Contract turnaround cut from 26 days to 9 across 14 jurisdictions

The situation

Four regional legal teams operated separate contract systems with incompatible taxonomies. Executive reporting was assembled manually each quarter and no one could state global exposure to a single clause position.

What we did

1. 01Baselined cycle time and effort across 38,000 annual agreements.
2. 02Rationalised 1,900 template variants into 96 governed templates with a clause library.
3. 03Consolidated onto a single platform with jurisdiction-specific fallbacks.
4. 04Deployed self-service for NDAs and low-risk paper, reserving counsel for negotiated matters.

Outcome

• Median turnaround reduced from 26 days to 9.
• 72% of NDAs completed without lawyer involvement.
• Global clause position reportable within one working day.