Contract obligation management software.
Move signed terms into accountable work.
Gotham helps legal teams identify candidate post-signature obligations, verify them against the executed contract set, and structure owners, triggers, dates, evidence and exceptions without separating the task from its source language.
The operational problem
A signed contract can be stored correctly while its operational commitments remain hidden. Renewal decisions, notices, reports, approvals, payments, service levels, data-return duties and exit steps often depend on triggers that a simple expiry-date calendar cannot represent.
The useful record is not an extracted sentence or a reminder alone. It is a verified obligation connected to the operative contract family, obligated party, trigger, accountable role, due logic, dependencies, required evidence and exception path. Gotham supports this structured handoff while qualified professionals retain responsibility for interpretation.
A defensible workflow, step by step
Assemble the operative set
Connect the executed agreement with amendments, schedules, order forms, side letters and notices before extracting post-signature work.
Identify candidate records
Surface duties, rights, conditions, prohibitions, dates and dependencies with a link to the supporting clause and document location.
Verify legal meaning
A qualified reviewer checks definitions, exceptions, precedence, amendments and whether the candidate should become an operational record.
Map ownership and triggers
Record the accountable role, performer, triggering event, date rule, dependencies, notice method and escalation owner.
Activate action and evidence
Route reminders around preparation and approval, then retain the proof, status and reviewer needed to reconstruct performance.
Reconcile change
When an amendment, waiver, renewal, termination or disputed event occurs, preserve history and revalidate every affected record.
What to evaluate before you buy
Source fidelity
Can an authorised user open the exact executed language, connected definitions and later amendments behind each record?
Conditional date logic
Can the system preserve the trigger rule and evidence as well as the calculated date, recurrence and recalculation history?
Ownership that survives turnover
Are accountable roles, current assignees, backups, dependencies and escalation routes represented separately?
Exception handling
Can teams record blocked, disputed, waived, late or superseded obligations without hiding the original state?
Contract-family change control
Does a later amendment or notice identify the records that require lawyer revalidation rather than silently overwriting them?
Integration boundaries
Can legal records connect to finance, procurement, service and records systems while each authoritative system remains clear?
Where lawyer judgment remains essential
Gotham is a work product and decision-support system—not a substitute for professional judgment. Outputs should be reviewed by a qualified professional with the relevant matter context.
- Whether language creates a duty, condition, right, representation, prohibition or remedy.
- How definitions, schedules, amendments, waivers and precedence provisions affect meaning.
- Whether a triggering event occurred and which date convention or exception applies.
- What evidence is sufficient and who can access privileged, personal or confidential material.
- Whether delay, dispute, waiver, breach, termination or another exception requires legal action.
Prove it in a bounded two-week pilot
Use representative work, a fixed baseline and named reviewers. The objective is not a polished demonstration; it is evidence about whether the workflow improves real work safely.
Design the pilot →Pilot scope
- One agreement type with a controlled set of executed contracts and amendments.
- A defined obligation schema, verification standard and business-owner group.
- Known renewals, event-driven duties and exceptions for benchmark comparison.
Measure
- Material-obligation coverage and unsupported candidate rate.
- Accuracy of source links, owners, triggers and calculated dates.
- Reviewer correction time, owner acceptance and exception visibility.