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savings on contracting
value identified (Y1) — pricing anomalies, clause standardization, optimization
unlimited contracting — end-to-end review & execution included,
Contract data lived siloed in PDFs, emails, and SharePoint—useful only if someone re-reviewed it or paid a firm to do it again. Institutional memory was tribal; prior positions and pricing terms were hard to find; and the legacy law hourly model kept creeping up with little change in delivery. Legal was forced to choose between speed and comprehensiveness while the business waited. The unspoken assumption across the market: “serious” work requires a big firm; if you trust AI, you’ll sacrifice quality. Duracell rejected that trade-off.
Duracell combined two moves. First, they embedded an AI-Augmented Human to run day-to-day contracting redlines, negotiation support, progression to signature, and escalation paths—on a predictable, fixed-fee basis. Second, they turned static contracting history into a custom contract insights solution, extracting pricing, rebate, and margin-relevant clauses across legacy documents and linking them to Sales/Finance data. Now Legal could answer margin and posture questions before negotiations, highlight renegotiation targets, and keep the cycle moving—without defaulting to outside counsel. Adoption accelerated because the program was funded by re-allocating outside-counsel dollars (not a new tech line) and because the team could retrieve their own data in minutes, not weeks.
Legal’s value is measured in outcomes at business speed. With the AI-Augmented Contracting Solution handling contract execution and the custom contract insights solution converting history into posture, Duracell operates as a strategic signal generator: consistent redlines, clause benchmarks, and decision-ready insights on pricing, rebates, and risk that Sales and Finance can act on immediately. Judgment stays human where it matters; repetitive tasks are automated; and every matter feeds playbooks and decision memory, so each new agreement makes the next faster and smarter. The result: fewer trade-offs, tighter alignment with the business, and visible commercial impact—managed contracting that pays for itself because it powers insights across the portfolio.
Duracell is scaling the model across business units without adding headcount. The secondee remains the front-line engine for contracting while outputs feed a durable, searchable Company Brain. The custom contract insights solution expands into broader commercial levers (rebates, escalators, leakage), giving the enterprise forward-looking posture—not just historical review. Performance stays transparent through SLAs/KPIs, and the budget story shifts from variable hourly spend to predictable fixed fees. Starting with contracts created a low-risk on-ramp; now the capability compounds.
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