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The Contract Was Hiding in Plain Sight
The clever part of Workday’s contract business is not writing agreements. It is teaching a company to notice what its agreements have been saying all along.
Summize wants your contracts out of the inbox queue
The Manchester company puts contract work inside Word, Slack and Teams. Its customers reveal why the real breakthrough often starts before anyone switches on the AI.
Gatekeeper Wants Your Contracts to Stop Renewing Themselves
The vendor-management company connects contracts, supplier risk and spending in one place. Its most persuasive pitch is the money and hours customers say they recovered from work nobody wanted to own.
Filevine Turned a Lawyer’s Software Headache Into a $400 Million Bet on Legal AI
The Utah company began as an escape from legal software that forced firms to work someone else’s way. A decade later, its configurable case system has become the foundation for a broader - and much more expensive - legal intelligence campaign.
Sirion Put AI Where Contracts Get Expensive: After the Signature
Most contract software helps companies reach the signature. Sirion built its business around the expensive part that comes next - proving that suppliers, customers, and internal teams delivered what the agreement promised.
The $1 Trillion Procurement Bet: Zycus Wants AI to Finish the Job, Not Just File the Form
Zycus spent more than two decades building the plumbing of corporate purchasing. Now it is betting that procurement's next interface is a sentence in Teams - and its next worker is an AI agent with guardrails.
Malbek Wants to Fire the Spreadsheet Running Your Contract Department
The Princeton software company is betting that contracts should behave less like buried paperwork and more like operating data. Its best proof is wonderfully unglamorous: fewer legal touches, shorter cycles and no consultant army hiding behind the setup screen.
LinkSquares Turned Contract Chaos Into a Business Dashboard - Now It Is Rebuilding the Whole Thing Around AI Agents
The Boston legal-tech company began with one painfully specific question: what have we already promised? A decade, more than 1,000 customers and roughly $166 million in funding later, it is betting that contract software should do more than store the answer.
DealHub Bet $184.5 Million That Your Revenue Stack Has Too Many Tabs Open
The Austin-based software company is turning the least glamorous part of enterprise sales - the machinery between a promising deal and recognized revenue - into one governed workflow. A $100 million growth round says the timing is no accident.
Agiloft Spent 35 Years Making Contracts Less Awful - Now AI Is Testing Its Best Advantage
The enterprise-software veteran built a business around one unfashionable promise: your contract system should bend to your company. Its next act is to make the paperwork answer back - without letting customization become chaos.
Conga
Align pricing, quoting, and contracting with shared, AI-driven intelligence so teams stay aligned and move from decision to execution with clarity and speed.
Roger
Roger is a New York eSignature and contract platform (YC W21) that turns clunky PDF signing into an app-like, mobile-first experience. Built for startups, SMBs, and growing sales, HR, and finance teams, it pairs reusable templates, approval workflows, smart reminders, and a searchable contract repository with pay-as-you-go pricing - positioning itself as a faster, simpler alternative to DocuSign.
Checkbox
Checkbox is an AI-powered legal service management platform that acts as the 'AI Legal Front Door' for in-house legal teams. It captures legal requests from channels like email, Slack, Teams and Salesforce, automatically triages and routes them, resolves routine work such as NDAs and contract approvals through self-service and AI agents, and escalates complex matters to attorneys. Built on a no-code, drag-and-drop workflow engine, it gives legal departments a single place to capture, manage, automate and measure their work. Founded in 2016 by Sydney classmates Evan Wong and James Han, Checkbox serves 100+ enterprises including SAP, PepsiCo, Hitachi, Telstra, Woolworths and Xero, and raised a $23M Series A in January 2026 at a reported $100M valuation.
Concord
Concord is an AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that lets any team - legal, sales, procurement, finance and HR - create, negotiate, e-sign, store and track agreements in one place. Founded in 2014 by Matt Lhoumeau and Florian Parain, the company targets the mid-market with fast deployment and transparent pricing, and says its software is used by hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide.
SpotDraft
SpotDraft is an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform built for in-house legal and business teams. Founded in 2017 by Shashank Bijapur and Madhav Bhagat, it handles the full contracting journey - drafting, negotiation, AI-assisted redlining, e-signatures, and an intelligent repository - so legal teams can move faster without giving up control. With its VerifAI Microsoft Word plug-in and a broader 'Legal OS' vision, SpotDraft serves 450+ organizations and is used by growth-stage and enterprise companies to cut contract busywork and surface risk automatically.
Cognizer Inc
Cognizer is a Pleasanton, California enterprise AI company that turns messy contract documents into structured, queryable intelligence. Its patented Genius technology pairs natural language AI with a knowledge graph so legal, sales, procurement, finance and compliance teams can discover, classify and analyze contracts at scale - detecting clauses, mapping parent/child document families and answering plain-language questions across millions of documents.
Aavenir
Aavenir is a Texas-based enterprise software company that builds AI-powered source-to-pay and contract lifecycle management (CLM) applications natively on the ServiceNow platform. Founded in 2019 by Jesal Mehta, the company uses AI agents, machine learning, and natural language processing to automate contracting, sourcing, invoicing, vendor onboarding, and obligation management so procurement, legal, and finance teams can cut cycle times, reduce risk, and gain end-to-end visibility across the vendor and contract lifecycle.
Crosby
Crosby is an AI-powered law firm that reviews business contracts - NDAs, MSAs, and DPAs - in under an hour by pairing proprietary AI agents with licensed human lawyers. It charges a fixed price per document instead of billing by the hour, carries malpractice insurance like any registered law firm, and is built for fast-growing companies whose deals get stuck waiting on legal. Founded in 2025 by Ryan Daniels and John Sarihan, Crosby has reviewed thousands of contracts for customers like Cursor, Clay, and Cartesia, and raised $85.8M total across seed, Series A, and a $60M Series B led by Lux Capital and Index Ventures.
Icertis
Icertis is the AI-native contract intelligence company that turns enterprise strategy into faster execution at scale. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Icertis helps 1 in 5 Fortune Global 500 companies manage millions of commercial agreements across 90+ countries through its Icertis Contract Intelligence platform - powered by Vera AI, a proprietary model trained on 17+ million contracts. With $496M in total funding, a $5B valuation, and nearly $350M in annual recurring revenue, Icertis has redefined what contract lifecycle management can do: turning buried legal text into live business intelligence.