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Maturity assessments for in-house teams

See where yourcontractmanagementreally stands.

Four focused assessments, built for in-house legal, finance, and ops leaders who want a defensible read on their data, people, and financial readiness for the contract operating model ahead.

~45
Anchored questions
0–4
Per-question scoring
PDF
Shareable readiness report

The evidence

The problem starts with the contracts, not the AI

Independent research on how organizations manage contracts today, from EY and Harvard Law School's 2021 survey of 1,000 law department and contracting leaders.

90%1

Of organizations report having difficulty locating contracts (2021)

78%2

Of organizations don't systematically track contractual obligations (2021)

The maturity climb

From ad hoc to optimized.

Every contract operation sits somewhere on this ladder. Here is what each rung looks like — and the climb the assessments map.

  1. Ad hoc

    0+ / 100

    Contracts live in inboxes and shared drives. Every renewal is a surprise.

  2. Emerging

    25+ / 100

    A few templates and a tracker exist — but they lean on the people who made them.

  3. Defined

    50+ / 100

    Process is documented and followed. Data is structured enough to report on.

  4. Established

    75+ / 100

    Systems enforce the process. Metrics are trusted; risk is priced, not guessed.

  5. Optimized

    90+ / 100

    The operating model runs itself and improves — AI and automation compound.

The assessments score where your contract operation stands — and the gap to the next rung. The programs are how you close it.

See how you climb↓

The full product line

See where you stand. Then move.

Scored assessments and the programs that stack them — priced so the more you take on, the less each piece costs.

Every assessment is built on the same foundation — the Bedrock Framework: five pillars of contract operations →

Sources

  1. 1. Ninety percent of organizations report having difficulty locating contracts. EY and Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, contracting report, June 2021 — Draws on 1,000 law department and contracting leaders. 2021 data, so it predates current AI tooling. EY sells contract managed services, so the publisher has a commercial interest in the finding.
  2. 2. Seventy-eight percent of organizations say they don't systematically track contractual obligations. EY and Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, contracting report, June 2021 — Draws on 1,000 law department and contracting leaders. 2021 data, so it predates current AI tooling. EY sells contract managed services, so the publisher has a commercial interest in the finding.

Independent, peer-reviewed, and pre-registered sources are weighted above vendor-sponsored ones; vendor figures are labeled as claims. Figures current to mid-2026.