For small and mid-sized law firms
MatterCent reads your executed contracts, extracts every obligation and renewal window with clause-level citations, and watches them continuously — so your firm never relies on a spreadsheet or a paralegal's memory again.
A signed contract creates obligations that last years. Most firms track them on spreadsheets, sticky notes, and paralegal memory. That works until it doesn't.
Manual entry per contract. No auto-renewal detection. Breaks the moment the responsible person leaves or goes on vacation.
A human has to calculate the date, set the reminder, and know what to do when it fires. No ownership. No escalation. No evidence.
Not scalable. Not auditable. Not defensible in a malpractice claim. When the paralegal is out, the obligations don't pause.
A missed renewal notice or blown cure period is not just lost revenue — it is a professional liability event with a named insured. Docketing failures are one of the most documented causes of malpractice claims in the ABA's loss data.
A pipeline with a human gate in the middle and a scheduler on the end. The AI extracts. The attorney verifies. The system watches.
Upload directly, connect via DocuSign webhook, or link to your existing document management system. MatterCent accepts executed PDFs from anywhere.
A two-pass extraction pipeline reads every clause and identifies obligations, deadlines, renewal windows and compliance duties — each with a verbatim citation to the exact clause it came from. No citation, no extraction.
Every extracted obligation sits in a review queue until a licensed attorney accepts, edits or rejects it. This is enforced at the database level — not a checkbox. No obligation becomes active without recorded attorney sign-off.
"Within 30 days of the Effective Date" becomes a real calendar date. The date engine is pure code — no AI involvement — with business-day counting, jurisdiction-aware holiday calendars, and a notice-window calculation that surfaces the last day to act, not just the expiry date.
Obligations are assigned to owners, pushed to calendar, and reminded on a configurable schedule. Missed responses escalate automatically. Every action is logged to an immutable audit trail built for malpractice defence, not just compliance.
When a renewal decision is needed, MatterCent drafts the non-renewal letter, termination notice or confirmation — grounded in the contract's own notice provisions. A human reviews and sends. The system never transmits anything to a counterparty without attorney approval.
Every other contract management tool assumes one customer managing its own contracts. MatterCent is built for a firm managing dozens of clients' contracts simultaneously — with the isolation, ethics and accountability that requires.
Per-client data isolation, ethical walls between matters, conflicts checking at filing time, and engagement scope tracking. No existing product has this. It requires a fundamentally different architecture — one that cannot be added to corporate CLM software without rebuilding it from scratch.
The database makes an unverified active obligation physically impossible. Not a UI checkbox — a hard constraint. Every obligation carries the name of the attorney who verified it and the document version they reviewed. That audit trail is your malpractice defence.
Date arithmetic is code, not AI. 40+ contract date phrasings mapped to their exact computation, unit-tested, with jurisdiction-aware holiday calendars. Every computed date shows its derivation — "47 days = Effective Date 1 Aug 2026 + 45 calendar days" — so attorneys can verify the arithmetic before acting.
MatterCent alerts on the last day to give notice, not the expiry date. That distinction is the difference between catching an auto-renewal and missing it. Most firms calendar the wrong date.
When an amendment changes the term, MatterCent detects the conflict, proposes which obligations are superseded, and flags it for attorney confirmation. The original obligation is retained as superseded — never silently deleted. Registers don't rot quietly.
Every extraction, verification, edit, notification, waiver and escalation is logged with actor, timestamp and document version. Exportable. Readable by a claims adjuster. Built to be produced in discovery if it ever comes to that.
Most contract tools were designed for a company managing its own vendor agreements — not for a law firm managing dozens of clients' contracts simultaneously. The gap is structural.
| Capability | Contract repository tools | Enterprise CLM | Spreadsheets & calendar | MatterCent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post-signature obligation register | ✗ | Partial | ✗ | ✓ |
| Deterministic date computation | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Auto-renewal detection & last-day-to-act | Date reminders only | Alert on expiry date | ✗ | ✓ Computed |
| Attorney-verified obligation gate | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Schema-level |
| Multi-client matter model with ethical walls | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Notice drafting — human approves before sending | ✗ | Templates only | ✗ | ✓ Agentic |
| Malpractice-grade audit trail | Basic logging | Enterprise tiers only | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built for law firms — not corporate legal | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Pricing accessible to SMB firms | Mid-market only | $50K+/yr | Free | From $399/mo |
Per-firm subscription, billed annually. No per-seat fees — every attorney and paralegal at your firm gets access. Designed to be resold to clients as a fixed-fee monitoring service.
All plans billed annually. Month-to-month available at 20% premium. Pilot pricing available for design partners — contact us.
We're working with a small number of design-partner firms to shape the product. If your firm manages contracts on behalf of clients and you've ever missed — or nearly missed — a renewal or obligation deadline, we'd like to talk.
MatterCent is currently in design-partner development. Early firms receive priority onboarding, significant influence over the roadmap, and pilot pricing.