Ashgrove mapped 1,200 legacy contracts to its playbook in a week

Twelve hundred contracts nobody had read lately

Ashgrove owns and manages office buildings in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Dublin. When it bought a portfolio of twelve buildings, it inherited 1,200 leases and service contracts drafted by four previous owners.

Nobody knew what was in them. Reading them by hand would have taken the legal team of four most of a year.

The playbook, run backwards

Ashgrove ran the whole archive through Proviso against its own playbook. Instead of reviewing a new draft, the team got a map of where every signed contract departed from its positions.

Risks found before they renewed

The review found 38 contracts with uncapped liability and six about to renew on poor terms. The team renegotiated those first, and now reviews every inherited contract the same way.