Beyond Contract Storage: The Rise of the Intelligent Repository
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Beyond Contract Storage: The Rise of the Intelligent Repository
How legal teams are moving from storing contracts to asking, analyzing, and acting on them.
Most contract repositories were built to solve a foundational problem: getting agreements into one place and making them easier to find.
But centralizing contracts is no longer the end state.
Today, legal teams need to understand what is happening across the portfolio, identify the agreements that need attention, connect related paper, turn contract language into usable data, and act on that knowledge without manually reviewing documents one by one.
In this webinar, we'll explore the rise of the intelligent contract repository and introduce a practical framework for understanding where your organization is today and what comes next.
What we'll cover
The Contract Intelligence Maturity Model
We'll look at the five stages legal teams move through as their repository evolves:
Storage → Search → Structured Data → Portfolio Intelligence → Operational Contract Intelligence
See how the questions a repository can answer change at each stage, from "Where is the contract?" to "What is happening across our agreements, and what should we do about it?"
20 Questions Legal Should Be Asking Its Contracts
Which agreements auto-renew in the next 90 days? Where do we have uncapped liability? Which amendments changed the rights in an underlying MSA?
We'll use real-world questions to illustrate the difference between simply storing contracts and being able to understand the portfolio as a whole.
What makes a repository intelligent
See how modern legal teams can:
- ask questions across the contract portfolio in plain language
- turn answers into sortable, structured data
- understand relationships between MSAs, SOWs, amendments, and renewals
- create and monitor dynamic populations of contracts
- reuse the knowledge already contained in existing agreements
Throughout the session, we'll show these concepts in practice using live examples from the SimpleDocs Repository.
Who should attend
This session is designed for in-house legal teams, legal operations professionals, contract managers, and legal leaders thinking about how AI changes the role of the contract repository.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
11:00a ET | 8:00a PT | 4:00p BST
45 minutes
About the Host
Preston Clark is the CEO and co-founder of SimpleDocs, an AI-powered contract automation platform that helps legal and business teams draft, review, and manage contracts more efficiently. He is also the co-founder of Law Insider, the world’s largest public contract and clause database, serving thousands of legal and business professionals worldwide.
With more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of legal operations, software, and AI, Preston has built and scaled products focused on modernizing how contracts are created, negotiated, and managed. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he held leadership roles at several venture-backed startups and served as Assistant General Counsel at the University of Miami.