Adoption of contract lifecycle management isn’t failing because people don’t care. It’s failing because the tools haven’t kept up with how legal, procurement, and operations teams work today.
Teams are juggling growing contract volumes, tighter timelines, and stricter compliance requirements—often with limited visibility or support. A single clause deviation or missed obligation can lead to hours of rework, or worse, compliance risk.
That sets the stage for the Aavenir Contractflow Spring 2025 Release. This isn’t just a feature drop—it’s a practical response to what legal and procurement leaders need right now: less manual effort, clearer oversight, and faster review cycles, with the confidence that nothing is slipping through.
Let’s walk through the updates—why they matter and how they map directly to real operational pain points.
Redefining the role of AI in contract management: What’s new with Avy
AI can’t replace legal or procurement expertise—but it can reduce the overhead that slows experts down. In this release, Avy, Aavenir’s generative AI assistant, steps into a more active and practical role across the contract lifecycle. Not as a chatbot on the side, but as an integrated tool that makes core contract tasks faster, clearer, and more predictable.
1. AI-Generated contract summaries
When a new contract is uploaded, Avy automatically generates a concise, AI-driven summary that’s saved as the contract’s description. No extra steps. No manual input. Just immediate clarity.
Need a more detailed version? With a single click, Avy creates a long-form, templatized summary that outlines:
- Contracting relationship
- Key obligations
- Financial terms
- Renewal triggers and risks
This isn't just a feature—it's a time-saver that spares contract managers hours of reading and summarizing, giving every team a clear, consistent starting point.
2. Spot clause compare—without full extraction or prompt engineering
Clause comparisons are often delayed because they require full identification and extraction of clauses by legal and other teams and then a manual clause-by-clause comparison against the library. The Spring 2025 Release introduces Spot Clause Compare—a one-click option to compare an individual clause against pre-approved legal language.
With a couple of clicks, users can:
- Choose a clause in the AI assistant
- Compare it instantly to the clause library
- Get flagged deviations and suggested changes without writing elaborate prompts
For organizations working with third-party paper or high volumes of redlines, this makes legal review of key clauses significantly more efficient and repeatable.
3. Spot obligation identification—quick answers, no full scan needed
Understanding who owes what in a contract is critical—not just for compliance, but for protecting business value. Yet, obligations are often scattered across lengthy documents and easy to overlook. For enterprises, this creates risk—missed SLAs, untracked penalties, or unmet deliverables.
With the Aavenir Contractflow Spring 2025 Release, Avy now enables obligation spot-checks—helping users quickly identify key responsibilities without running a full extraction or involving legal teams. In just one click, Avy can pinpoint:
- Obligations assigned to the enterprise
- Obligations assigned to the counterparty (vendor or customer)
- Shared/mutual obligations
Even when these obligations are buried in different sections, Avy brings them to the surface—giving business users faster, clearer insight into what they’re signing up for, and what they’re owed in return.
4. Autonomous obligation verification—taking manual checks off the table
One of the most time-consuming aspects of post-signature contract management is verifying proof of obligation fulfillment—like insurance coverage documents, compliance certifications, and financial statements.
Now, with a single click upload of a fulfillment document, Avy can:
- Examine contract obligations and determine fulfilment document checklist criteria
- Check if the obligation criteria are met in the fulfilment document
- Auto-execute closure and rejection workflows based on the AI verification
Hundreds of hours are typically spent manually verifying these submissions. Autonomous verification turns that burden into a breakthrough—freeing teams and accelerating compliance oversight.
5. Preloaded guided prompts— Let the system think ahead
Users don’t always know the right questions to ask—or how to phrase prompts that will get the most accurate answers from an AI assistant. That’s why the latest Avy release introduces preloaded guided prompts directly into the system menu.
Instead of starting from scratch, teams can now pre-configure a set of commonly needed contract queries tailored to their organization’s needs.
Examples include:
- “Does this contract include any data-sharing provisions?”
- “What’s the governing law clause?”
- “Are there any renewal terms I should be aware of?”
Implementations can tailor these prompts based on their organizations' recurring needs—making AI usage consistent, scalable, and on-brand for the organization.
Supporting features that remove everyday friction
While AI takes center stage, the Spring 2025 Release also introduces system-level updates designed to simplify the tasks that slow teams down—like managing attachments, handling document versions, and keeping review cycles on track.
Document management that reflects reality
Contracts rarely live in isolation. Supporting documents—SOPs, certificates, and annexures—are part of every deal. Now users can:
- Upload and associate multiple documents to the contract record at once
- Mark document types like Policy, Guideline, Certificate
- Replace older versions by dragging and dropping new files
- Add notes for context without cluttering the main record
This structure makes audits easier, reviews faster, and collaboration smoother—especially in industries with compliance-heavy documentation.
Set signing sequence with DocuSign
Contract packages often require multiple sign-offs across departments. Now, users can define signing orders using a drag-and-drop interface before sending documents through DocuSign.
By default, contract-type documents appear first, but users have full control over the sequence—ensuring clarity and consistency in the final signed output.
Smarter review and navigation features
These features focus on removing day-to-day blockers that frustrate users and slow productivity:
Smart Summary field
A new Smart Summary field now appears directly on the contract record—providing users with an instant overview without needing to open the full document. It can be refreshed any time the contract is updated, saving contract managers hours typically spent scanning lengthy agreements for key details.
Enhanced LiveView
The upgraded LiveView feature enables users to carry out more of the contract review process directly within the document viewer—reducing the need to switch between tools or interfaces. Key enhancements include:
- In-platform document viewing: Supporting documents can now be opened and reviewed directly in LiveView without needing to download them. This improves speed and minimizes workflow disruption.
- Improved clause highlighting: Clauses are now detected and highlighted with greater precision, making it easier for reviewers to locate, assess, and verify key legal language within long documents.
- Mark-and-map terms to metadata: Users can select text within the document and map it directly to metadata fields in the contract record (e.g., term dates, governing law), helping ensure accurate and consistent data capture.
- Deviation analysis without check-in: Clause deviation checks can now be performed from within LiveView—even if the document hasn't been formally checked in—allowing for quicker risk assessments during drafting or review.
This means users can complete more of the review process in fewer steps—reducing context-switching and task duplication.
Process intelligence and activity tracking
The release also includes several auditability and workflow improvements for contract owners and system administrators:
- Idle Days Tracking: A new field tracks how long a contract has been stuck in the same status—making it easier to flag stalled agreements
- Termination Reversal: Terminations can be canceled in case of business reversals or errors
- Clause Deviation Scoring: Now calculated instantly when library clauses are applied from the Word Add-in
- Enhanced Audit Logs: Tracks metadata updates, O365 actions like check-ins, and clause modifications
These features ensure stronger accountability, better reporting, and easier process reviews when needed.
Built for enterprise-grade environments
- Compatible with ServiceNow Washington DC, Xanadu, and Yokohama versions
- Requires Aavenir Foundation Application v1.14
- Optimized for modern browsers (Chrome, Edge)
- Designed for performance across contract lists, review pages, uploads, and amendments
Whether you're managing 500 contracts or 50,000, the Spring 2025 Release is built to support scaling with confidence.
A real step forward for teams who work with contracts—every day
The Aavenir Contractflow Spring 2025 Release isn’t about abstract transformation. It’s about reducing the noise that surrounds contracts and giving legal, procurement, and compliance teams more control, more clarity, and more speed—without compromising accuracy or oversight.
What’s new is not just that AI is smarter. It’s that it’s applied where it matters:
- Drafting less, reviewing faster
- Verifying tasks without chasing email trails
- Giving every team—from legal to operations—the same view of risk, terms, and status
If your organization is pushing to improve contract turnarounds, reduce legal workload, or tighten post-signature tracking, this release was designed with those outcomes in mind.
See it in action
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