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Contract obligations

Know what your contracts commit you to

Zefort helps your team keep contractual obligations visible and track related activities, deadlines, and responsibilities.

Contract obligations
The challenge

Signed doesn’t mean managed

The people who negotiated a contract know its terms. Others need those commitments made visible to act on them. Without that visibility, routine questions mean reading agreements again, and obligations can go unmonitored.

Obligations stay buried in documents

Service levels, reporting duties, and notice requirements need ongoing attention. Yet the teams responsible often have to read each agreement to find out what they need to track.

Spreadsheets give an incomplete picture

Manually recorded obligations reflect what someone captured at the time. Amendments can leave that information outdated, while new questions mean reading the contracts again.

Responsibility falls between teams

Legal, procurement, and operational teams may each handle part of an agreement. Without a named owner for each obligation, everyone can assume someone else is following up.

How Zefort helps

Stay on top of what’s been agreed

Zefort helps you identify requirements in your agreements, record key details, and set activities and reminders for the people responsible. Your team reviews the information and confirms what has been completed.
01 / Investigate

Understand what your agreements require

Search contract text for reporting duties, notification requirements, and other commitments. Use filters to narrow the agreements and read the relevant clauses in context.

Zefort Agent can investigate questions across contracts you have permission to access and prepare findings for your team to review against the original wording.

Contract obligations
02 / Structure

Save the details your team needs

Once you’ve identified a commitment, record its key terms, dates, and responsibilities in Zefort’s customizable metadata fields so your team can refer to them without rereading the agreement.

Enter details manually or use AI Custom Metadata to suggest values from contract documents. Review and correct the suggestions before using them.

AI Custom Metadata
03 / Follow up

Give the next step an owner and a deadline

A recorded obligation still needs someone to act on it. In Zefort, you can create an activity connected to the contract, choose the due date, and send reminders to the contract owner or other selected users and groups.

Authorized users can mark an activity as completed and add a note, giving colleagues a clearer history of the follow-up when responsibilities change.

Contract reminders
Customer story

How Elenia makes contract obligations visible

Elenia used Zefort’s AI features to identify and structure key clauses and obligations across its existing agreements, reducing manual review and giving teams a clearer view of their contract portfolio.

Read Elenia's story
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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Search agreements stored in Zefort for wording related to reporting duties, service levels, or notice requirements. OCR makes text in scanned contracts searchable, while filters help narrow the review to relevant suppliers or contract types.

You can also ask Zefort Agent to investigate commitments across contracts you have permission to access. Your team reviews the findings against the original clauses to confirm the obligations and their conditions.

Yes. You can enter key terms, dates, and responsibilities manually in customizable metadata fields. When enabled, AI Custom Metadata can suggest values from contract documents for your team to review.

Yes. Create an activity linked to the contract, set its due date, and select the contract owner, users, or groups to receive reminders. Recipients must have access to the agreement.

No. Zefort helps you record obligations and track related activities. Confirming that a report was delivered or a service level was met requires evidence from your team or other systems. Marking an activity complete records your team’s update, rather than independently verifying performance.

Authorized users can mark activities complete and add notes. The contract’s audit log records actions taken on that contract in Zefort, helping colleagues trace who did what and when. Access depends on your permissions. These records do not, on their own, prove that an external party fulfilled its obligations.