Contracts should be managed as obligations, not documents

Module · Legal and Contractual

Contracts are fought over and then filed. What was promised, by whom, by when, and whether it actually happened, is the part almost nobody systematically tracks.

Prophesee Legal extracts the obligation rather than filing the document, and alerts the person who actually has to deliver it.

Classification and mappingEvidence and lineageContinuous monitoringChange to document conformanceScenario and attribution
The shift

You negotiated the obligation. Nobody is tracking it.

Contracts are fought over and then filed. What was promised, by whom, by when, and whether it actually happened, is the part almost nobody systematically tracks. Value leaks quietly after signature.

78%
Do not systematically track contractual obligations
90%
Report difficulty locating contracts due to inadequate systems
9.2%
Of contract value lost, the long-standing WorldCC benchmark

Sources: EY Law and Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, Global Contracting Study (n=1,000, 22 countries) · World Commerce and Contracting, 2026 · EY Law General Counsel study, 2025 (n=1,000).

A new approach

Extract the obligation, not the document

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Today · Contract repository

Obligations sit inside PDF clauses. There is no structured owner, trigger, deadline or evidence field, so nothing can be tracked or alerted on.

Extract the obligation, not the document

Clauses parsed into structured obligations with owner, trigger, deadline and evidence requirement. Ask in plain language which contracts carry a given commitment.

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Today · Manual collection

A corporate investigation starts with identifying the right custodian, then collecting from every system quickly, defensibly and without leaking.

Deadlines and deviations alert

Renewal windows, price adjustment dates, service credits and non-standard terms are rules. Breach of any of them raises an alert to the accountable owner.

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Today · Diary and spreadsheet

Renewal, auto-renew, price adjustment and service credit windows are tracked by hand, and WorldCC puts post-signature loss at 9.2% of contract value.

Predict where performance slips

Obligation breach risk scored by counterparty, contract type and business unit, from your own delivery history.

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Today · Estimate and argue

Portfolio exposure to a supplier failure or a rate change is estimated, then argued about, because there is no model behind it.

Model the exposure

Test a regulatory change, a supplier failure or a renegotiation across the whole portfolio before the first letter goes out.

From challenge to decision

Turning contracts into accountable actions

Problem: Classification and mapping
What produces it today: Contract repository

Obligations sit inside PDF clauses. There is no structured owner, trigger, deadline or evidence field, so nothing can be tracked or alerted on.

Engine: nexus icon Nexus
The applications that replace it: Obligation ExtractionObligation Ownership
Problem: Evidence and lineage
What produces it today: Manual collection

A corporate investigation starts with identifying the right custodian, then collecting from every system quickly, defensibly and without leaking.

Engine: nexus icon Nexuspulse icon Pulse
The applications that replace it: Ask The Contract EstateObligation Extraction
Problem: Continuous monitoring
What produces it today: Diary and spreadsheet

Renewal, auto-renew, price adjustment and service credit windows are tracked by hand, and WorldCC puts post-signature loss at 9.2% of contract value.

Engine: pulse icon Pulse
The applications that replace it: Renewal And Price WindowsValue Leakage Detection
Problem: Change to document conformance
What produces it today: Nothing at all

A rule changes and nothing identifies the clauses and contracts it affects. 60% of general counsel cannot monitor regulatory change across jurisdictions.

Engine: nexus icon Nexus
The applications that replace it: Change To ClauseAsk The Contract Estate
Problem: Scenario and attribution
What produces it today: Estimate and argue

Portfolio exposure to a supplier failure or a rate change is estimated, then argued about, because there is no model behind it.

Engine: horizon icon Horizon
The applications that replace it: Portfolio Exposure ModelRenegotiation Scenario
What becomes possible

16 AI applications that could be relevant

A sample of what becomes possible on the decision layer, not a fixed list: each application draws on the same data foundation and audit trail, and new ones are configured on the engines, not built from scratch.

Nexus
Obligation Extraction

Executed contracts parsed into obligations with owner, trigger, deadline and evidence.

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Obligation Ownership

Each obligation routed to the person who actually has to deliver it.

Nexus
Ask The Contract Estate

Which contracts carry this term, asked in plain language, answered with the clauses.

Nexus
Change To Clause

A rule change traced to the exact clauses and contracts it affects.

Nexus
One Version Of The Entity

Every record of an employee or company reconciled into one identity across HR, procurement and payments.

Nexus
Investigation File Assembly

The custodians, contracts, payments and communications for a subject pulled into one file, with privilege flagged.

Nexus
Local Law And Works Council

An application or investigation step reconciled against local employment, privacy and works council rules first.

Pulse
Renewal And Price Windows

Renewal, auto-renew and price adjustment dates alert the owner with time to act.

Pulse
Value Leakage Detection

Invoices, volumes and scope checked against what the contract actually says.

Foresight
Counsel Spend Forecast

Which matters are heading for external counsel, and what the work would cost if it goes there.

Foresight
Counterparty Forecast

Which counterparties are most likely to underdeliver against their obligations.

Foresight
Dispute Likelihood Scoring

Contracts heading for dispute flagged from clause structure and live performance.

Foresight
Obligation Breach Risk

Obligation breach risk scored by counterparty, contract type and business unit, from your own delivery history.

Horizon
Portfolio Exposure Model

A supplier failure or a rate change tested across the whole portfolio first.

Horizon
Renegotiation Scenario

Model a term change across the estate before the first letter goes out.

Horizon
Matter Strategy Scenarios

Settle, defend or escalate modelled on cost, duration and exposure before the decision is taken.

How work changes

A day in a proactive legal function

Today: Obligations sit in PDFs nobody opens again after signature.

With Prophesee:
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Obligations, not documents

Clauses parsed into commitments, each with an owner, a trigger and a deadline.

Today: The renewal window closes before anyone notices it opened.

With Prophesee:
11:00pulse icon Pulse
The renewal you would have missed

A price adjustment window and a service credit threshold alert to the accountable owner, not to legal.

Today: Someone searches three contract systems by hand.

With Prophesee:
14:00nexus icon Nexus
Which contracts carry this?

Asked in plain language across every contract system, answered with the clauses themselves.

Today: Exposure is estimated, and then argued about.

With Prophesee:
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Model the exposure

A supplier failure tested across the whole portfolio before the first letter goes out.

Important obligations should never depend on memory.

Track the obligation, not the document

We agree the metric and the baseline in week one, and measure the result on your data.