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Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

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The General Counsel

Weighted verdict

Runs a three-lawyer legal team that negotiates every supplier and customer contract in Word with the other side's counsel. Wants approved clauses with fallbacks, redlines that survive the round-trip, and an approval on record for every deviation — not a sign-off by email.

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Scored by The General Counsel

Drafting, templates & clause library

How this is scored

Creating a contract without starting from an old one: templates with variables and conditional clauses, an approved clause library, self-service generation for business teams, and support for German-language and German-law templates.

0 — No drafting at all; contracts are uploaded as finished files.

3 — Templates with simple placeholders, but no conditional logic, no clause library, and every draft still edited by hand by legal.

5 — Templates with variables and conditional clauses, a clause library with approved fallbacks, a questionnaire or form that lets business users generate standard contracts, and German-language templates supported.

8 — Template and clause versioning with an owner per clause, multilingual templates from one source, generation from CRM or procurement records, playbook rules that flag deviations from approved wording, and template use reported.

10 — Drafting is governed end to end: every clause traceable to its approved version and owner, deviations from the playbook visible on every draft, bilingual German–English contracts generated side by side, and templates exportable in an open format.

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The General Counsel

Contract creation exists as a module with a Word Add-in and templates from the Professional tier, and downloadable NDA and shareholder-resolution templates are offered, but we found no public information on a clause library with approved fallbacks, conditional clause logic, or playbook rules that flag deviations from approved wording. In practice every draft still comes back to my desk for hand-editing. 2 6 7

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Negotiation, redlining & approval

How this is scored

Getting from draft to agreed text with a counterparty and through internal sign-off: redlining in Word and in the browser, external collaboration, version comparison, approval workflows, and a record of who approved which version.

0 — No negotiation support; versions are emailed back and forth outside the system.

3 — Comments and a version list inside the system, but no redline comparison, no Word round-trip, and approvals handled by email.

5 — Redlining with tracked changes, a Word add-in or round-trip that keeps changes, counterparty access without a licence, version comparison, and configurable approval steps by contract type or value.

8 — Conditional approval routing (value, deviation from playbook, risk), parallel and sequential approvers with delegation, an audit trail of every change and approval per version, and internal comments kept separate from what the counterparty sees.

10 — Negotiation is an auditable record: every concession traceable to who proposed and who approved it, approval rules an auditor or the board can read, negotiation duration reported per contract type, and the full history exportable with the signed version.

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The General Counsel

The approval machinery is real and well documented: ordered multi-step approval groups with conditions on category, team, status and contract value using comparison operators, delegation-style groups, rejection stopping the flow with a stated reason, and every approval and rejection recorded with timestamp and person in a change log. But we found no public information on redlining, version comparison or counterparty access — external approvers are explicitly excluded — so the Word round-trip with opposing counsel happens outside the system. 2 8 9

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Repository, deadlines & obligations

How this is scored

Knowing what has been signed and what it requires: a searchable repository with metadata, notice periods and renewal dates captured and reminded, obligations tracked to an owner, access rights by department, and reporting on the portfolio.

0 — A file store with folders; no metadata, no dates and no reminders.

3 — Metadata fields and an end date with an email reminder, but notice periods and auto-renewal are not modelled and reminders go to one person.

5 — Notice periods, renewal terms and end dates modelled as fields, reminders with escalation to named owners, full-text search including scanned contracts (OCR), and access rights per department or contract type.

8 — Obligations and milestones tracked with owners and status, contract hierarchies (framework, amendments, orders) linked, reminders logged so a missed deadline can be traced, and portfolio reports on renewals, value and counterparties.

10 — The repository is a system of record a company can be audited on: every deadline derived from a cited clause, reminders and their acknowledgements logged, retention and deletion rules per contract type, and a portfolio view a CFO can use for commitments and cancellations.

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The General Counsel

Notice periods, end dates and renewal and deadline management are modelled and consolidated into a calendar view with task deadlines, OCR full-text search covers scanned contracts and respects per-team and per-category access rights, and contracts can be linked with attachments. We found no public information on obligations tracked to a named owner with status, on logged reminders that make a missed deadline traceable, or on portfolio reporting across renewals, value and counterparties. 1 2 10 11

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AI extraction & review transparency

How this is scored

Whether the AI that extracts dates and clauses or reviews a draft is disclosed, verifiable and controllable: named model provider and processing location, no training on customer contracts, extracted values shown with their source passage, and features the customer can switch off. A product without AI features is judged on stating so.

0 — AI extraction or review is marketed with no statement of the model, where it runs, or what happens to the contract text.

3 — AI features described as a benefit with a general privacy assurance, but no model provider named, no statement on training, and extracted values shown without their source.

5 — The model provider or subprocessor named, a stated commitment not to train on customer contracts, extracted values linked to the source passage for confirmation, and AI features that can be disabled per account.

8 — AI processing available within the EU, each AI feature documented with its purpose and inputs, accuracy or confidence shown per extracted field, review results traceable to the playbook rule that triggered them, and an EU AI Act position published.

10 — AI is an accountable assistant: customer choice of model or EU-only processing, no retention of contract text by the model provider stated contractually, every AI-suggested value logged with who confirmed or corrected it, and AI off by default until the customer enables it.

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The General Counsel

Extraction is documented and controllable to an unusual degree: the pipeline from OCR through chunked reading is published, prompts and instructions are customer-authored with test-before-activate, re-analysis never overwrites existing values, and every AI-filled field links to its source passage with a verification step. But no model provider is named, there is no statement on training on customer contracts, the EU AI Act appears only as a mention on the legal notice, and we found no public information on disabling AI features per account. 3 4 12 13

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Integrations, signature & exit

How this is scored

How contracts connect to the rest of the company and leave it again: CRM, procurement and ERP integration, e-signature (and which eIDAS level), SSO, an API, and a documented export of documents together with their metadata, versions and audit trail.

0 — No integrations, no API and no stated export; contracts can only be downloaded one by one.

3 — One CRM or storage integration and a bulk download of files, but metadata, versions and audit trail stay behind.

5 — A documented API, integrations with named CRM and storage systems, e-signature integrated with the level stated (simple, advanced or qualified), SSO, and a bulk export of documents with their metadata.

8 — Maintained integrations with systems common in DACH (SAP, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, DATEV-connected or procurement tools), qualified electronic signature available, webhooks, SCIM, and an export that includes versions, approvals and audit trail in an open format.

10 — Exit is designed in: a versioned API with a deprecation policy, a documented migration path in and out with the format stated, deletion after contract end confirmed, and the full repository — files, metadata, obligations and history — handed back without a professional-services fee.

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The General Counsel

An open API with webhooks, SSO, and named integrations including SAP, MS Dynamics, Salesforce, HubSpot, SharePoint and DocuSign, with the digital signature named as FES and unlimited signatures from the Professional tier. Exit is supported contractually — on termination all customer data is provided for download in a readable, editable format — though the export delivers contract data as a spreadsheet with the original PDFs as a separate bulk download, and we found no public information on exporting versions, approvals or the audit trail, or on a qualified signature and SCIM. 2 5 14 15

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity is, where contracts and their extracted data are hosted, and who the subprocessors are — including the AI and OCR providers the text is passed to. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; weighted with care here because a contract repository holds a company's most confidential commitments and those of its counterparties.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and AI processing of unclear location.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent, or AI and OCR processing run outside the EU without saying so.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — AI models, OCR, email delivery, support — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessor list published including AI and OCR providers with locations, and a DPA covering contract data as the customer's processing.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor European, AI processing within the EU on providers the customer can see, certifications (ISO 27001, BSI C5 or equivalent) published.

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The General Counsel

A German contracting entity in Halle, German hosting claimed across the pricing and homepage, and ISO 27001 and the EU AI Act mentioned on the legal notice. The captured pages give different coverage for hosting: the marketing pages state hosting in Germany while the privacy policy covers only the website — hosted in the US by Webflow with US processors such as Google Analytics and Zapier — and we found no public information on product subprocessors, including the AI and OCR providers my clients' contracts would flow through. 1 3 4 5

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: the pricing basis (per user, per contract, per module), which features sit in which tier, add-ons for AI, e-signature volume or integrations, onboarding and migration fees, and the minimum term.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A starting price exists, but the pricing basis (users, contracts, modules) or which features sit in which tier is unstated — the invoice is unknowable.

5 — Tier prices public with the pricing basis and main limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (AI features, signature volume, integrations, extra users or onboarding) is unpriced.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its basis and limits, add-on prices listed, onboarding and migration costs stated, minimum term and VAT treatment given.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given number of users, contracts and signatures, with every add-on, overage and implementation fee published.

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The General Counsel

The tier structure is public — three plans with user and contract limits and their feature mapping — and the terms disclose the fee mechanics: a base fee plus a one-time onboarding fee, add-ons for users, entities and modules, twelve-month minimum renewal and three months' notice for price changes. But every figure is given only "auf Anfrage" (on request), so no annual invoice can be computed from public pages. 2 5

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 2 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

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Sources (15)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing page www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Legal notice www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Terms of service www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Drafting, templates & clause library — found from sitemap www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Drafting, templates & clause library — found from sitemap www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Negotiation, redlining & approval — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Negotiation, redlining & approval — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Repository, deadlines & obligations — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Repository, deadlines & obligations — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 AI extraction & review transparency — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 AI extraction & review transparency — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Integrations, signature & exit — found from sitemap www.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Integrations, signature & exit — found from sitemap support.contracthero.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →