Picture the deal everyone celebrates. Sales has run the demo. Procurement has nodded. The customer says yes. Then the contract goes out, and the momentum drains away. Legal tweaks a clause.
The document bounces between five inboxes. A signatory is on holiday. Two weeks later, the deal that closed in the room still is not signed. Nobody logged the delay as a cost. It was one anyway.
This is the hidden tax on growth. It rarely lands on a dashboard. It hides in the gap between a verbal yes and a countersigned agreement. Multiply that gap across every deal, renewal, and supplier agreement, and it adds up to real money and real time.
Contract lifecycle management, or CLM, is the category built to close the gap. To see why it matters, start with the size of the leak.
The leak nobody books
