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How we cut contract drafting from 45 minutes to 90 seconds

How a law firm automated 10,000+ standard contracts a month with template logic, CRM data and PDF/Word output, and what any legal team can learn from it.

5 min read

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45 min → 90 s

drafting time per contract, at 10,000+ documents a month

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Spreadsheets

Signs your business has outgrown spreadsheets

Seven signs your business has outgrown spreadsheets, how to check each one in your own team this week, and what to do next before errors and rework grow.

7 min read

Process automation

Automating invoice reconciliation, build vs buy

How invoice reconciliation automation works (2-way and 3-way matching, tolerances, exception triage, audit logs) and how to decide between buying and building.

6 min read

Process automation

How we run discovery for automation projects

Our discovery process for automation projects: process mapping, shadowing, volume and exception inventory, data sources, success metrics and a written scope.

7 min read

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