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● B2B offer — Contracts & lifecycle

Contracts: from drafting to expiry, nothing gets lost

A contract lives on after signature: obligations to meet, renewal dates, notice periods for termination, price reviews. Your agent tracks that full cycle — assembly from your templates, the signature process, then monitoring of obligations and dates. Hosted in France: your commitments and your negotiated terms stay with you. The legal department settles the clauses and decides on renewals.

Hosted in France Contractual commitments protected GDPR & AI Act: governed deployment Human oversight

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Contract lifecycle · hosted in France
What contractual dates fall in the next three months?
Nine contracts concerned: four automatic renewals, three price reviews, two ends of committed term.
For each: the applicable clause, the effective date and the notice period to observe.
Two notice periods are already running: they are put at the top.
🔗 Sourced · clauses of the contracts in force
What needs doing about the automatic renewals?
For each one I set out the renewal clause, the notice period and the terms that will apply to the new period.
Renewing, renegotiating or terminating commits the company for several years: that decision belongs to the legal department.
✎ Support · material gathered, legal decision
Local inference · no data outside the EU
Contracts hosted in France
Sovereign by designLocal inference or hosting in France
GDPR & AI Act: governed deploymentTraceability & human oversight
TurnkeyDesigned, installed and operated for you
The legal department decidesThe agent prepares, never rules
✦ In brief

A Blue Lemon Agent contract management agent covers the whole lifecycle: assembly from your templates, the signature process, then monitoring of obligations, dates and notice periods with the applicable clause cited. Renewing, renegotiating or terminating remains a legal decision. It runs on local inference or is hosted in France: your commitments stay with you, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.

100%
hosted in France in the target architecture
0
transfer outside the EU in the target architecture
6
contract uses ready to deploy
0
decision taken without human approval

These figures describe our offer, not results measured at a client. How large the gain is on your number of contracts and the variety of your templates is confirmed by a pilot.

The context

What does an AI agent bring to your contract lifecycle?

A date seen three months ahead opens a negotiation; seen after the renewal has gone through, it waits a year.

! The issue

A contract portfolio carries obligations, dates and notice periods scattered through the clauses. Keeping them up to date by hand means re-reading every contract regularly. The agent extracts these elements at signature, monitors them continuously and presents every date with the clause it rests on and the notice period to observe.

Our answer

The legal department sees the dates coming early enough to choose: renew, renegotiate or terminate. Those decisions commit the company for several years and remain theirs, as does settling the clauses at the drafting stage. Local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France: your commitments and your negotiated terms do not leave the company.

The decisive point

Your commitments and your negotiated terms: sovereignty & compliance

Your contracts contain your negotiated terms, often covered by a confidentiality clause. Here is how they are protected.

Local inference

The agent can run on a machine belonging to your organisation: no contract and no negotiated term leaves the network.

Hosting in France

Otherwise, a dedicated and isolated resource hosted in France, under French law — your contracts and their lifecycle: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.

Reduced extraterritorial exposure

For your commitments and your negotiated terms, the architecture aims to reduce exposure to the Cloud Act and FISA 702; being located in France or in the European Union does not, on its own, guarantee immunity.

Isolated resource

No pooling: an environment strictly dedicated to your company and its contract portfolio.

Every date refers back to its clause

Obligations, dates and notice periods are presented with the clause of the contract they rest on; encryption, role-based access and logging of each contract's cycle.

AI Act: governed deployment

The agent is strictly in support; no renewal is accepted and no termination is sent automatically; traceability and human oversight from end to end.

What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.

  • The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
  • Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
  • The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
  • Roles and permissions are configured and accepted for the identities and systems actually connected.
  • The events logged, their content, their retention period and who may access them are defined for the deployment chosen.
For strategic contracts, non-disclosure agreements and transactions in progress, SecNumCloud and reinforced hosting are options depending on your requirements. A single architecture is designed to answer both the GDPR and extraterritorial exposure. Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed.
Demonstration

See the agent at work

5 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.

A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.

The company in this demonstration

Fictional company

Velmaris — technical building operations group (multi-technical maintenance and energy)

Sector
Technical building operations — multi-technical maintenance, energy, fire safety
Headcount
240 staff, including a 3-person legal department (1 head of legal, 2 lawyers) and 4 contract administrators
Clients served
Social housing landlords, local authorities and corporate head offices, across France
Portfolio
412 live contracts, €31 M annual revenue, average three-year term with renewal
Tools in place
A 9-year document management system, an ERP, an e-signature workflow, shared calendars — the agent plugs into them, nothing is replaced
Who decides
The head of legal arbitrates the clauses and signs; the operations director approves the drafts; the executive board signs above €250,000
Room for improvement
The deadlines of 412 contracts live in a spreadsheet refreshed once a quarter; re-reading contracts to find a deadline takes 60 % of the legal department's contract time; a draft contract takes 3 days to assemble

Velmaris signs and renews a great deal, and wants every deadline to arrive early enough to open a negotiation rather than absorb one. The agent runs locally on a machine at head office and plugs into the document management system, the ERP, the e-signature workflow and the calendars: it drafts, tracks and monitors; the head of legal arbitrates and signs. The exchanges below cover six months, from taking on the portfolio to the review.

This company, its figures and the exchanges that follow were invented for the demonstration. They illustrate a common situation; they describe no real client.

Contract lifecycle · hosted in France
I read your 412 live contracts last night, amendments and schedules included, and pulled out 1,840 obligations and deadlines — each with the clause that grounds it, its page and its date.
What the portfolio carries, and what your quarterly spreadsheet saw part of:
· 96 deadlines fall due within six months, including 34 automatic renewalsan automatic renewal is the clause that extends the contract for a further period without anyone signing anything, simply because the notice window has closed.
· 21 price reviews attached to an indexation clausethe contractual formula that moves the price each year against a public index agreed at signature.
· 12 notice periods are already runningthe notice period is the time you must respect before a deadline to say you are not renewing; once it passes, the next period is committed. Those twelve are at the top of the list.
The gap I measured, and it is the gap that decides the gain: 232 of the 1,840 obligations live in an amendment or a schedule, not in the main contract. They are exactly the ones a quarterly re-read leaves aside, because they mean opening three documents instead of one.
What that gives you this morning: re-reading contracts to find a deadline took 60 % of your legal department's contract time; it now takes 7 %. Across three people, that is the equivalent of one and a half full-time posts handed back to negotiation.
What I suggest: the head of legal reviews the inventory by contract family — clients, subcontractors, leases, insurance — and I switch the quarterly spreadsheet to continuous tracking as soon as she approves it. Your current paths and file names keep working: nothing is renamed, nothing is moved. contract-inventory_1840-dated-obligations.pdf412 contracts, 96 deadlines within six months
⛓ Sourced · document management system (9 years), 412 live contracts, amendments and schedules, ERP
Our spreadsheet knows 180 of them. Where exactly do the others come from?
From amendments and special conditions, and I can show you the path to each one. Of the 1,840, 1,814 already point to a precise clause, page and paragraph.
How I find them when nothing indexed them: I read what is inside the documents, not their file names. An amendment saved as VELM_2023_am2_signed_ok.pdf is attached to its main contract by the parties, the subject matter and the date — and it brings in 4 obligations the original contract never carried.
The figure that does not flatter me, and what I did with it: 26 deadlines arrived without an identifiable clause. The cause is clear and measurable: 26 paper contracts from 2017 and 2018, scanned at 150 dots per inch, whose text was never recognised. I took each one back through its later amendments, which quote the original clause: 19 came back complete in two days. For the last 7, I wrote the 7 letters requesting a signed counterpart, one per counterparty, with the contract reference and the clause concerned. You signed them, they went out, and all 7 counterparts came back within three weeks: the portfolio stands at 412 out of 412.
What I take from that going forward: I go through recent filings in the document system once a month and attach new amendments to their contract. Of the 412, 61 documents had a name that says nothing about their content — those are the ones people hunt for on a Friday evening, and they are now found by their subject matter.
What I suggest next: that I set out, family by family, the obligations that fall on you rather than on your counterparties. That is the half of the portfolio nobody has ever listed. archive-recovery_26-deadlines-completed.pdf19 by cross-reference, 7 by letter, 412 out of 412
⛓ Sourced · amendments and special conditions, recovery log for the 26 scanned contracts
Go ahead. What falls on us is what costs us.
214 obligations fall on you, and 38 were due this quarter. 31 are done; the remaining 7 are prepared and waiting for you.
What those 214 are: 86 operating reports due to the client on fixed dates, 52 certificates (insurance, social security compliance, qualification), 41 site prevention plans to renew, 21 steering committee minutes, 14 performance undertakings measured against indicators your contracts name.
The 7 outstanding, and what I have already done on each: the 3 operating reports are drafted from the ERP readings, figures and charts in place — they only need your review. The 2 insurance certificates have been requested from your broker; the request went out on Monday. The Sarnier site prevention plan is rebuilt on last year's approved model, with only the changed lines highlighted. The committee minutes are written up from your notes.
What that is worth, priced on your own contracts: 9 of those 214 obligations carry a contractual penalty, whose amount is written into the clause in black and white: from €1,200 to €8,000 per breach recorded. Meeting all of them is worth €47,000 a year to your operating account, and it is the easiest figure in this whole conversation to check.
What I suggest: that every obligation falling on you goes into preparation 30 days before its due date, drafted and ready to review, and that I bring you the ones that call for a signature. You set the lead time, I hold to it, and it changes in one word. obligations-on-us_214-lines.pdf38 due this quarter, €47,000 of penalties avoided
⛓ Sourced · clauses of the 412 contracts, ERP operating readings, certificate calendar
Local inference · no data outside the EU

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Use cases

What does the agent actually do?

One agent, the whole contract lifecycle. All these uses work in support, subject to your approval.

Included in your agent The 3 capabilities essential to this promise are included, at no extra cost.
From 702 € excl. VAT / month

Assembly from your templates

Assembles the draft from your templates and your approved clauses.

Signature process

Tracks the progress of signatures and the state of each counterpart.

Dates and notice periods

Monitors renewals, price reviews and notice periods.

Controls and safeguards These 7 controls are built into the agent: they frame what it does, whatever plan you pick. They are not chosen and are not added to your order.
Human validation, exceptions and escalation Status, safe closure and audit trail Sources, access rights and handling of questions with no answer Work from a versioned corpus with citations and the law as it stood on a given date Preserve confidentiality, compartmentalisation and access logging Manage deadlines, versions, evidence and human validation Flag uncertainties and reserve advice, decision and signature for the lawyer
The gain

How many dates can a legal department see coming?

By taking on the extraction and the monitoring, the effort shifts towards negotiation. How large the gain is depends on your volume and remains to be confirmed by a pilot.

Re-reading the contracts to find the dates
Today · done by hand
Dates extracted and tracked
Tracking the signature process
Today · done by hand
Process tracked
Assembling the draft contract
Today · done by hand
Draft assembled, to approve
Indicative figures, not contractual, to be confirmed by a pilot on your number of contracts and the variety of your templates. Renewing, renegotiating or terminating commits the company for several years: those decisions belong to the legal department.
How it works

The stages of your AI agent project

1

Audit & scoping

15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.

2

Quote or direct sign-up

A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.

3

Design

We design the agent and its guardrails.

4

Integration & testing

We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.

5

Rollout

Going live and training your team.

6

Operation

Continuous supervision and improvement.

Pricing

One package, one agent

A contract management agent (drafting, signature, dates), installed and operated for you.

Agility

Setup + controlled subscription

8,105 € excl. VAT setup
then 702 € excl. VAT/month — you invest at installation and pay a reduced subscription. Ideal for keeping the cost under control over time.
  • Installation, configuration and training for your teams
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, a dedicated and isolated resource
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The simplest Serenity

All inclusive, no setup fee

1,152 € excl. VAT /month
all inclusive, immediate start. No upfront investment: a single subscription. Ideal for starting quickly and simply.
  • Setup included (installation, configuration, training)
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, managed end to end
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100% Sovereign

On site, you own it

12,130 € excl. VAT setup
then 921 € excl. VAT/month · + hardware from 2,491 € (one-off purchase, in addition) — a sovereign computer installed on your premises, maintained remotely. Models run locally, your data returned at the end of the contract. 36-month commitment.
  • Hardware installed on your premises (you own it)
  • French / European AI models run locally
  • Secure remote maintenance (Pro support included)
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Not included in the packages: AI consumption (model tokens), re-invoiced at real cost with no margin, and tracked in real time in your client area. Maintenance and supervision subscription for an initial term of 12 months for the Agility package, 24 months for the Serenity package and 36 months for the 100% Sovereign package, renewable; support levels (SLA 72 h / 24 h / 4 h) optional. Bespoke development, additional integrations or exceptional volumes are quoted separately. Support Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Prices exclude VAT.
AI model: none of the AI models offered currently carries a fixed surcharge. When the selected model carries a cost, that cost is shown when you choose it, before you order, and re-invoiced at the cost incurred, with no mark-up; usage is billed at the publisher's price. Publishers' prices are published in US dollars: the amount re-invoiced is the amount in euros actually borne by Blue Lemon Agent on the publisher's invoice, at that invoice's exchange rate, with no commission or mark-up.
Included components and additional components Components included in the base offer: the Blue Lemon Agent software foundation, the AI models listed in the order journey, the standard channels (Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp Business, email, website chat, calendars, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, file storage, market VoIP telephony, professional social-media pages and accounts, Google Business Profile), hosting in France for the package chosen, backups, supervision, updates and support. If adapting the AI agent to your constraints, your needs or your requests requires other paid components — a third-party publisher's software licence, paid API access to one of your applications, hosting of health data, for which French law requires an HDS-certified host (art. L. 1111-8 of the French Public Health Code), SecNumCloud-qualified hosting, a speech synthesis service, particular hardware —, they are offered to you as an option or on quotation and re-invoiced at the cost incurred; nothing is committed without your written agreement. Where the artificial intelligence model you choose entails an additional cost, that cost is shown to you before you order and re-invoiced to you at the cost incurred, with no margin.
What to expect
Go-live 2 to 3 weeks
Agent designed, channels connected, team trained.
Steady state 4 to 7 weeks
After a few weeks of real use, once the agent's behaviour matches what you expect. Indicative estimate, adjusted to the options you keep. It is not a delivery commitment.
Our commitment

Four guarantees that matter to your contracts

Your commitments stay with youLocal inference or an isolated resource hosted in France; no contract and no negotiated term entrusted to a third party, no data used to train a model.
Data in France, under French lawYour commitments and your negotiated terms: minimisation and location in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
The legal department keeps the decisionThe agent produces contracts tracked from drafting to expiry, which can be checked and altered; no approval is automated.
Human oversight & traceabilityOn your number of contracts and the variety of your templates: systematic logging and tracking, in line with the AI Act.
Frequently asked questions

Your questions, our answers

Does the agent accept an automatic renewal?
No. It sets out the clause, the effective date and the notice period, then waits for the decision. Renewing commits the company for a new period.
How are the dates extracted?
At signature, from the contract's clauses, and then presented with the clause they rest on. A date with no clause identified is flagged for re-reading.
What does the signature tracking cover?
The progress of the process and the state of each counterpart. Signature itself remains an act of the parties.
How does this differ from contract generation?
Generation covers drafting from your templates; this offer adds the signature process and the monitoring of obligations and dates through to the end of the contract.
Are our negotiated terms protected?
Yes. The agent is hosted in France, on local inference or an isolated resource, with the deployment objective of processing and access operated within the European Union and an architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. Your contracts are not used to train a third-party model.
How long does it take to deploy this agent?
A few months as a rule, depending on the size of the portfolio and the variety of your templates, after a free audit then phases of design, integration and testing.
Where does this agent stop, and where does contract execution begin?
It stops at the commitment: assembling from your templates, running the signature process, tracking obligations, dates and notice periods, and preparing the decision. A signed contract is not an executed contract: ordering, receiving, invoicing and paying stay with your procurement and invoicing agents, and regulatory watch with the agent that owns it. No capability is sold twice — drafting alone belongs to the contract generation agent, legal research to the legal agent, and compliance checking to the regulatory control agent.
Does a signature invitation amount to a signed contract?
No. An invitation sent remains an invitation sent. Until every party has signed the exact document and the final counterpart has come back, the case stays open and the agent shows it that way: a signature from one party only reads as “partially signed”, never as “in force”. Entry into force is established on the final counterpart, not on the sending.
Let's talk

Let's size up the potential in your contract portfolio

15 minutes to frame your contracts and your templates — hosted in France, supervised, with no commitment.