The contract approval workflow that nobody can bypass.
Define who approves which contract, in what order, and let top.legal enforce it automatically before signing. No more chasing sign-off by email.
Manual approvals cost speed and control
Governance that runs the moment a contract appears
No one has to remember to request sign-off — the approval workflow evaluates every contract for you.
Uploaded, drafted from a template or classified into a deal — the workflow fires automatically
Value, term, clauses and missing documents are extracted, with a confidence score you can check
Conditions match the contract to the right approvers — by value threshold, risky clause or missing document
The contract is blocked and routed; signing only unlocks once every required approval is in
Describe your policy, not a flowchart
Write your approval rules in everyday language and @mention the teams who sign off. The AI turns them into structured rules you can review and adjust.
- Thresholds, clauses and missing documents as conditions
- Users, teams, the deal owner or a deputy as approvers
- Per-folder policies, with trusted authors exempted
Approvals that trigger on what is inside the contract
The AI reads every contract — its value, clauses, dates and missing documents — and matches the content against your rules. When a condition matches, the contract is blocked and signing stays locked until the required approval is granted.
A matched rule is a hard gate, not a reminder — the AI enforces adherence to your approval policy on every contract, automatically.
Approval chains that match how you decide
Ask everyone at once, or build an ordered chain where each approval unlocks the next. A rejection anywhere halts the chain and a fallback approver can step in.
Everyone is asked at once. Unblocks when all approve.
One after another. Each approval unlocks the next.
Everything a contract approval process needs
From the first rule to the final signature, fully under your control.
Conditional routing
Approvers are pulled in only when a contract warrants it — over a value threshold, with a risky clause, or missing a document
Sequential sign-off chains
High-stakes contracts can require an ordered chain like Manager, then Legal, then CFO — each step gated on the last
Team approvals
Route a task to a whole team — any member can pick it up and approve, so an out-of-office approver never stalls a deal
Reminders and due dates
Set a response window and a reminder cadence so approvals keep moving instead of waiting on someone to remember
Trusted-author exemptions
Exempt named users or teams per folder, so trusted authors are not held up by their own contracts
Hard signing gate
A contract physically cannot proceed to signature until every required approval is complete and recorded
Prove who approved what, and when
Clear accountability
Every approval task has a single owner; only that owner can act, and every decision is recorded
Transparent routing
Approvers see what the AI extracted, which rule matched, and exactly why the contract was blocked
Complete audit trail
From the matched rule to the final signature, every step is logged and ready for review
Automate your approvals, keep the control
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