Legal has the MSA, security a questionnaire, procurement the request, finance a W-9 — and no two agree where the packet stands.
Contracts & Vendor Operations for B2B SaaS
A signed contract is not an onboarded vendor.
For legal operations, deal desk, procurement, vendor operations, security, and finance teams.
Give legal, security, procurement, and finance one packet to work from — the same facts, the same gaps, the same open questions — instead of four half-answers in four systems.
Works with
MSAs and contracts · order forms · SOWs · DPAs and privacy terms · security evidence and questionnaires
Where the time goes
The hard part is finding the complete picture.
Renewal notice, termination rights, liability caps, privacy terms, insurance dates, and tax identity get copied into four systems and lose the document they came from.
A signed order form reaches operations while the security answer and the insurance certificate are still outstanding.
What reviewers see
One prepared review—not another packet to decode.
Parties, term, renewal notice, liability cap, privacy roles, insurance dates, and tax identity — one record, four review lanes.
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Vendor record
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Vendor
Legal
Renewal notice — 60 days (MSA p.12) vs 30 days (Order Form p.1)
Security
Security questionnaire — not received
Procurement
W-9 — on file
Finance
Certificate of insurance — on file
Prepared for four reviewers. None of them has signed off.
In the example packet: the MSA requires sixty days of renewal notice and the order form says thirty, an amendment has replaced the liability cap, and the security questionnaire never arrived.
What Alembic handles
Move preparation out of the review queue.
Alembic prepares the shared facts once — parties, term, renewal, liability, privacy roles, insurance, tax identity — instead of four teams reading the same PDF.
Each lane sees what it owns and what it is waiting on, with conflicting clauses side by side and the source beside them.
Owners resolve questions or leave them open on the record, and only the approved scope moves out over the REST API, a signed webhook, Google Sheets, or HTTPS.
The accuracy question
We show you where we are unsure.
What this means for your team
Contract extraction earns trust by admitting its limits. Where a term traces back to a clause, that clause opens beside it. Where it does not, the field says so instead of guessing. When the MSA says sixty days and the order form says thirty, Alembic shows you both and names the conflict — it does not quietly pick one. Missing evidence stays missing on the record until an owner decides.
- The extracted term and its clause, one click apart, wherever a reliable match exists.
- Conflicting documents are shown side by side, never reconciled behind your back.
- No score to interpret. A missing questionnaire is a gap with an owner, not a failed vendor.
Before you build a business case
Measure your own preparation work first
How to calculate your own baseline
Packets per month, minutes actually spent preparing each one, loaded hourly cost of the people doing it. That is your current cost of preparation, and it is usually larger than anyone expects.
Set it against the review effort you expect to keep, and put software and setup cost in the same view. Illustrative, not guaranteed: this is a capacity scenario, not a promised savings rate.
Where the line sits
What stays human
- Alembic does not interpret contracts, accept residual risk, approve vendors, or authenticate banking instructions.
- Source evidence can be unavailable or ambiguous; missing and conflicting records stay visible rather than resolved for you.
- Named CLM, procurement, and GRC systems are not native integrations. REST API, signed webhooks, Google Sheets, and HTTPS destinations are the supported primitives.
Contracts & Vendor Operations for B2B SaaS workflow questions
Does Alembic approve a vendor or a contract?
No. It prepares the facts, the evidence, the checks, and the open questions. Interpretation and approval stay with your legal, security, procurement, and finance owners.
Can one packet serve four review teams?
Yes. The shared facts are prepared once, each lane sees the requirements it owns, and unresolved questions keep their owner in plain sight.
Can Alembic feed our stack?
REST API, signed webhooks, Google Sheets, and generic HTTPS destinations on eligible plans. A named CLM or GRC system needs an adapter you configure — we do not imply native integrations we have not built.
Does a missing questionnaire fail the vendor?
No. It means a required input has not arrived. Your security or procurement owner decides whether to request it, proceed, or escalate.
We are building document review into our own product. Is that this page?
Not quite. Alembic exposes a REST API, signed webhooks, and API intake on eligible plans, and spaces can be designed against your own schema. Talk to our team and describe what you are building — we will tell you honestly whether the API surface covers it today.
Show us what is slowing your team down.
We’ll help you start with the documents, checks, and review points your team already uses.