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What is Ironclad?

From making to managing to storing, Ironclad Digital Contracting streamlines every part of your company's contract process — so you can focus on legal work, not paperwork. Legal teams at Asana, Dropbox, and L’Oréal use our platform to collaborate on contracts, negotiate better deals and mitigate business risk, even while working remotely. "Once you see how seamless and easy and intuitive Ironclad is… you will be hooked quickly." — Elyssa Dunleavy, L’Oréal AVP, Associate Counsel Ironclad was named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. In addition, Ironclad has been recognized for its breakthrough product and strong employee culture on Fast Company's 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, alongside companies including Google and Slack. The company is backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator and Emergence Capital.

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Product Description

From making to managing to storing, Ironclad Digital Contracting streamlines every part of your company’s contract process — so you can focus on legal work, not paperwork.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

1. All-contract flexibility. Workflow Designer, Ironclad’s no-code contract automation tool, allows users to design and deploy workflows in minutes, regardless of contract type. Unlike traditional contract tools, which focus on sales or procurement, Ironclad works for all contracts across all departments, including HR, Marketing and Operations.

2. First-class customer success. Ironclad deploys with Legal Engineers, who are legal operations and technology experts, and often gets customers up-and-running in under 30 days. Post-implementation, Ironclad provides Customer Success resources like Quarterly Business Reviews so that customers receive advanced analytics on their contract performance.

3. Modern, intuitive UI designed for Legal. Tools like Ironclad Editor and Dynamic Repository require no training and enable legal teams and other departments to conduct all contract-related tasks without leaving Ironclad. Ironclad connects to major cloud storage, CRM, eSignature and other providers so that everything lives in one place.


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Ironclad
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2014
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San Francisco, California
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599 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. L'Oréal, Salesforce, OpenAI and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It's the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Ironclad is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Leader in the Forrester Wave, member of the Forbes AI 50, and a Top Company to Bet Your Career On by Business Insider. The company is backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com


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"Horrible Software, Worse Support, Beware"
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David Z.
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"Ironclad Legal services for Pharma"
Ironclad is an excellent tool for us, as we engage in 100s of NDA monthly. Using Ironclad extremely frequent for our daily tasks where the process ...
Anthony M.
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"Efficient and easy to use"
The workflow designer is incredibly easy to update and adjust. Additionally, the workflow dashboard makes it very efficient for the legal team to t...
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Ironclad Demo - Workflow Designer
Workflow designer pairs powerful conditionality with a drag-and-drop UI, making it easy for Legal to make business processes into their contracts.
Ironclad Demo - Collaboration and Negotiation
Robust in-app editing, red-lining, and negotiation features make it easy for teams to work together to get the best deal done.
Ironclad Demo - Dynamic Repository
Ironclad’s Dynamic Repository brings contract lifecycle management into the modern era of intelligent, intuitive, zero-training-required enterprise software. With a blend of power and simplicity, Ironclad helps teams unlock the most underutilized source of business intelligence: contract data.
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David Z.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

Ironclad is an excellent tool for us, as we engage in 100s of NDA monthly. Using Ironclad extremely frequent for our daily tasks where the process is simple, easy to track with whom the action is, and see revisions/versions of the document, making all the process extremely smooth and user friendly.

Starting a new process/document is extremely easy to implement and the integration of Ironclad into other systems like SalesForce, help us keep track of opportunities and customers with just a click.

Even when you need support the team is there to provide customer support and guide your through the process which makes those unique scenarios less daunting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

Even though Ironclad is extremely useful and easy to use, it can be daunting to the newcomers, it requires some training and most of the times some handholding on the initial drafts. However after a couple of iterations, users are able to use this tool by themselves with low effort.

Customers need to submit their documents in only DOC, so PDF or other formats are not supported, where if the customer is not used to this system can be weird for them initially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

We generate 100s of NDAs per month globally, Ironclad help us keep the process as streamlined and smooth as possible accross the different business units. Making the process more user friendly and standarized to minimize human error or mistakes. This has decreased our NDA completion from 2-3 months, to a couple of days/weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CJ
Licensing Coordinator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

Intuitive AI with extremely fast response times are what, to me, makes Ironclad stand out against any other platform I use for work in the Licensing Industry. Most other platforms look and feel like vestiges of early 2000 internet design and functionality, with very low response times.

I use Ironclad on a daily basis and the alert and tagging functions are always making sure I am on top of my work and nothing is missed, which is really appreciated and also something that all other platforms I use leave a lot to be desired on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

The search function leaves something to be desired, the customised filters are not very helpful either. When trying to look for companies with names that are too generic I always find myself having to go through page after page of results. There should be a better disambiguation method to help me find the results I want.

Furthermore, I have tried in the past use customised filters for things like "Territory" or "IP", but despite knowing a specific contract had a specific term in it, the search did not help me narrow down the results to the contract I am looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ironclad makes it much easier to review contractual T&Cs for a company like SEGA where the same contract is being reviewed across three or more groups of stakeholders located in different parts of the globe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Georgina M.
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General Counsel
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

Our company went from another CLM that was essentially an online folder system. Ironclad is a true contract lifecycle management tool with customizable workflows for contract intake and negotiation through signature and archive. We now have a fully searchable contract Repository that serves as a single source of truth for our contracts. We can grant access to users based on group permissions. We have integrated Ironclad CLM with Salesforce thus allowing our sales executives to work from the platform they are most comfortable with. We have also integrated Ironcald Signature that works seemless with Ironclad CLM and this has allowed us to realize cost savings compared to other eSignature providers. Finally, we have also launched Ironclad Clickwrap for some of our software applications and the acknowledgement of the end user agreement and privacy policy pass into our Ironclad CLM Repository for contract tracking purposes. We are a private-equity owned business and Ironclad CLM has allowed us to scale our contract reviews, manage our contract repository, grow and expand our business with customizable tools that allow our attorneys and paralegals to focus on the most important strategic work. I am an administrator of the tool, have created all of the workflows and use the tool daily. Another stand out for Ironclad is their customer support, our previous "CLM" essentially had no real support. Ironclad has excellent legal engineers to assist with your implementation and after hyper-care they pass you on to a very responsive and helpful customer support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

The only downside I can think of is getting new users to take the time to do the training offered in Ironclad Academy and learning how to use the tool. When we did our initial launch we held several training sessions, however, now that we have been using Ironclad for almost 2 years it is tough to get new sales executives to leverage the training resources. Once they learn it, they generally love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some of the business problems we were solving with Ironclad CLM included: (1) an inconsistent contract intake process, (2) no searchable contract repository, (3) no way to manage group access to different types of agreements, (4) no self-service for any type of agreement (even templates such as nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements), (5) no standard approval process for contract exceptions, (6) having to collaborate on documents in sharepoint and then create a separate outward facing document to share with the counterparty, (7) tracking open matters in the review stage with a spreadsheet, (8) managing the document review process with emails outside of our CLM, and (9) the inability to scale our contracting process.

Ironclad CLM has given us the tools to solve all of these business problems and more. The more business issues we are able to solve the more creative our users become, creating new ways for us to leverage the tool. We are currently working on several new workflows to support our consulting and csm teams as well as new clickwrap implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ironclad?

Easy to use. Fields give clear understanding of what kind of file can be uploaded or what information is accepted. Because of that, it only takes a short time to get started and to complete. The Activity Feed has become essential when communicating with other users and has improved how quickly issues are resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

I still find it a little tough to search but have actively been working on utilzing the filters and learning how to create new views. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has streamlined our previous clunky process and taken it from something that was a pain point to a simple one screen solution. A few questions answered and a file uploaded means significantly less time spent on the process. The activity feed has helped streamline communications between users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Mikaela Waters of Ironclad

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience, Cory! I've linked an article from the Ironclad help center on advanced search. Shoot us a message to support@ironcladhq.com if this doesn't solve the problem - we'd love to help!

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Anthony M.
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Contracts Counsel
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

The workflow designer is incredibly easy to update and adjust. Additionally, the workflow dashboard makes it very efficient for the legal team to track and review agreements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

The repository is a bit clunky and there are some features that are not intuitive to utilize. For example, downloading partially signed agreements is a bit hidden from the users. The repository could be updated to resemble more of a folder system rather than having to create various custom views. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Agreements are now all streamlined within Ironclad whereas previously they had to go through different avenues and sometimes appropriate reviews were not completed. Now we can properly manage every contract according to our policy which reduces our risk and streamlines the contractual process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jenni Y.
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Contracts Operations Specialist
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

I have been impressed with the continual updates to their system that enhance user experience. Their integration with Salesforce has been very useful as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

As an administrator of our IC, their Support is extremely frustrating at times. I wish they would go directly to a zoom call if there is more than 2 back and forth comments. I have had to escalate a few times to resolve a system issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ironclad allows us to capture all the data, personalizing it to your specific needs. With use of forms, we are able to automate more of our process without loosing the personal interaction with a client/vendor. Integration with Salesforce is a major plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Mikaela Waters of Ironclad

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts, Jenni! These reviews mean so much to Ironclad and to peer companies making CLM buying decisions.

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What do you like best about Ironclad?

I really like how Iron Clad makes it easy to organize all of my contracts. Anytime that I need to renew a contract there is a workflow I can choose so that I follow very detailed steps to get the right teams engaged to review my contracts and when edits are made each version is saved. Once I am ready to sign my contracts I can easily tag the document and send it to my team and the counterparty for signature. If I even need to pull up an old contract I can easily find it via the search feaure. I like how you can also see what stage of the approval process each contract is in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

The interace is easy but its not very modern. It would be nice if the interface recevied an update to make it more modern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its helping me stay organized and ensure that contracts are easily moved from review to signature in an efficient manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

I love the customizability of the workflows, having a point of contact at Ironclad to assist with questions, concerns, and ideas, ironclad being able to integrate with many of our programs we already use, and how easy it is for our field to get the hang of it. If it weren't for IC, we would not be able to follow up on items required after contracting with the accuracy that we can now. It is easy and transparent for all users, and is a must have if your business deals with contracting and multiple parties. There is not a day that goes by that it is not used by our group. It was easy to navigate and set up, along with it being more useful than any tool we have ever had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

I wish searching in the repository was a little easier, but we have found workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ironclad has solved the ability for our company to follow up on items that are needed after the contract signing happens with accuracy, and it allows not just our group at corporate to view items out-standing, but the ability for the field to view the dashboards we have created to hold them accountable for follow up items needed. We have never had an accurate place to be able to manage that until Ironclad came along. It has been incredible for our renewal processes and being able to see when renewals are due and generate a queue based off of when they are due. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liat M.
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What do you like best about Ironclad?

What I like most about Ironclad is the ease of use and simple design. Creating workflows is very simple and fast and managing ironclad contract is simple and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

One thing that I would love that Ironclad improve is their views - I would love to be able to add a Kanban board for ease of use with sales teams and quick glances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ironclad is solving for our company the issue of version contral and centralized place for all contracts. It helps us with one shop stop for our sales and allows legal to focus on the important stuff while enabling automations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Mikaela Waters of Ironclad

Thank you for sharing this review, Liat! We're thrilled to hear that you find Ironclad easy to use - we think so too!

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What do you like best about Ironclad?

It is the perfect tool to ensure we can get our deals across the line. It allows you to prepare, edit and send contracts for signature in an easy way, provides reminders and helps you to seamlessly collaborate with your teams internally.

It is the contract management/email signature tool which our copany needs in order to get things done. My favourite features are the user-friendly interface, the automated workflows, the collaboration functionalities and advanced reporting and analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ironclad?

Can't really think of any, maybe the learning curve which it takes at the beginning (but as with any new tool) and once you are familiar with it it is very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ironclad solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us get our customers to sign deals and hence reach our company and individual goals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from McKenzie Gregory of Ironclad

We're so glad you've enjoyed Ironclad CLM and Ironclad Signature! Thanks for the review!