner of the agreement instead of to you.
- The extraction itself is explained on the AI contract review page. AI output is a starting point for your review, not legal advice.
Security and control
For the General Counsel who has to sign off on the tool
Your contracts stay yours. Export everything, any time. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and we do not train AI models on your contracts. Enterprise adds SSO (SAML), SCIM provisioning, custom retention, audit log export, a DPA and support for your security review. Read the enterprise contract management system page for the full picture.
Plans for legal teams
- Plus, $149 per month or $888 per year: 10 seats, 2 500 contracts, 300 AI extractions per month, approval workflows, clause library and audit log. The usual fit for a legal team of one supporting a growing company.
- Pro, $499 per month or $2,988 per year: 40 seats, unlimited contracts, 1 500 AI extractions, custom extraction fields, multi-step and parallel approvals and integrations.
- Enterprise for SSO, SCIM, SLA and archive migration, $998 per month.
What is the best contract management software for legal departments?
The best contract management software for a legal department depends on its size. Legal ops teams handling hundreds of negotiations a month usually buy an enterprise CLM such as Ironclad or Docusign CLM on a custom quote. Departments of one to ten lawyers get more from a tool that is live in a day, with a repository, clause library, approvals and renewal alerts at a published price, such as AgreementSoftware from $49 a month. Our best contract management software guide compares both groups.
Is AgreementSoftware a replacement for an enterprise CLM suite?
For a company without a legal ops department, usually yes: it covers repository, templates, clause library, approvals, redline comparison, e-signature and renewal tracking. It is deliberately simpler to set up and priced monthly rather than on a multi-year enterprise contract.
Can I control which clauses the business is allowed to use?
Yes. Templates carry your approved wording, the clause library holds approved alternatives, and approval rules on Plus send any agreement outside the standard path to legal.
Is the AI extraction legal advice?
No. Extraction pulls terms and dates into fields and shows the source sentence for each. It speeds up review, and a person remains responsible for the legal assessment.
Can we import our existing contract archive?
Yes. Upload your PDF and DOCX files and review the extracted fields. On Enterprise we handle migration of the existing archive as part of dedicated onboarding.
Related pages
Spend your time on the clauses that matter
Give the business templates it can use, keep a trail of every approval and let alerts track the dates. The other teams you support are covered on contract management solutions.