Contract Lifecycle Management

AI-native CLM that goes beyond contracts. Ready in days.

Manage all the work, not just the contracts. Requests from the business, the companies and people involved, and the decisions that follow.

Sandstone contract repository

Folders

Commercial — MSAs412
Vendor / DPA187
NDAs1,024
Employment96
Real Estate38

Counterparties

AAcme Corp.14
WWaterway Holdings9
NNorthwind Labs6
LLumen Health4
GGlobex Inc.3

Knowledge Banks

HR · Legal

Employee IP & NDA Policy

34
Product

IP Ownership & Open Source

21
Finance

Loan Covenant Standards

18
Privacy

GDPR & Data Retention Rules

47
Procurement

Vendor Onboarding Playbook

29

Suggestions

New playbook — Vendor SaaS DPA

14 vendor DPAs match a recurring pattern — draft from your last 4 executed agreements.

Edit Mutual NDA

Tighten breach notification from 30 days to 72 hours, aligned with GDPR.

New approval flow

Route deals over $500k to Finance + GC, inferred from 6 escalations.

New folder — EU GDPR vendors

38 vendor agreements share Art. 28 clauses — group for renewal.

Embedded in sales, procurement, HR, finance, and beyond

HubSpot, SAP, Coupa, Zip, and the rest of the stack. Salesforce, Outlook, Slack, and Teams below are highlights.

Highlights

Opp-1842 · Acme
NDA · SR-0042In review
Messages
Priya Raman · 2hNeed MSA redlines before Friday close.
Legal · 18mFirst pass is in — cap stays 12 months.
Reply on opportunity
Salesforce

Coordinate seller comments and legal responses directly in Salesforce. Complex drafting requests can be completed via form or conversation.

Re: Acme MSA
Can legal take this thread and keep the docs attached?Jordan Chen · 45m
Assign to
CommercialMe
Acme_MSA_v3.docx · syncedSend to Sandstone
GmailorOutlook

Pull specific emails and threads seamlessly to Sandstone. Manage who is assigned and store documents directly from your inbox.

Alex RiveraDM
Today · 2:14 PM
Small vendor deal — can I sign, or does legal need the contract?
@Sandstone can you handle this?
Sandstone · assignedPast threshold — kicked off review and assigned to John Smith.
Open issue in Sandstone
SlackorTeams

Requests and questions, in channels or DMs, are answered instantly.

gmail

Jordan Kim, VP Sales

2 min ago

Urgent: MSA Review for Apex Corp ($2.4M)

Hi Legal — the Apex Corp deal needs an MSA review ASAP. Counterparty sent a redlined draft. Q3 close deadline.

Sandstone

Sandstone Inbox

Request captured and queued for triage

Sandstone Triage

High Priority

Revenue-critical contract — $2.4M enterprise deal

Routed to senior commercial counsel based on deal size threshold

Self-Service

Not eligible for this request type

Work Execution

Routed to Commercial Contracts

Gathering context across 3 systems
Salesforce

Salesforce

Deal record: Apex Corp, $2.4M ARR, Q3 close

Slack

Slack

3 prior negotiation threads with Apex legal team

Ironclad

Ironclad

Previous MSA from 2024 — liability cap was disputed

!

Counterparty previously pushed back on liability caps and indemnification terms

Enterprise MSA Playbook

Liability Cap
2x annual fees (fallback: 1x)flagged
Indemnification
Mutual, standard carve-outsstandard
Term Length
3 years with auto-renewalstandard
Governing Law
Delawarestandard

Urgency: Q3 close — 5 business days remaining

Apex Corp MSA — Redline Review

Reviewed by

Sarah Chen, Senior Counsel

Liability Cap

Approved

Unlimited liability

2x annual fees

IP Ownership

Modified

Joint ownership

Customer retains all IP

Data Processing

Approved

No DPA referenced

Standard DPA attached

Termination

Flagged

90-day notice

60-day notice

Sent for e-signature

Sent to Apex Corp Legal

DocuSign or SandSign

DocuSign or SandSign

Document sent for signature

Notification

Notification sent

#apex-deal

Playbook Updated

Liability Cap

Before

Standard fallback: 1x annual fees

After

Updated fallback: 2x annual fees (approved for enterprise tier)

Memory Stored

Apex Corp always pushes back on liability caps — start at 2x for future deals

Insights from this workflow

2.1 days

Avg. MSA turnaround

94%

Playbook accuracy

73%

Auto-resolved NDAs

4 enterprise deals closing this quarter need MSA review

Liability cap fallback used 12x this month — consider updating default

Suggested Action

Schedule batch review for Q3 pipeline deals to avoid end-of-quarter bottleneck

Workflows for the contracts you run

NDAs, MSAs, vendor agreements, DPAs, employment and equity documents, and marketing, product, and compliance agreements each follow a path from intake through draft, redline, and approval. The workflow uses your playbooks.

See workflows

The fields you need, extracted by AI

Sync from SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, or Drive, or upload directly into Sandstone. Custom fields use AI to extract, run math and logic, and are easy to set up. Over 95% accuracy on leading contract benchmarks.

See the repository

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Ready in days, not a year-long project.

  • A year-long implementation

    Ready in days

  • A new portal for the business

    Salesforce, Word, Outlook, Slack, and Teams

  • A folder of contracts

    Obligations, renewals, and past positions on each contract

  • Approvals in a separate tool

    Approvals inside the workflow

Questions

  • What is contract lifecycle management?

    Contract lifecycle management is how an in-house legal team takes a contract from the request through drafting, review, approval, and renewal. Sandstone runs that lifecycle in the tools the business already uses.

  • How is Sandstone different from a traditional CLM?

    Traditional CLM is an implementation project for contracts. Sandstone is ready in days, and it manages the rest of the legal work too: intake, workflows, approvals, and the repository.

  • Where does the work happen?

    Inside the tools the business already uses, including HubSpot, SAP, Coupa, Zip, Salesforce, Outlook, Slack, and Teams.

  • Which contracts can Sandstone run?

    NDAs, MSAs, vendor agreements, DPAs, employment and equity documents, plus marketing, product, and compliance agreements. Each type follows its own workflow.

  • Can Sandstone replace our CLM?

    Sandstone can serve as a CLM or sit alongside the one you already have. The repository and workflows cover the lifecycle either way.

hypertherm
"Before Sandstone, our legal inbox was a black box of high-volume requests. Now we aren't just working faster — we're finally managing our department with the strategic precision the business expects."

Steve Ucci

General Counsel

Manufacturing

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