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Sandstone vs Icertis: Enterprise Contract Intelligence, or AI-Native CLM for Legal?
Icertis is an enterprise contract intelligence platform, powered by its Vera AI, built to connect contracts across legal, procurement, sales, and finance at global scale. Sandstone is AI-native CLM for in-house legal: it captures requests wherever they arrive, drafts and redlines against your playbook, and connects every contract to the counterparty, deal, and decisions behind it, without a lengthy configuration project first.
Sandstone vs Icertis
| Capability | Sandstone |  Icertis |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | AI-native contract lifecycle management for in-house legal, including the work around contracts | Enterprise-wide contract intelligence connecting agreements, data, and systems |
| Primary buyers | In-house legal teams, with the business requesting work in the tools it already uses | Legal, procurement, sales, and finance at global enterprises |
| Intake | Requests captured from Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, ServiceNow, Jira, Asana, Zip, Coupa, Salesforce, and other business systems in whatever form they arrive | Contract requests launched through configured workflows and connected enterprise systems |
| Triage | Agents interpret intent and route by expertise and capacity, with context attached | Routing driven by configured contract workflows |
| Business context | Counterparty history, prior decisions, and relationships surfaced before work starts | Contract data linked to enterprise systems such as SAP |
| Redlining and drafting | Playbook-driven, attorney-controlled, in Sandstone or in Word through the add-in | AI-powered redlining and negotiation (NegotiateAI) with playbook creation |
| Repository and obligations | Contracts connected to matters, counterparties, and obligations, searchable as precedent at the moment of work | Enterprise contract repository with portfolio-wide analytics and obligation management |
| Enterprise integrations | Slack, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Coupa, and existing contract systems, with permissions mapped across every integration | Deep SAP integration, including SAP Ariba, plus other ERP and CRM systems |
| CLM coverage | Replaces a CLM for teams that want intake, execution, and system of record in one platform, and runs alongside one where an existing investment makes that the better call | Full contract lifecycle management at enterprise scale |
| Implementation | Starts from the documents, templates, and redlines your team already has, with mapped ingestion of legacy systems | Enterprise implementations, typically with consulting or systems integrator support |
| Best fit for | Fortune 1000 and large enterprises whose bottleneck is the volume and variety of inbound legal work, not only contract throughput | Global enterprises managing customer, supplier, and partner contracts at very large scale across multiple functions |
Based on publicly available information as of October 2026. Names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. If anything here is inaccurate or out of date, contact us and we'll update it.
Frequently asked questions
For in-house legal teams, often yes. Icertis is built as an enterprise-wide contract intelligence layer, frequently co-owned by procurement and finance. Sandstone is built for legal: intake, playbook redlining, approvals, signature, and searchable precedent. Where Icertis already runs procurement contracting across the enterprise, Sandstone typically runs alongside it for legal's work.
Yes. Sandstone connects to existing contract systems rather than requiring a second repository, so legal can handle intake, review, and the questions that never become contracts while Icertis remains the system of record where it is embedded.
It depends on scale and ownership. Icertis is sized for large global enterprises with multi-function contracting. Teams whose main need is moving legal work faster, without an enterprise implementation, usually reach value sooner with a platform built for legal.
Sandstone starts from the templates, redlines, and agreements you already have, rather than a configuration project. Ask us for a timeline against your own request mix and repository size and we'll put it in writing.
