Contract Insights

We did it!

CobbleStone Software has completed its widely anticipated million-clause project! The goal of this project (which has been met) was to nourish and enhance CobbleStone's industry-leading artificial intelligence engine with machine learning—VISDOM^® AI.

Let's discuss in more detail what the completion of this million-clause initiative means to contract managers and other business professionals using CobbleStone's award-winning contract management, eProcurement, and eSourcing suite, CobbleStone Contract Insight^®.

Efficiency and accuracy are of vital importance when managing contracts. Many organizations fear they may fall behind as more and more of their peers embrace automation through artificial intelligence.

One notable area AI has positively transformed is contract summarization. With the advent of AI-powered contract summarizers, legal operations teams can now optimize contract lifecycle processes like never before. In this blog post, let's explore five ways contract summarization with AI-backed contract management software can change the game of legal operations.

The process of redlining contracts for contract negotiation can be challenging if done improperly.

Organizations that edit documents manually in Microsoft Word can increase the chances of human errors. What’s more, constant back-and-forth edits via emailed documents can result in version control mistakes and broken formats. Mission-critical clauses and sections can either be left out of a legal document or improperly positioned. Additionally, the amount of time spent on tedious, outdated redlining processes can result in lost revenue and opportunities.

Thankfully, your legal team can start saving time on the contract negotiation process with CobbleStone’s user-friendly auto-redlining tool - powered by VISDOM® artificial intelligence. Here’s how to leverage auto-redlining within CobbleStone Contract Insight® contract management software.

In an era where "AI is coming for lawyers," the legal community is abuzz with the question: "Will AI replace lawyers?" The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in law and legal practice has led to a paradigm shift, raising concerns about artificial intelligence replacing lawyers. However, it's crucial to understand that AI in the legal field is not a harbinger of replacement but a catalyst for transformation. To that end, let’s talk about legal professionals, lawyers, AI, and business innovation.

Managing contracts can be challenging for legal, procurement, and contract management professionals, especially when primarily relying on manual processes.

Managing the contract lifecycle can prove difficult with spreadsheets, emails, filing cabinets, and other disparate tools.

Contract lifecycle management requires careful planning, the right technology, a well-planned contract strategy, and holistic contract lifecycle automation processes.  Thankfully, robust contract management softwarewith a foundation of AI and machine learning can help automate contract lifecycle management processes.

In April 2022, we announced CobbleStone's exciting million-clause initiative to nourish and enhance VISDOM® AI - CobbleStone Software's proprietary contract intelligence engine with machine learning.  In June 2022, we announced that 330K contract clauses had been fed to VISDOM contract AI.  Now, we are thrilled to announce that over 500,000 clauses have been "fed" to VISDOM thus far!  This stage in the momentous 1,000,000 contract clause project is just one of many testaments to why CobbleStone® has been hailed as the leader in contract management software.

Digital transformation is the future of contract management – whether legal operations professionals like it or not. Organizations not leveraging contract intelligence may very well encounter a bleak contract lifecycle management future.

As contract management continuously evolves amidst ongoing digital transformation, it's important to pursue smart goals that can keep up with the times.  Rather than fall behind with manual contract management processes that require disparate tools - such as email, spreadsheets, and shared drives – read on to see how you can leverage future-minded contract management software tools to fulfill your contract management goals successfully.