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Contract intelligence for executives

When something happens, ask every contract what it means.

A rate moves, a supplier is acquired, a regulation lands. Aavenir Atlas reads the signed portfolio, answers with the clauses cited and ranked by value, and suggests the next best question and the next best action for a person to approve.

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Procurement, legal, IT, finance, and sales teams run their contracts on Aavenir.

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Definition

What is contract intelligence for executives?

Contract intelligence for executives is the ability to ask a business question of every signed agreement at once, such as what an index move costs or which suppliers must consent to an acquisition, and get a cited answer.

Dashboards show what someone decided to track last year. Executive questions arrive with an event attached, and the answer usually sits in a clause nobody extracted: an escalation right, a consent requirement, a termination for convenience, an audit right. Aavenir Atlas reads masters, amendments and related agreements together, so the answer reflects the terms actually in force.

  • Plain language questions across the whole portfolio, answered with citations
  • Results ranked by contract value, so the first page is the one that matters
  • A suggested next best question narrows the answer to a decision
  • A proposed next best action goes to a named owner for approval
  • Atlas is in early access, by invitation, on a sample of your own agreements

Four seats, four questions

The question each executive brings to the portfolio.

Demo questions of the kind design partners ask. Each answer comes back as a list of agreements and clauses, not a summary.

What can our suppliers charge us next year?

Escalation clauses, index references and caps across every supplier agreement, with the notice each supplier must give. Price escalation rights. Caps in amendments. Payment term exposure.

What are we entitled to that we never collected?

Rebates, volume tiers, service credits and price protections the contracts grant, ranked by supplier spend. Rebates and tiers. Service credits. Price protections.

What breaks if we sell this business unit?

Consent, notice and termination terms triggered by a change of control or assignment, cited clause by clause. Consent to assign. Termination rights. Uncapped liability.

Which critical vendors could we not exit cleanly?

Exit plans, data return terms, audit rights and termination notice across technology and ICT agreements. Exit and transition. Data return. Audit rights.

The board question

How a portfolio question gets answered today, and with Atlas.

Today

  • ×The question goes to legal and procurement as an email
  • ×Someone samples the twenty largest contracts and reads them
  • ×Amendments that changed the original terms get missed
  • ×The answer comes back as a slide two weeks later
  • ×Nobody owns the follow-up, so the right lapses

With Atlas

  • The question goes to Atlas in plain language
  • Every agreement loaded is read, not a sample
  • Masters and amendments are read together for the terms in force
  • The answer arrives ranked by value, with each clause cited
  • A next best action is proposed to a named owner for approval

How it works

Ask, rank, decide, then act.

  1. Plain language, no query builder or report request Masters, statements of work and amendments read together Every answer links to the clause a reader can open.

  2. Results sorted by contract value, not by file name Each line states the right and the condition attached Agreements with no right are listed too, so nothing is assumed.

  3. Atlas suggests the follow up a specialist would ask Each suggestion narrows the answer toward a decision Executives decide which thread to pull.

  4. A proposed action with the clause, the deadline and the owner Nothing is sent or changed until a person approves it The decision is logged next to the answer that prompted it.

Watch

See it in the product.

15:50Interview Interview with Aavenir's CEO on contract management and S2P on ServiceNow

Why it matters

The cost of contracts nobody reads, measured.

Almost 9% of contract value lost on average, in WorldCC research on contract managementWorldCC, 2025
About 3% lost by the best performing organizations in the same researchWorldCC, 2025

Customer stories

Results from the contract foundation Atlas reads

Southeast Asian bank
Contractflow on ServiceNow

A leading Southeast Asian bank cut its approval cycle fivefold

5x faster approval cycle
42% reduced contract risk
Mining company
RFPflow, Onboardingflow, Contractflow on ServiceNow

A mining company connected sourcing to contracting

25% faster sourcing cycle
5x faster contract cycle time
Fortune 500 insurer
RFPflow and Contractflow

A Fortune 500 insurer cut its contract cycle by 70%

70% faster contract cycle
25% increased adoption rate
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Breakthrough results for our legal team.
Dominic Gyngell General Counsel, Speedcast, on Contractflow in ServiceNow

Aavenir and the alternatives

How Aavenir compares with the other ways teams do this.

What matters Aavenir Standalone contract lifecycle management tools Shared drives, email and spreadsheets
Where it runs Native on ServiceNow, or deployed standalone Their own platform, connected to other systems by integration Wherever the file was last saved
One record across the lifecycle Sourcing, contract, obligations and invoices on one record Usually the contract stage, other stages through partners No record, only files and threads
AI at each stage Aavenir AI extracts terms, reviews against your playbook and tracks obligations, and a person approves Varies by product, often strongest in review and search None
After signature Obligations assigned, evidence checked, renewals flagged before the notice window Varies by product A calendar reminder, if someone set one
Where others can be stronger Configured to your workflow, one module or the whole suite Often a quick start for a single legal team Free and familiar, until volume grows

Comparisons describe categories of tools, not named products. For named comparisons, see Aavenir compared.

Further reading

AI in contract lifecycle management AI-native vs bolt-on contract lifecycle management: how to tell the difference before you buy Read the article Contract management Where contract value goes after signature Read the article AI in contract lifecycle management AI agents in contract management: what they actually do Read the article

Questions

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Questions worth asking next

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Common questions

What is contract intelligence?

Contract intelligence is AI that reads a whole portfolio of signed agreements and answers business questions about them, such as which contracts allow a price increase or need consent in an acquisition, with each answer cited to the clause. Aavenir Atlas also ranks answers by value. Explore Atlas.

What do next best question and next best action mean in Atlas?

After each answer, Atlas suggests the follow up question a specialist would ask, so an executive can narrow from a list of contracts to a decision. It then proposes an action, with the clause, deadline and owner, which a person approves before anything happens. See how Atlas works.

Is Atlas available today?

Atlas is in early access, by invitation. Aavenir loads a sample of your signed agreements, your commercial, legal and finance teams ask Atlas their real questions for 14 days, and you keep the findings report, ranked by value with the clauses cited. Request early access.

How is Atlas different from a contract dashboard?

A dashboard shows fields someone chose to extract in advance. Atlas reads the agreements when the question is asked, including amendments and related documents, so it can answer questions nobody planned for, such as a consent check before an acquisition. See the AI behind it.

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See your contracts run on one record.

  • 1 A 30 minute walkthrough Built around your team, whether that is procurement, legal, IT or finance.
  • 2 Your contracts, not ours Bring a few sample agreements and watch Aavenir AI extract and review them.
  • 3 ServiceNow or standalone We show the deployment that fits the systems you already run.

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