Contract Intelligence
An analyst that reads every agreement
Leases · supply agreements · franchise contracts · service level agreements — Contract Intelligence reads them the way a meticulous associate would, only faster, across every site and every jurisdiction, without losing track of what was agreed on page 47
Built by people who reviewed these agreements by hand, for years
Private beta · early Q3 2026
Problem & Context
Three hundred agreements, twelve jurisdictions, and no one can say what was actually signed
The portfolio lives in inboxes
Signed agreements sit in shared drives, email threads and a spreadsheet maintained by one person. There is no single answer to what a given site is contractually obliged to pay, or when. The document of record and the tracker have quietly diverged.
International complexity
The same portfolio spans jurisdictions and languages. Legal, finance and operations read the same clause differently. A rent review mechanism written under one governing law behaves nothing like its counterpart two markets away.
No clause standardization
The same commercial meaning is expressed in five different ways across five agreements. No consistent set of accepted positions. Every negotiation re-litigates ground that was already settled — because nobody can show what was settled.
Obligations that arrive unannounced
Break options, renewal windows, indexation dates and rent review triggers are buried in the text. They surface when they expire, not when they could still be used. Contract terms are never systematically linked to what they cost.
Result
- Charges paid above the agreed standard, unnoticed for years
- Break options and renewal windows missed by the calendar
- The same concession negotiated away twice in two markets
- Expansion decisions made without knowing the real cost of occupancy
The platform
A unified environment for contract control, standardization, and decision-making
Contract Intelligence turns a portfolio of signed agreements from fragmented files into a structured, standardized and manageable system — across every site, every counterparty and every jurisdiction.
01 · Core working environment
Word-based workflow.
Import draft agreements directly from Word and scanned PDFs. Work inside a structured environment — edit, compare versions, run side-by-side reviews. Export back to Word with full track changes and clean redlines. No disruption to existing legal workflows, full visibility and control.
02 · Clause standardization
Every clause compared, every divergence flagged.
Structures agreements into comparable components. Aligns every clause to your internally accepted position — the house playbook, encoded. Surfaces deviations in plain language and proposes compliant redlines, so the same commercial meaning is read the same way every time.
03 · Multilingual environment
One agreement, every language.
Processes documents in English, French, Arabic, Russian, Turkish and more. On-the-fly translation of clauses for unified reading across legal, finance and operations teams. Removes the language barrier in cross-border portfolios — the Arabic lease and the English one are compared on the same terms.
04 · Centralized contract database
Every new agreement read against everything you've ever signed.
Historical agreements, standard templates and accepted clauses sit in one place. Internal negotiation positions, concessions already granted and house rules are encoded. The corpus grows with every new deal — and every new deal is analysed against accumulated corporate knowledge.
Trained on the corpus
It knows the standard moves
Thousands of commercial agreements — retail and F&B leases, franchise and concession contracts, supply and service agreements. Contract Intelligence recognises the conventions of each instrument, and surfaces, in plain language, what diverges from them.
Clauses it recognises
Negotiation & decision support
From contract text to informed business decisions
Contract Intelligence connects agreements with real business impact — supporting both the negotiation in front of you and the larger portfolio decisions behind it.
Negotiation support
Structured review of every draft. Identification of deviations from accepted terms and the internal house standard. Visibility of alternative clause formulations grounded in past agreements — including what you already conceded elsewhere, and what you never had to.
Financial impact of contract terms
Translates rent escalation formulas, turnover thresholds, service charge caps and indexation mechanics into expected cost over the life of the agreement. Surfaces the impact on occupancy cost during the negotiation, not at the first invoice.
Integration with historical data
Benchmarks every new term against previously signed agreements across the portfolio. Aligns recommendations with internal financial and operational indicators. Decisions sit on top of accumulated corporate knowledge, not separate from it.
What this changes
- Negotiations become structured and data-supported
- Decisions weigh legal and financial perspectives together
- Reduced risk of accepting terms you have already rejected elsewhere
- Site and expansion decisions made on real cost of occupancy
Obligations, automation & value
Every obligation extracted, dated, and reconciled against what you pay
Contract Intelligence extends beyond review, turning contract text into structured obligations that connect to the finance stack — deadlines, escalations, charges and the invoices that follow them.
Obligation & date tracking
Extracts every dated obligation buried in the text — break options, renewal windows, rent review triggers, indexation dates, notice periods. Surfaces them before they expire, with the clause and page they came from.
Charge & invoice reconciliation
Processes landlord statements, service charge reconciliations and supplier invoices, including scanned documents. Extracts amounts, periods and references, then checks them against what the agreement actually permits — and flags anything that doesn't tie out.
Automation on real documents
Works on the actual artefacts your team handles — signed leases, amendments and side agreements, franchise contracts, landlord statements, supplier invoices. No re-keying into intermediate systems. The original document stays the source of truth, and every answer cites it.
Request access
Contract Intelligence is in private beta with a small group of multi-site operators. For an introduction, write to the founders.
hello@hecteur.com