What The Report Covers:

Timelines keep shrinking while the work becomes more complex. Teams can't solve one without addressing the other.

Negotiation stalls more deals than any other stage, yet AI investment flows to drafting and review where control is easier.

The biggest risk isn't new contracts — it's not knowing what obligations and liabilities already exist in agreements sitting in repositories.

AI regulation and data privacy laws are tightening faster than teams can update policies, forcing contract functions to adapt on the fly.

Expectations for AI are high across the board, but actual deployment remains concentrated in lower-risk, easier-to-automate stages of the lifecycle.

Third-party risk is rising as organizations rely more heavily on vendors for critical services, making contract oversight more consequential.