Stop Finding Out a Contract Expired When It's Too Late
M-Files for Contracts connects every agreement to the client, vendor, or project it belongs to — with automated clause assembly, Microsoft 365 redlining, e-signatures, and 90/60/30-day renewal alerts built right in.
Track obligation deadlines, Ment clause generation, e-signatures, and auto-renewals in a unified governed vault.
Sound familiar?
Research by World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC) reveals that poor contract governance erodes an average of 9.2% of annual contract value through missed renewals, untracked obligations, and approval bottlenecks:
Contracts live as files, not as information
A signed contract gets saved to a folder, and everything that actually matters about it — who it's with, when it renews, what it obligates you to — gets tracked separately in Excel, if it's tracked at all. As contract volume grows, so does the risk that something important gets missed.
Renewals and obligations get missed
Nobody's actively ignoring a contract's key dates — there's just no system forcing them into view before the 60- or 90-day notice window closes. An auto-renewal locks you in for another year, or a CPI price-review milestone passes unnoticed.
Approvals stall in inboxes
A contract needs three people to review and approve it, and getting there means chasing each one individually by email. Nobody's sure where it's actually stuck until someone asks.
Audit or dispute prep means reconstructing history
When a contract's history actually matters — a dispute, an audit, a renewal negotiation — someone has to piece together who approved what and when from email threads and file timestamps, because none of it was captured as it happened.
Contracts connected to the business they belong to
Not a separate contract repository to maintain — the same M-Files vault your team already uses, pre-configured with M-Files for Contracts so agreements are linked to the client, project, and obligations they relate to.
Every Contract in Context
A contract isn't just a file — it's linked to the client, project, or supplier it belongs to, with all variations, NDAs, statements of work (SOWs), and current signed versions attached. No more separate spreadsheet tracking what the file itself doesn't show.
Renewals and Obligations, Tracked Automatically
Key dates — renewal, notice periods, insurance expiry, milestone obligations — are captured as metadata (or extracted via M-Files Aino AI), not buried in PDF scans. Automated 90/60/30-day reminders alert contract owners before notice windows close.
Approvals That Actually Move
Contracts route through drafting, legal review, and commercial delegation approvals automatically, with everyone notified in Microsoft Teams and Outlook. No-code clause automation (M-Files Ment) lets staff generate compliant contracts in minutes.
Sign Without Leaving the Platform
Legally binding e-signatures built directly into the workflow — integrating natively with Adobe Sign, DocuSign, and Visma Sign. Once signed, the executed PDF is automatically locked as a formal record and its renewal timer begins.
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Never find out about a missed renewal after the fact.
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