Sub-function
Contract Lifecycle
Owns contract work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 20 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 5 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
74 / 100
In-policy paper is drafted, redlined and executed without a lawyer touching it. Anything off the fallback ladder routes to named counsel, because the exposure is contractual and permanent.
Agents
10
Lines
3
Units / wk
11,220
Timetable vs actual
7.0h → 7.4h
Cost / unit
$11
was $43
Run-rate saving
$18.7M
annualized at this volume
The 10 agents running this sub-function
Grouped by what they are for, not by where they sit. The agent org is process-shaped.
Contract Lifecycle Orchestrator
Owns the contract lifecycle lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Intake & Triage Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of contract lifecycle inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Redline Comparison Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of contract lifecycle inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Obligation Extraction Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of contract lifecycle inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Clause Library Agent
Executes the contract lifecycle step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
First-Draft Agent
Executes the contract lifecycle step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Signature & Execution Agent
Executes the contract lifecycle step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Commercial Contracts when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Fallback Position Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in contract lifecycle. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Contract Policy Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in contract lifecycle. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Contract Lifecycle Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for contract lifecycle. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A3 · escalates to Escalates when a ratified position is still running against a break condition it flagged.
Estate rating breakdown
Seven control dimensions. Judgment readiness runs against autonomy on purpose.
People
What the humans stopped doing, and what they do now.
Roles held flat; released hours absorbed volume growth rather than headcount reduction.
Lines running in this sub-function
Each line is a workflow. Click a line to walk it station by station.
Strategy positions this sub-function holds
An agent that only executes is a robot. These are the calls it made, the argument against each one, and what would prove it wrong.
Contract Lifecycle Operating Position
Supersededv4Where should the autonomy ceiling for contract lifecycle sit over the next four quarters, and what evidence would justify moving it?
Hold the ceiling at A3 for contract lifecycle. In-policy paper is drafted, redlined and executed without a lawyer touching it. Anything off the fallback ladder routes to named counsel, because the exposure is contractual and permanent. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
62%
The challenge — Contract Lifecycle Challenger Agent
Contract Lifecycle Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 2 quarters of data from a period with no volume shock. The confidence band overlaps the alternative, and the position does not say what it would take to be wrong. Recorded as a dissent, not a block.
Break conditions
- ·Override rate rises above 14 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per contract stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No external comparator on a like-for-like unit definition
- ·Exception cases under $18k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $361k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $524k to build controls | Override rate is 5 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $135k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
Policy register
The rules the agents above are bound by. Version, owner, approver, and the agents each rule constrains.
| Ref | Rule | Scope | Owner agent | Approved by | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LG1-POL-200 | Contract Lifecycle Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the contract sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. Outside it, the unit holds at a gate with a named approver and a running clock. binds 6 agents · EU · UK · US | envelope | Fallback Position Agent | Director, Commercial Contracts | v3.8 | under review |
| LG1-POL-201 | Contract Lifecycle Evidence Standard Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. An action with no evidence record is treated as a control failure, not a fast decision. binds 6 agents · US · Canada | evidence | Fallback Position Agent | Director, Commercial Contracts | v3.2 | Active |