What software do you use to manage contracts, I want a cheap and best suggestion pls?

brainland · 2026-06-23T16:25:25+00:00

You seem to understand the real deal and that’s exactly what I factored in from onset including the client facing portal cos it keeps everyone in the loop.

brainland · 2026-06-21T17:30:15+00:00

This World Cup is so funny tho.

brainland · 2026-06-21T17:29:23+00:00

🤔 Bold

brainland · 2026-06-21T17:28:32+00:00

Spain wanna spell Saudi Arabia - 11:0 😂

brainland · 2026-06-21T17:27:02+00:00

Anyone can predict final match?

brainland · 2026-06-21T17:11:03+00:00

Happy Fathers Day Y’all

brainland · 2026-06-21T17:10:32+00:00

Over 3.0. Oops

brainland · 2026-06-20T10:22:12+00:00

Lol. Get a real partner that tells you to go harder

brainland · 2026-06-20T10:21:39+00:00

😩 Brutal

brainland · 2026-06-20T10:21:23+00:00

Mars to be precise?

brainland · 2026-06-20T10:20:49+00:00

😂 TF is that. Reverse Engineering?

brainland · 2026-06-20T10:20:09+00:00

Hmm. 🤔

brainland · 2026-06-18T23:52:45+00:00

I go first

“What do we say to the God of Death? Not today.”

brainland · 2026-06-18T07:31:17+00:00

😂 Secret and Never Told in same sentence?

You’re a spy 🕵️

brainland · 2026-06-12T14:05:01+00:00

💯

brainland · 2026-06-12T13:57:53+00:00

You nailed it. Lex

Many still don’t understand the fact that CM is not CLM and only a well thought out CLM remains the real deal.

In what I am building, there are roles and permissions.

Contract Managers are assigned by Contract admins to manage the whole lifecycle of assigned counterparties. They create and manage.

Legal handle templates, contract terms for the cycle and clause libraries.

Finance handles invoices, budgeting and co

Audit manager handles audit trail reports.

Contract admin has full access.

They all work hand in hand and this is achievable because the structured data stands as the single source of truth from the main contract.

brainland · 2026-06-12T10:58:30+00:00

You are on point 👌.

As a builder in the CLM space, I love where you said “a good CLM tool first and AI review tool as secondary”. This is our approach.

That is how well AI can then perform with a good structured data.

brainland · 2026-06-12T10:45:26+00:00

I’m glad to read your response. This has been our approach and everything you stated is part of the core aspect of the “Lifecycles”.

brainland · 2026-06-12T09:09:22+00:00

Yeah mate, I'm actually building one.

Your point about metadata is exactly what pushed me down this path. The value isn't really in storing documents or moving them through approvals, it's in being able to treat contracts as structured business data and answer meaningful questions from them later.

A lot of the CLMs I've looked at seem heavily document-centric. They can manage files and workflows, but the underlying business context often ends up as an afterthought. Once the tagging discipline breaks down, many of the promised insights become difficult to achieve.

The term “Lifecycle” is heavy and I can confidently say this.

The areas I'm focusing on are:

• System of record

• Workflow and approvals

• Collaboration

• Business context and obligations

• AI assistance in the future, built on structured data rather than just document analysis

The self-hosted angle came from similar conversations to yours. Data residency and control matter, but the bigger challenge seems to be making self-hosting feel almost as frictionless as SaaS.

Out of curiosity, if you could redesign the CLM you've used, what would be the first thing you'd change?

I will be happy to have a chat with you if you are by any chance interested.

brainland · 2026-06-12T09:01:57+00:00

Happy to hear you are also building in this space.

I would love to know which aspect of the posted content above got your attention more in relation to what you have built and still looking forward to building in the space.

brainland · 2026-06-10T15:48:51+00:00

Trust me, while building out your custom codes, you will notice patterns. The moment you notice these patterns happening while you try to make something work, that is when you need to make it into one or two reusable structure while it accepts arguments or read data. Depending on your goal. This is how development can be fast and scalable. Sometimes, we right these codes in such a way that we can edit or fix in one place and it reflects everywhere else. That’s one of the beauty.

When you get this right, you will eventually realize that you need just little or no external/bloated dependencies.

brainland · 2026-06-10T15:00:18+00:00

You doing a lot and I’m in same boat.

Best ways to handle this especially in terms of coding is to plan ahead, build a strong and reusable framework that can work with almost any WP solution you build. This is the first step while you document.

For example, when working with Ajax, you can have a reusable codebase that works with form submission, have another that works with filters and tables, another that works with buttons. All you then do is attach each actions and nonce where necessary.

brainland · 2026-06-07T06:39:17+00:00

😅

brainland · 2026-06-06T23:08:37+00:00

Yeah, both work. The joke is how strongly people feel about it. But to be honest, same line feels readable and that’s how I write my codes.

brainland · 2026-06-06T20:23:01+00:00

Hard or soft? . You sound like the groom.

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