Feature · Contract Automation Software

Contract automation software that works for the deal, not just the document.

The common pitch for contract automation software stops at the signed PDF. The real work starts after signature. Obligation tracking. Renewal watchlist. Clause-level reporting. Executed artifact search. Portfolio-level analytics on what the business actually agreed to. Strkr builds the full contract lifecycle inside the CRM so the signed contract becomes a working piece of the business rather than a dead artifact in a shared drive.

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The honest full lifecycle of a contract

Draft, approve, sign, track, renew, archive.

A real contract lifecycle has six stages. Draft generates the paper from a template with merge from live records. Approve routes through internal review with the specific chain the risk profile requires. Sign executes with the counterparty on a compliant signature flow. Track monitors obligations, milestones, and reporting commitments across the contract term. Renew surfaces the next window 120 days before term end with the paper drafted. Archive preserves the executed artifact for the retention window with full-text search. Most contract tools cover the first three. Strkr covers all six because the contract is a working object, not a terminal artifact.

Draft

Templates with merge from live records.

Templates version like code, carry a named owner, and merge from the CRM data model. Legal entity, address, EIN, product mix, pricing, discount, legal clause overrides, start date, term, and uplift schedule all populate in one pass. The rep stops copying from the CRM into the template.

Approve

Rule-driven routing with delegates and escalation.

Approval chains read every field on the deal and the generated document. Discount, legal, security, and finance all route in parallel where possible. Delegated authority covers PTO. Timed escalation covers unresponsive approvers. The chain finishes when the longest step finishes.

Sign

E-signature native, DocuSign fallback.

E-signature ships native. Send for signature from the record. Signer sees the exact version approvers signed off on. For enterprise counterparties that insist on DocuSign or PandaDoc on their side, native integrations hand off at the final signature step only.

Track

Obligations, milestones, reporting commitments.

Executed contracts carry obligation records: specific commitments the business made (uptime, response time, reporting cadence, pricing holds). Obligation records track against the contract term. The common failure where contractual commitments disappear into a shared drive the moment ink dries does not happen.

Renew

120-day window with paper drafted.

Renewal watchlist surfaces every contract 180 days before term end. At 120 days, the flow drafts the renewal paper, opens the renewal opportunity in the right stage, and schedules the CSM prep task. Early starts correlate with higher renewal rates.

Seven-year default retention, full-text search.

Executed artifacts retain for seven years by default, with the retention window configurable per tenant. Full-text search covers the archive. Clause-level search finds every contract carrying a specific clause variant. Legal discovery takes seconds.

Portfolio analytics

What the business actually agreed to, visibly.

Portfolio dashboards show total ARR under contract, uplift exposure, SLA commitments by tier, non-standard clause distribution, and renewal pipeline. The CFO, GC, and CRO walk into the quarterly review with the real contract portfolio in one view.

Clause-level reporting

Which contracts carry which variants.

Clause-level reporting answers which contracts carry the non-standard SLA, which carry the MFN clause, which carry the specific limitation of liability variant. The common failure where legal cannot answer "how exposed are we on this clause across the portfolio" does not happen.

Audit log

Every stage, every actor, every timestamp.

The audit log captures every edit, every approval, every signature, every obligation update, and every renewal action. Legal and compliance reviewers walk the full lifecycle for a specific contract in seconds instead of reconstructing from email.

Obligation tracking that matters after signature

The contractual commitments the business has to actually keep.

The post-signature world is where most contract tools quit. The signed PDF lands in a drive folder and the business forgets what it actually agreed to. The SLA that promises 99.95 percent uptime. The MFN clause that triggers a repricing event. The reporting commitment that requires a quarterly data export. The termination for convenience window that opens at 24 months. Strkr builds obligation tracking as a first-class primitive so every commitment the business made shows on the contract record with the owner, the status, and the next action.

Obligation records

Named commitments on every contract.

Each executed contract carries obligation records: specific commitments with description, owner, frequency, next-due date, and status. The common failure where contractual commitments disappear after signature does not happen because the commitments live on the record.

SLA tracking

Uptime, response time, resolution time.

SLA obligations track against the operational reality. Uptime commits track against the actual monitoring data. Response time commits track against the actual support metrics. SLA breaches surface in a dashboard before the counterparty raises them.

Reporting commitments

Quarterly, monthly, ad-hoc, on schedule.

Reporting commitments (quarterly usage reports, monthly compliance attestations, annual security questionnaire responses) schedule as recurring tasks. The owner sees the next-due date. The common failure where a reporting commitment slips a quarter before anybody notices does not happen.

MFN clauses

Most-favored-nation flagged on the account.

MFN clauses carry a flag on the account. When pricing changes elsewhere in the portfolio, the MFN watchlist surfaces the accounts that trigger a repricing event. The common failure where an MFN clause creates a surprise repricing event does not happen.

Price holds

Pricing commitments with expiration dates.

Price holds carry start and end dates on the contract record. Mid-term expansion attempts that fall inside a hold window render the held price. The common failure where mid-term expansion gets quoted at new pricing against a held price commitment does not happen.

Termination windows

The window the counterparty can walk.

Termination for convenience windows carry the start date, end date, and notice period on the contract record. The CSM running account health sees the window alongside the renewal timeline. The relationship investment steps up before the window opens, not after.

Milestones

Deliverables with dates and acceptance criteria.

Project-based contracts carry milestones with target dates, acceptance criteria, and status. The delivery team sees the full commitment stack on the contract. The common failure where delivery runs blind to the contract milestones does not happen.

Compliance obligations

HIPAA BAA, DPA, security audit commitments.

Compliance obligations (annual HIPAA BAA refresh, DPA review cadence, security audit response commitments) track on the contract. The compliance team runs the annual review with the full set of commitments in one view.

Obligation alerts

A ping before the deadline, not after.

Obligation alerts fire a configurable window before the next-due date. Email, Slack, or SMS through Strkr Messaging. The owner sees the commitment approaching before it becomes a late obligation.

The renewal motion the sales team actually needs

Watchlist, brief, paper, approval, signature, 120 days.

The renewal motion is the single most undervalued workflow in revenue operations. Most organizations run renewal paper in the last two weeks before term end, with a frantic push from the CSM to get it signed. The result is renewal rates that run 5 to 10 points below what they could be and a predictable late-quarter scramble. Strkr builds the renewal motion to start 120 days out by default with the full workflow pre-staged. The CSM runs a sustainable rhythm. Renewal rates lift visibly in the first quarter the motion runs on the new cadence.

Renewal watchlist

Every renewal in the next 180 days.

The watchlist shows every active renewal in the next 180 days, sorted by close date, filterable by health tier, segment, and owner. The CSM manager runs the week off the watchlist. The number of renewals in red tier with less than 60 days to close is the single most important risk metric.

120-day trigger

Prep task, renewal brief, paper drafted.

When a renewal falls inside 120 days, the flow drops a prep task on the owner, generates a renewal brief, drafts the renewal paper, and opens the renewal opportunity in the right stage. The motion starts four months out, not a week out.

Renewal brief

Value delivered, usage, open items, expansion.

The renewal brief covers value delivered, usage momentum, open items, expansion opportunity, and risk flags. The CSM edits the draft and takes it into the customer conversation. The opening pitch has receipts.

Uplift calculation

The number backed by the contract.

The uplift calculation pulls from the contract: scheduled uplift terms, mid-term expansion captured during the current term, and any pricing changes applicable to the renewal. The CSM sees the number the paper will actually show.

Multi-year renewal

The three-year curve plotted.

For multi-year contracts, the renewal timeline shows every scheduled uplift, every anniversary, and the final end date. Finance and sales both see the same shape. Negotiations happen with the full curve in view, not a one-year snapshot.

Co-term handling

Multiple contracts aligned on one date.

Accounts with multiple active contracts can co-term under one aligned renewal date. The system models the alignment, computes the prorated bridge, and tracks the combined ARR against the aligned date.

Approval chain

Standard renewal auto-approves, non-standard routes.

Standard renewals at or below a configured uplift auto-approve. Non-standard renewals (deeper discount, longer term, new terms) route through the discount, legal, and finance chain with the full approval history.

Risk-weighted queue

Red renewals get the attention first.

The watchlist weights by health tier. Red tier renewals surface at the top of the queue with the save plan next to them. The CSM manager assigns weekly focus starting from the ten accounts most at risk, not the ten accounts closing soonest.

Post-renewal flow

The signed renewal fires a dozen downstream actions.

A countersigned renewal extends the contract term, updates the ARR on the account, resets the renewal watchlist to the new end date, generates the welcome-back communication, and notifies the CSM of the completed motion.

Portfolio-level analytics on what the business agreed to

The dashboards legal, finance, and sales all read.

The contract portfolio of a mid-sized business has specific questions three different functions ask. The CFO asks what the total ARR under contract looks like, where the renewal risk sits, and what pricing holds are in flight. The GC asks which non-standard clauses the portfolio carries, which MFN exposures exist, and which indemnity caps need attention. The CRO asks which renewals are tracking green, which expansion plays are in flight, and which deals carry non-standard terms that need special handling. Strkr builds the portfolio dashboards that answer each function's questions on the same dataset.

ARR under contract

The current revenue reality.

The ARR dashboard shows total ARR under contract, net new ARR by quarter, churn ARR, and expansion ARR. The CFO walks into the board meeting with the real number instead of a reconciled approximation.

Uplift exposure

What the next 12 months promise.

The uplift exposure dashboard shows scheduled contractual uplifts across the next 12 months by month, by segment, by owner. Finance sees the committed revenue growth. The common failure where committed uplift lives in a side spreadsheet does not happen.

SLA exposure

What the business committed on performance.

The SLA exposure dashboard shows every contract with its SLA tier and the business operational reality against that commitment. Breaches surface before the counterparty raises them.

Non-standard clause distribution

The GC walks the exposure.

The non-standard clause dashboard shows which clauses have been overridden across the portfolio, which accounts carry which overrides, and what the aggregate exposure looks like. The GC answers "how exposed are we on this clause" in seconds.

MFN exposure

The repricing watchlist.

The MFN exposure dashboard shows every account carrying an MFN clause with the current pricing tier. Pricing changes elsewhere trigger a repricing watchlist. The CFO sees the exposure before the counterparty raises it.

Renewal pipeline

Marketing-sourced pipeline, with the lineage visible.

The renewal pipeline dashboard shows every renewal in flight by segment, by stage, by health tier, by close date. The CRO walks into the quarterly review with the renewal narrative in one view.

Legal volume

Documents reviewed per lawyer per week.

The legal volume dashboard shows documents reviewed per lawyer per week, average review time per document type, reopen rate, and non-standard clause frequency. The GC presenting to the executive team has the numbers.

Vendor contracts

What the business bought, with the terms.

Vendor contract dashboards show the same shape as customer contracts: term, renewal date, ARR commitment, SLA commitments, non-standard clauses. Procurement runs the vendor portfolio with the same discipline as the customer portfolio.

Assistant Q and A

Ask Strkr AI about the portfolio.

The CFO asks "what is the ARR under contract in Q3" or "which accounts carry an MFN clause" and gets an answer citing the specific records. The portfolio analytics stops being a dashboard and starts being a conversation.

How contract automation plugs into the rest of Strkr

The signed contract as a working object on the record.

A signed contract that lives in a drive folder is a dead artifact. A signed contract that updates the account, carries obligation records, feeds the renewal watchlist, and triggers downstream flows is a working piece of the business. Strkr builds the contract stack as a first-class citizen of the platform so every post-signature action runs natively on the same record, with the same assistant, the same reporting layer, and the same compliance posture.

CRM native

Contracts live on the account record.

Every executed contract posts to the account record under the Documents panel. The CSM, the sales rep, and the finance partner all see the same contract reality. The paper trail follows the relationship.

Native messaging

Reminders for obligations and renewals.

Strkr Messaging sends reminders for obligation due dates, renewal windows opening, and signature pending. Delivery, opt-out, and consent follow the platform compliance posture.

Native documents

Templates, clauses, approvals, signature.

The document stack is native. Templates version like code. The clause library handles the regulatory matrix. Approval chains route by rule. E-signature ships native.

Native assistant

Ask Strkr AI about the contract.

The assistant reads the contract archive. Questions like "which contracts have an MFN clause expiring in Q3" or "what is the uplift schedule on the top ten accounts" return answers citing the specific documents.

Native reporting

Portfolio analytics for every function.

Dashboards cover ARR under contract, uplift exposure, SLA exposure, non-standard clause distribution, MFN exposure, renewal pipeline, and legal volume. The CFO, GC, and CRO walk into the quarterly review with the real portfolio.

Flows

Automation triggered by contract events.

Contract signed, contract approved, contract renewed, obligation due, renewal window opened: each triggers Strkr flows. Compose any sequence that fits the business.

Open APIs

Every event signed, every contract readable.

Every contract event emits a signed webhook. Every template and every executed contract is readable through the REST API. External systems read from the same source.

Compliance posture

HIPAA BAA, SOC 2 Type II in progress.

The compliance posture inherits uniformly. HIPAA Business Associate Agreements for regulated tenants. SOC 2 Type II audit in progress with Type I available on request. GDPR data residency.

Flat seat pricing

No per-contract fee, no per-signature fee.

Strkr charges flat per seat. No per-contract fee. No per-signature fee. No credit meter on the assistant. The portfolio runs through the system without multiplying the bill.

Contract automation software that treats the contract as a working object.

Templates, clauses, approvals, signature, obligations, renewals, archive, portfolio analytics. All on flat per-seat pricing with no per-contract fee. Open a signed contract on your real portfolio and see how obligation tracking and renewal watchlist turn dead paper into a working piece of the business.

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Common questions

What buyers ask about this feature.

What is contract automation software and how does it cover the full lifecycle?

Contract automation software covers the full lifecycle of a business contract: draft from templates with merge from live records, approve through internal review chains, sign with e-signature on a compliant flow, track obligations and commitments across the term, renew with the paper drafted 120 days before term end, and archive the executed artifact for the retention window with full-text search. Most contract tools cover the first three stages. Strkr covers all six because the contract is a working object (obligations, commitments, renewal pipeline), not a terminal artifact that stops mattering after signature.

How does obligation tracking work after signature?

Executed contracts carry obligation records: specific commitments with description, owner, frequency, next-due date, and status. SLA commitments track against operational reality (uptime monitoring data, support response metrics). Reporting commitments schedule as recurring tasks. MFN clauses flag on the account. Price holds carry start and end dates. Termination windows carry the start, end, and notice period. Milestones carry target dates and acceptance criteria. Compliance obligations track annual refresh cadences. Alerts fire a configurable window before each next-due date. The common failure where contractual commitments disappear into a shared drive after signature does not happen.

What does the renewal motion look like in Strkr?

The renewal watchlist shows every active renewal in the next 180 days, sorted by close date, filterable by health tier, segment, and owner. When a renewal falls inside 120 days of term end, the flow drops a prep task on the owner, generates a renewal brief with value delivered and usage momentum, drafts the renewal paper, and opens the renewal opportunity in the right stage. Uplift calculations pull from the contract: scheduled uplift terms plus mid-term expansion captured during the current term. Multi-year contracts render the full uplift schedule on a single timeline. Co-termed contracts align under one renewal date with the prorated bridge computed automatically. The motion starts four months out by default, which correlates with higher renewal rates.

Can we track portfolio-level analytics on the contract book?

Yes. Portfolio dashboards cover total ARR under contract, uplift exposure across the next 12 months, SLA exposure by tier, non-standard clause distribution, MFN exposure, renewal pipeline, legal volume, and vendor contract analytics. Clause-level reporting answers which contracts carry which variants (which have the non-standard SLA, which have the MFN clause, which have the specific limitation of liability variant). The CFO, GC, and CRO walk into the quarterly review with the real contract portfolio in one view instead of a reconciled approximation from three separate reports.

How does Strkr handle enterprise counterparties that insist on DocuSign on their side?

E-signature is native in Strkr. Sending for signature, tracking delivery and open events, countersignature, and archival of the signed PDF all happen inside the platform with no second vendor. For enterprise counterparties that insist on DocuSign or PandaDoc on their side, Strkr integrates with both as signature destinations. The template library, the merge fields, the clause library, and the approval chain still run inside Strkr, and only the final signature step hands off. The signed artifact posts back to the record so the archive, the obligation records, and the audit log stay intact.

Does contract automation software ship on every tier or is it an add-on?

The full contract automation stack (templates, clause library, approval chains, e-signature, obligation tracking, renewal watchlist, archive, portfolio analytics, audit log) ships on every paid tier at no extra charge. Strkr charges flat per seat with no per-contract fee, no per-signature fee, and no credit meter on the assistant. There is no separate contract SKU and no implementation partner requirement to connect the pieces because the pieces are the same system as the CRM.

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