This blog outlines four areas where contract automation and AI are helping procurement teams make better decisions—and a bigger impact—across the business: intake, negotiations, obligation management and contract analysis.

Legal teams are increasingly leveraging AI in 2026 to automate repetitive tasks like contract intake, negotiation and obligation management, effectively reducing deal bottlenecks and operational risks. 

With new tariffs being levied, procurement and legal teams need to reassess their contracts. Here we highlight the key contract clauses to review for managing tariff-driven price fluctuations.

As part of our “Docusign @ Docusign” program, our Legal Operations and Procurement teams have been transforming their agreement workflows using Agreement Manager and Workflow Builder, two platform services in the new Docusign IAM portfolio.

Docusign IAM includes an AI-powered agreement repository that helps your team find important contracts fast. It puts an end to missing agreements and helps you answer a range of new questions about your contracts.

Track and manage customer contracts inside an AI-powered agreement repository, and proactively set alerts and create rules to automate renewal activities.