15/10/2026
"Yes, we have contracts."
"No, I have no idea what's expiring next month or if we actually use them as intended."
Sound familiar? Here's the fix
— and it takes under two minutes …
Pick your top 50 suppliers by spend.
For each one, ask yourself two questions:
1. Do we have a contract? Can you find it in under two minutes?
2. How much did we spend with them last year and how are we progressing to date — and how much of that is clearly covered by that contract?
If you can't answer question 1, stop there. Fix that first.
If you can't answer question 2 within a minute, you don't have a contract management problem. You have a spend linkage problem.
Those are two very different things — and almost nobody talks about the distinction.
A full CLM system won't fix it. A SharePoint folder won't fix it. A spreadsheet with renewal dates definitely won't fix it.
What fixes it is simple: contracts in one place, linked to clean spend data, with just enough structure to tell you what's at risk and when.
That's what we built. No redlining. No e-signing. No 200-page implementation project.
Just contracts, contract warnings, spend, and the connection between them — finally in one place where they can do their job. And it’s all part of the basic CostBits package which you can try for free here: https://hubs.la/Q04cj67z0
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