Spellbook, the leading AI infrastructure for contracts used by 4,500+ legal teams across 80+ countries, launched Autonomous Contract Management (ACM), introducing the first AI system that powers contracts end to end. Spellbook ACM handles every step of the contract lifecycle, from the moment a deal hits your inbox to the day it renews years later. Nothing gets handed off between systems or slips after signature, and the intelligence stays with you for the life of the contract.

The world is in one of the largest investment cycles in decades. Trillions are flowing into energy, AI, manufacturing, and the modernization of critical global systems. All of it runs through contracts. But while business has sped up, contracts haven't. Most legal teams still handle them the way they did twenty years ago: page by page, in Word, in email, in folders nobody can search. And, as proven in the recent Spellbook Labs report analyzing SEC-filed contracts, that also means contract issue rates haven’t improved in twenty years. Contract Lifecycle Management (CLMs) tools attempted to reduce the friction, but storing and routing alone did not remove the bottleneck.

"CLMs were the first attempt at solving a real problem, but they were built before AI could do the actual work," said Scott Stevenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Spellbook. "Most teams ended up with an expensive filing cabinet. Meanwhile, lawyers still spend their days on triage, first-pass review, and chasing signatures. None of that needs a lawyer. We built Spellbook from the AI layer up so the work happens in the background, and lawyers wake up to a queue that's already been handled."

Spellbook ACM operates across three core workflows:

1. Intake: Spellbook pulls in new contracts autonomously from email, Slack, Salesforce, and wherever else deals start. It triages, reviews and redlines each one against your standards before a lawyer ever opens it, then routes it to the right pipeline and owner. Every contract arrives with a full diagnostic of where it breaks from your standards, where the risk sits, and what to do next. Routine agreements that pass cleanly are ready to approve, and everything else is flagged for a closer look.
2. Review: Every active deal lives in one place, so lawyers always know what's waiting and what needs them first. Each negotiation then runs in its own workspace, where every new turn from the other side is reviewed automatically as it comes in. Versions stay organized and easy to compare, and the full history of the deal is one view away.
3. Insight: After signature, every agreement is stored automatically. Teams can search the full history and get answers with citations back to the source. From there, Spellbook keeps working in the background, flagging renewals before they slip and catching new risks as regulations, policies, and playbooks change.