Clause-level provenance
Clause-level provenance is the recorded origin of every clause in an executed agreement: which library it came from, which version, who approved its inclusion, what context drove its selection, and what risk threshold applied. Provenance at the clause level (rather than document level) is the audit substrate that makes AI-assisted contract authoring defensible to internal audit, external auditors, and regulators.
Why this matters
For the teams that work with this concept daily
Legal Operations / GC. When auditors or regulators ask why a specific clause appears in a specific agreement, document-level audit trails don't answer the question. Clause-level provenance does — every clause is traceable to its source authority and selection context.
How IntelAgree handles it
Clause-level provenance on the IntelAgree platform
IntelAgree records clause-level provenance for every Saige Assist proposal and every human approval. The provenance chain — library, version, approver, context, threshold — is queryable end-to-end and exportable for audit response.
Common questions
Questions buyers ask about clause-level provenance
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Why does clause-level matter vs document-level?
Document-level audit answers 'who approved this contract.' Clause-level answers 'why this specific clause appears, on what authority, with what risk profile.' The latter is what regulators and rigorous internal audit increasingly require.
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