Contracts + e-Sign · the platform layer
A contract isn’t a file.
It’s a live control that fires across every stage.
Vakari ingests contracts on any paper, extracts every term, and makes the document work — pricing the request in procurement, checking the invoice in AP, and drafting the accrual at close. Native e-signature binds every obligation on the same connected record. Your ERP is the system of record. Vakari is the system of connection.
What Contracts + e-Sign does
Capture → Organise → Understand → Govern → Act → Prove.
Eight capabilities, one arc: from a filed document to a live control.
Ingest
Any paper, any format — counterparty templates, your own MSAs, scanned PDFs. No house template required.
Repository & version control
Every agreement catalogued, tagged, and version-controlled. An amendment is a new version of the same record.
Term-level search
Extraction turns clauses into structured data — search by what a contract says, not just keywords.
Review & approve
Agreements route for review with SoD enforced structurally. A preparer cannot approve their own work. Every decision is logged.
Automated actions
Renewal monitoring drafts the notice before the window closes — not an alert, a draft that routes for approval.
Contract transformation
Terms become downstream artifacts: an ASC 842 lease memo, a journal entry accrual, an invoice-validation rule. The document becomes the accounting.
Analytics
Portfolio-level insight — exposure by vendor, upcoming renewals, obligations, spend under contract. Because the terms are data, not PDFs.
Embedded e-Sign
Native, identity-bound signing. Every signature cryptographically tied to a verified identity. Supports vendor contracts, NDAs, and internal control attestations.
What Vakari does not do
Contracts + e-Sign does not author, redline, or negotiate contracts. Vakari operationalises agreements — ingesting, extracting, and activating terms — on whatever paper the parties produce.
The platform layer
The same executed agreement works three times.
The important terms fire: they trigger a downstream financial event in another application. One contract, the whole connected record.
It drafts the request.
Before a PR is submitted, the contract surfaces its own terms — price, renewal window, approval chain. The requester types one sentence; Vakari fills in the rest.
It checks the invoice.
The clause validates the invoice unit price in real time — a fourth match, against the contract, that no competitor runs. An overbill is caught before payment staging.
It drafts the entry.
Volume tiers and CPI escalators fire the accrual, drafted months earlier from the same terms. By close, the entry already exists — traceable to the source clause.
Why contracts can’t be a bolt-on
SAP Ariba partnered with Icertis for CLM rather than build it — because CLM cannot be built credibly on a procurement data model. Vakari can, because everything runs on one connected record. The contract fires into procurement, AP, and the close because it sits under all three, not beside one of them.
Native e-signature
Signing happens inside Vakari — on the record, not beside it.
Native signing keeps the executed agreement attached to the same record that becomes the PO, the invoice match, and the posted entry.
Identity-bound
Every signature cryptographically tied to a verified identity — provably the signer’s, independently verifiable.
On the connected record
The executed agreement stays on the same record that becomes the PO, the invoice match, and the posted entry. No reconnection step.
Vendor contracts & NDAs
One-sided and mutual agreements, vendor contracts, and master service agreements — any obligation that needs a signature.
Certifications & attestations
Internal control sign-offs, SOX attestations, and audit certifications — identity-bound, on the same audit trail.
Contracts + e-Sign
Ready to make a contract work for you — from intake to posted entry.
We’re collecting a small group of early customers to go live before general availability.
