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.
What arrives
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.
The job, start to finish
Vendor onboarding, one sentence to done.
You say the job once. DISTLR runs every case on its own card and brings you the one call that's yours.
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1Say it
We're signing Northlight Analytics. Collect what security, legal and finance need, and tell me when it's ready to sign.
Setting up Vendor onboarding for Northlight Analytics. I'll gather what each team needs and tell you when it's ready to sign.
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2The board
Vendor onboarding
Collecting2
Northlight AnalyticsA DPA question (needs you)Quill DataW-9 next (DISTLR is working)Ready to sign1
Ferro LabsReady to sign (done)Set up1
Tandem HRSet up (done) -
3The chase
Northlight Analytics
Jo Alvarez Vendor contact
What DISTLR did
- Asked Northlight for their security questionnaireMon
- Asked Jo Alvarez for a W-9 and insurance certificateMon
- Filed the signed DPAWed
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4Your call
Northlight's DPA lists a subprocessor your policy doesn't. Accept it, or send it to legal?- 1Accept it
- 2Send it to legal
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5Paper out
Vendor setup form
- Vendor
- Northlight Analyticsfrom the MSA
- Tax ID
- •• •••4417from their W-9
- Insurance to
- June 30, 2027from their certificate
Finance · yours to sign
What DISTLR handles
The busywork, off your desk.
DISTLR 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 still needs, 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 leaves, to your Google Sheet, your own system or a CSV.
The accuracy question
Unsure stays marked unsure.
What this means for your team
Reading contracts 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, DISTLR shows you both and names the conflict — they do not quietly pick one. Missing evidence stays missing on the record until an owner decides.
- The term and the clause it came from, 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.
Where the line sits
What stays human
- DISTLR 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.
- Results go to your Google Sheet, your own system or a CSV. Your CLM, procurement and GRC systems stay your systems of record.
Contracts & Vendor Operations for B2B SaaS: questions
Does DISTLR approve a vendor or a contract?
No. DISTLR 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 this feed our stack?
Yes: to your Google Sheet, to your own system, through the API and webhooks, or as a CSV.
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 this into our own product. Is that this page?
Not quite. Talk to us and describe what you are building — we will tell you honestly what the API covers today.
Give DISTLR their first job.
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