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.
One real services agreement, from upload to attorney sign-off to a calendared, last-day-to-act deadline.
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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 executed PDFs one at a time or in bulk. Scanned contracts are read too, and each one is filed under its client and matter.
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, the US federal holiday calendar, and a notice-window calculation that surfaces the last day to act, not just the expiry date.
Obligations are assigned to owners, sent with a calendar file to add to Outlook or Google 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.
Every contract is filed under the client and matter it belongs to, with an owner for each matter, so a firm can watch dozens of clients' contracts in one place. Each firm's data is kept separate at the database level, not just hidden in the interface. Corporate contract tools assume one company managing its own agreements; MatterCent is built around the way a firm actually works.
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. 50+ contract date phrasings mapped to their exact computation, unit-tested, with business days that skip US federal holidays. 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.
Some clients' outside counsel guidelines restrict AI. Switch AI off for a whole client, a matter or a single contract: those contracts are still stored and tracked, never sent to the AI, and their obligations are added by hand with the same reminders and audit trail.
Every extraction, verification, edit, notification, waiver and escalation is logged with actor, timestamp and document version. Exportable by a managing partner at any time. 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 |
| Organised by client and matter | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Notice drafts from the contract's own terms — attorney sends | ✗ | Templates only | ✗ | ✓ Word draft |
| 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, and every plan includes every feature. Plans differ only in how many active contracts you monitor and how many new contracts AI reads each month. Uploading is never limited, and a one-off allowance covers the backlog you bring when you start. 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.