Docusign is expanding its Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform in the UK, introducing new features aimed at contract management. These updates include capabilities for contract preparation, processing, and AI-powered review, enabling companies to create, review, and negotiate contracts more efficiently and reducing reliance on manual processes prior to the electronic signature stage.
In many organisations, the contract lifecycle remains a manual, cross-departmental process. Documents are passed back and forth multiple times, with different versions edited simultaneously and status updates tracked through email. On average, a single B2B contract takes four to six weeks to complete and incurs internal costs of around £750. The majority of time is spent not in signing, but in the preparation and review phases.
The Docusign IAM platform adds automation and AI across each stage, reducing the time from input to signature. A 2025 Deloitte report shows that companies with more advanced contract creation systems outperform financial targets by 55% compared with those that create contracts from scratch. It also reports that 77% of leaders in higher-performing organisations attribute success to agreement management, and 47% are more likely to exceed financial targets when using advanced routing, editing, and approval features.
Using AI-powered review through Docusign Iris, legal teams can review contracts more quickly and with greater consistency. The system analyses contracts in the source language, identifies clauses that do not align with internal guidelines, compares agreements against predefined playbooks, and suggests redline changes. Reviewers can accept these suggestions with a single action, supporting faster negotiation while helping to manage risk.
Docusign’s IAM platform not only supports digital signing, but also enables contracts to be treated as structured business data. Agreements contain information such as terms, liability provisions, pricing clauses, and compliance requirements. The new features allow this information to be analysed systematically, supporting more efficient workflows, reducing manual effort, and improving visibility across the contract lifecycle.
