A 150-person company. A landlord adding repair costs. A simple question — can I see the office lease? — that took days to answer, because the answer was not in one place. It was not really in any place.
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Paper
Signed originals in a cabinet, in an office nobody had a key to.
SharePoint
Three folders with similar names, two of them out of date.
Attachments in threads, findable only if you knew the vendor's name.
People who left
The person who signed it, and the context, gone two years ago.
Nowhere
Some we simply did not have. We had to ask the vendor for a copy of our own agreement.
The cost of that
You cannot push back on a charge, or cancel four parking spots, if you cannot read the terms you agreed to.
How it became a product
In 2025 our founder took over as CEO of a 150-person company and asked to see the office lease. Nobody could produce it. So he asked for the next contract, and the one after that — and it turned out there was no single place where any of them lived. Some were paper. Some were in SharePoint. Some were attachments in an inbox. Some the company did not hold at all, and had to request from the vendor. Each time someone left, a little more of what had been agreed left with them.
He built a small app to get the lease and its neighbours into one list. That took a weekend. Then the actual size of the problem showed up: notice periods that expire months before renewal dates, obligations buried mid-document, commitments spread across entities, and nobody able to answer “what are we on the hook for next year?” without a week of archaeology.
So the weekend app became a product: requirements, refinement, and a lot of conversations with operations and finance leaders. Every one of them recognised the story immediately. Different industries, same folder of PDFs, same six-month-old spreadsheet, same quiet suspicion that the company was paying for things it should not be. That is the problem Lumipact was built to end.
“Can I see the office lease?” should be a ten-second question. At most companies it is a three-day project.
Who is behind it
Lumipact is founder-led. Our founder has spent 20+ years building B2B software and applying AI inside real products — and then spent a year as the person who could not find his own company's contracts.
That is the whole origin: an operator's problem, built by someone who has shipped software for two decades and had to live with the mess for one of them.
Not a legal department in software form. One clear view of what the company has signed, what it costs, what is coming, and who decides — available to the people who actually carry those commitments: operations, finance, and the founder.
What we do differently
Contract software has existed for thirty years. It failed smaller companies because it assumed someone would sit down and type in every agreement, every date, every clause. Nobody ever did. Applied properly, AI removes that assumption entirely — which changes what the product can be, not just what it costs.
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Every contract is read on arrival — uploaded in bulk or forwarded by email — and comes back with counterparty, dates, value, notice period and type already filled in. The step that killed every previous attempt at this simply is not there.
02
Every extracted field shows the clause it was read from, alongside a confidence score. Correct anything in place and the change is logged, together with the value it replaced. Trust in a contract system has to be earned field by field, not claimed on a marketing page.
03
The data model, the review flow and the alerting were all designed on the assumption that a model reads first and a person confirms. That is a different product from a 2015 contract repository with a chatbot added in 2024.
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Extraction runs on Anthropic's Claude. Connect your own API key and it runs under your account, your agreement and your retention terms instead of ours. Your contract text is never used to train a model either way.
How we work
Founder-led, shipping directly to the people who use it. The product stays deliberately narrow — the features that win enterprise legal deals are exactly the bloat that makes contract management impossible at this size.
The features that win enterprise legal deals are exactly the bloat that makes contract management impossible at this size.
The application runs in Frankfurt, contract data sits in EU infrastructure, tenancy is enforced in the database, and we do not sell or share customer data — handled the way we would want our own contracts handled.
No SOC 2, no penetration test, no SSO. The security page lists all of it, because you will find out eventually and it should not be three weeks into an evaluation.
Read the honest splitGuided setup is included on every plan: we import your contracts with you and review the deadlines together, rather than handing you an empty workspace.
Where we're going
Contracts are where we started because they are where the surprises are. But a signed agreement is only one kind of commitment a company carries — there are renewals, obligations, entitlements and promises that sit outside any PDF. We grow with our customers, in the direction they push us: one place that organises every contract commitment you have, so nothing about what you owe or are owed depends on who still works here.
Today
Every signed contract in one place, read by AI, with renewals and notice periods tracked.
Next
The obligations inside those contracts — what you promised, not just what you pay.
The goal
Every commitment your company has made, organised in a single place.
Upload ten contracts and see the deadlines you did not know about. Free trial, no credit card, guided setup included.
Questions, or want to compare notes on the mess? hello@lumipact.com
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