合同智能指数报告：将合同智能转化为更大的业务增长

Legal’s Opportunity& Obligation to ConvertContract Intelligence IntoGreater Business Growth 1Table of Contents The Legal Disconnect:Contract OwnershipGaps And Enterprise Risk Introduction The Legal Disconnect:Contract Ownership GapsAnd Enterprise Risk The Problem: Systemic Misalignment9The Downstream Effect of Disconnected Contracts10Bypassing Legal Leads to Major Exposure11The Path Forward12Putting Legal at the Center of Control13Legal’s Brand Image Problem and Its Toll on the Business14Operational Friction Manifests in Three Critical Ways that Hurt the Business17Legal-Specific Challenges: From Risk to Reputation19Business-Wide Fallout: Revenue, Accountability, and Awareness21Material Consequences: The Revenue Leak Nobody Owns22Legal’s Breakout Moment: Enforcer to Accelerator23 the contract? Introduction. Disruption isn’t on the horizon—it’s at the door. AIcontinues to reshape how we work. Global trade policiesshift overnight. Supply chains flex, break, and reroute. Yetthere’s a quieter issue inside the enterprise doing evenmore damage than any external shock: a total lack ofclarity around who owns your most valuable businessasset: your contracts. Contracts are the foundation of revenue earned and riskstaken. But in most organizations, if you ask who ownsthem you’ll get a dozen different answers with no clearaccountability. When ownership is unclear, accountabilityis blurred. When no one owns the contract, no oneowns the outcomes. That means missed renewals. Lostrevenue. Hidden risk. Slower deals. And legal teams arestuck reacting instead of leading. “Who owns the contract? Whatopportunities are we missing fromuntapped contract intelligence?” The value of contracts is the intelligence inside. Contractintelligence powers material KPIs that matter mostto executives, boards, and businesses. But contractintelligence is the most underutilized asset in anenterprise, and very few are capitalizing on it. Withoutthis intelligence, enterprises repeatedly underminerevenue growth, profitability, innovation, competitivedifferentiation, compliance, and more. Your BlueprintFor TurningContracts IntoGrowth Drivers Up to this point, most enterprises—from global giants toscaling start-ups—acknowledge the need for a contractlifecycle management (CLM) solution. What’s missing isthe next step of unlocking the intelligence within thosecontracts. AI-powered contract intelligence doesn’treplace CLM. It evolves it. It gives teams the power to findanswers, surface risk, automate workflows, and act oninsights trapped in PDFs, emails, and scattered systems. files into strategic engines that power AI, acceleratedecisions, and protect the enterprise. Welcome to the "Contract Intelligence Index (CII)Report"—a spotlight on the problems, challenges,and opportunities surrounding contract intelligence.The report focuses on the risks of organizationalmisalignment as well as the value of clarifyingownership to unlock contract intelligence that fuelsfaster business growth. The value of contract intelligence is realized only whensomeone fully owns the contract. Ownership drivesfocus. Focus drives strategy. Strategy fuels outcomes.Until enterprises bridge the gap between contractadministration and contract intelligence, they’ll continueto tactically manage documents instead of strategicallydriving results. This report is your blueprint. The "CII Report" draws from insights shared by250 U.S.-based in-house legalpractitioners and1,000 enterpriseemployeesacross industries—from finance to healthcareto tech. While the research originates in the UnitedStates, the challenges it reveals are anything but local.These respondents represent global organizationsoperating across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. Manyof them navigate contracts in multiple languages, legalsystems, and regulatory frameworks. Every quarter without action risks lost revenue, hiddenliability, and operational drag.Legal cannot afford to wait.The business cannot afford to wait. Legal teams are standing at the edge of a majorunlock. With the rise of AI agents, the opportunity toturn contracts into living, intelligent assets is finallywithin reach. These agents aren’t just another wave ofautomation; they are built to act, learn, and deliver valueacross the business. They require access to structured,connected contract data. What emerges is a shared global truth that fragmentedcontract ownership, inaccessible data, and underutilizedintelligence are universal issues that are slowingbusinesses everywhere. This report captures thosepatterns and highlights the opportunity for legal teamsworldwide to turn that complexity into clarity through AI-powered contract intelligence. That’s where Legal comes in. With the help of AI agentsbringing contract intelligence to life, Legal must own thecontract. When this happens, Legal doesn’t just supportthe business—it leads the business. Legal becomesthe driving force that transforms contracts from static It’s time legal and enterprise