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Stop letting supplier obligations hide in documents.

Extract key dates, terms and actions, then route them to people with the authority to decide.

For founder-led businesses where contracts live across inboxes and folders, renewals appear late and operational obligations have no owner. Clerq maps the contract lifecycle and legal review boundaries before recommending automation.

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Plain-English definition

Supplier contract operations automation extracts obligations, dates and review triggers, then assigns each decision to an authorised person.

How the Diagnostic tests it

Signs contract operations are exposed

  • Signed versions are spread across inboxes, drives and team folders.
  • Renewal and termination dates are tracked manually or not at all.
  • Payment, service and insurance obligations lack named owners.
  • Routine extraction consumes legal or senior management time.

What the target workflow does

  • Ingests approved contract files and records source and version.
  • Extracts defined dates, commercial terms and operational obligations.
  • Flags uncertainty, unusual wording and missing information for review.
  • Creates reminders and routes action to an accountable owner.
Controls and ownership

Extraction supports review. It is not legal advice.

People with appropriate authority remain responsible for interpreting, accepting and acting on contract terms.

Area
Automated preparation
Human control
Document identity
Record file, counterparty, version and signature status.
The business confirms the executed document and source.
Term extraction
Extract approved fields with confidence and page references.
People verify material, unclear or unusual terms.
Legal judgement
Flag clauses against an agreed review policy.
Qualified advisers or authorised people interpret and decide.
Obligations
Create reminders and evidence-backed action records.
Named owners complete, defer or escalate the action.
Relevant systems

Fit the workflow around your documents and owners.

Exact storage and routing are confirmed during the Diagnostic. Systems already within Clerq's stated scope include:

NotionSlackHubSpot

Start with a two-week Diagnostic.

Clerq samples documents, maps review and renewal steps, identifies required fields and defines where legal or management approval is mandatory.

  • From £2,500
  • No automated legal judgement
  • Three months of Run included after Build
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Questions

Supplier contract operations FAQ

Does Clerq provide legal advice?
No. The workflow can extract, organise and flag information. Interpretation and legal decisions remain with appropriately qualified or authorised people.
Can it find auto-renewal and termination dates?
Those are common extraction fields, but material dates should carry a source reference and human verification where the wording is unclear or consequential.
What document formats can be handled?
The existing Clerq site describes PDF and DOCX support. The Diagnostic checks the quality, versions and storage of your actual documents before confirming a design.
Who owns the reminders?
Every obligation or decision should route to a named role with the authority to act, plus an escalation route where no action is recorded.
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Start with a 20-minute fit call or review the illustrative Diagnostic first.

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