Best legal document automation software
- Days until the notice deadline
- 90
- Months remaining in the term
- 6
- Days remaining, at 30 a month
- 180
Nothing in these worksheets is a figure we found somewhere. Every number comes from the figures you enter and the arithmetic stated on the page: contracts over their average term is renewals a month, times the window and the annual value is the money renewing; term less months elapsed less the notice period is the days to the deadline. Days are counted at 30 a month. The defaults are a worked example of a common small register, not a recommendation and not a benchmark.
The best legal document automation software for a small legal team is a clause library with a document behind it, not a drafting robot. Automation earns its keep when the team already knows what it is willing to sign: the confidentiality clause it uses, the limitation of liability it accepts, the governing law it insists on, and the fallback positions for each. Assembling a new contract from those is fast and safe; generating one from nothing is neither. This page is about what legal document automation has to do for a team of one to five, why the clause library is the part that matters, and what the free lifecycle sheet on this site does once the document is signed. Every figure on this page is the worked example's own arithmetic, from the figures you enter.
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Build the library from contracts already agreed
Every negotiated contract leaves behind clauses the company would sign again and fallbacks it accepted under pressure. Kept by type with a note on when each applies, they are the raw material of the next contract and the record of what the company's position actually is.
Assemble the document from the library, then register it
A new contract is a selection of clauses plus the deal terms: counterparty, term, notice period, value. The same terms that fill the document fill the register, so the document and its deadlines are created together rather than the deadline being typed in later, or not at all.
Read the deadlines the new document just created
A 36 month term with a 90 day notice period and $24,000 a year of value is a notice deadline 33 months from signature and $72,000 of commitment; the free lifecycle sheet on this site returns those figures from the terms entered, so the team knows what it has just created before the counterparty signs.
Will it do what you need for Best legal document automation software?
Tell us how the contracts are kept now and which deadline last caught you out, and we will tell you plainly whether Clauselane does it.
Best legal document automation software: common questions
Does legal document automation replace drafting?
It replaces redrafting. The clauses still have to be written and negotiated once by a person; automation is assembling the next document from what has been agreed rather than editing the last PDF and hoping nothing was missed.
Is this e-signature software?
No. Clauselane assembles and registers; signing is whatever the company already uses. Once signed, the contract's terms are on the register and its notice deadline is counting.
What does it cost?
The clause library and document assembly are part of Clauselane Pro at $49 a month for the whole legal team. The lifecycle sheet and the contract tracking calculator on this site are free without it.
Clauselane Pro
Keeping the register
The worksheet gives you one window's deadlines and one contract's dates. Pro remembers them: the contracts, their obligations, the matters, the clauses, and the reminder that arrives before the notice deadline rather than after the renewal.
- Download the contract summary as a file you can send to the business
- Hand it over without the Clauselane watermark across it
- Come back to this contract's summary with the figures still in it
- Put your own logo on the summaries and reports the business sees
- Take every contract, obligation, matter and clause out at once, as a file
- Send a contract owner their notice deadline without leaving the register
- Not used by Clauselane: nothing here takes a payment from your counterparties
- Push the register's contract values across to the books as commitments
$49per month, whole team
Start Clauselane Pro PricingClauselane Pro is $49 a month and renews on the same date each month at the same $49 until you cancel. There is no introductory rate, no minimum term and no automatic step up in price. If the price ever changes you keep the price you signed at.