Sales contract
Sales contract AI analysis: every clause, every price and every commitment reread before you sign
Signing a sales contract commits your organisation to prices, lead times, warranties and obligations for years. Zylio’s AI analysis reads the proposed contract, extracts every clause and every financial term, checks them against your references (initial quote, framework rates, price history, standard contract template) and shows you what departs from them. You sign knowing what you are signing.
The problem
Three questions to settle before signing a sales contract
Whether you negotiate for a subsidiary, a franchise network or a parent company, the contract commits you financially and logistically, often for years. Three questions decide its quality.
Does it meet the identified need?
Are the scope, quantities, lead times and service levels written in the contract those of the need approved by your management, or those the supplier found convenient to propose? The gap between the two is paid for every month afterwards, for the whole term.
Are its financial terms fair?
Do the prices respect the initial quote, the framework rates negotiated at group or network level, and the market references you have? Are the discounts, thresholds and ancillary costs (delivery, installation, support) the ones that were announced during negotiation?
Can it be reused?
Negotiated terms must be archived in a usable form, to serve as the reference for the next negotiation and for demand forecasting across the group. A contract signed and filed away in a folder serves only once.
What is read
What the AI analysis extracts from a sales contract
Subject and scope
Products or services, quantities, sites concerned, term, exclusions and options: what you are actually committing to, and what you are not.
Prices and financial terms
Unit prices and lump sums, discounts and thresholds, additional costs (delivery, installation, support), revisions and indexation, each with its effective date and its cap.
Payment terms
Payment periods, deposits, late-payment penalties, early-payment discounts: what weighs on your cash, and what must stay consistent with your framework agreements and your own payment policy.
Obligations and warranties
Delivery lead times, service conditions, warranties, liability in case of breach, penalties owed by each party: who owes what, and what happens when it is not delivered.
Term and exit
Expiry, tacit renewal, notice period, termination conditions, fate of stock, tooling and data at the end of the contract: how you leave, and at what cost.
CSR commitments
Environmental, social and governance clauses: what they promise, whether they are measurable, who reports on them and how they will be followed up over the term.
How it works
What the contract is checked against, and what you see
The Capture agent reads the proposed contract, whatever its format, and extracts every clause and every financial term, each linked to the exact place in the document where it was read. It reads the reference documents you give it the same way: the initial quote, the framework contract negotiated at group or network level, your standard contract template, and your price history on the same products or services.
On prices, the check is line by line: every price in the contract is set against the initial quote, the applicable framework rate, what other entities of the group paid for the same reference, and the market references you have. Discount thresholds, additional costs and payment terms are compared the same way. Whatever is more expensive, shorter or more restrictive than the reference is flagged, with the gap quantified.
On clauses, the contract is compared with your standard template: missing clause, changed clause, unusual clause, obligation unbalanced between the parties. Each flag shows the proposed text and the reference text side by side. Nothing is decided for you: you get a list of gaps, each with its proof, to discuss with the supplier or with your legal team before signing.
The overbilling lines that are hard to see with the naked eye, and their impact on margin.
CSR commitments
CSR clauses, read like all the others
In private contracts as in public procurement, environmental, social and governance commitments are more and more often contractual, and more and more often audited. The analysis extracts them like any other clause and asks three questions: are they clearly defined, are they measurable, and are they consistent with your own company’s CSR policies and published reports?
Risky clauses are flagged: working conditions at subcontractors left unaddressed, environmental impact not covered, a commitment worded without an indicator or a deadline. For a long-term contract, the CSR performance indicators written into it are identified so they can be followed up later, with their definition, their frequency and the party responsible for reporting them. Judging what is acceptable remains up to you.
A CSR commitment without an indicator or a deadline is an intention. The analysis flags it; you decide whether it is enough.
What changes
What changes for the person who signs
Negotiation is prepared with facts. Instead of rereading a thirty-page contract and comparing several quotes and a framework rate by hand, you receive the list of what departs from your references, quantified and sourced, in the order of what it costs. The discussion with the supplier is about precise lines, not a general impression.
Risks are seen before signature, not after. An unbalanced liability clause, an excessive late-payment penalty, a tacit renewal with a short notice period, an installation cost missing from the initial quote: each is flagged with the text alongside. What would have been discovered at the first dispute is discussed while it is still negotiable, and while you still have a choice.
The signed contract becomes a reference. Its terms are archived in a usable format, linked to the supplier and the products, and serve demand forecasting and the next negotiation. It is also what then makes it possible to check that every invoice respects what was signed, on the page dedicated to compliance with negotiated prices.
Bring a contract under negotiation and its initial quote: we show the gaps.
What we do not do
What the AI analysis of a sales contract is not
The analysis replaces neither your lawyer nor your negotiator: it gives them a list of sourced gaps to save time and forget nothing. It does not contact the supplier, does not modify the contract and sends it nowhere. Your contracts and price references are hosted in France, never shared between customers, never used to train a model. Zylio is a member of La French Tech Grand Paris.
Zylio investigates, people decide. The analysis lists the gaps and their proof; it does not sign, does not negotiate and gives no legal opinion.
Hosting in France, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, full audit trail.
Nothing is lost. Everything can be checked, everything can be proven.
- The contract clause and the invoice line, highlighted side by side.
- Every extracted value stays linked to the exact place in the document where it was read.
- The same case produces the same decision, today as in six months: the rules are applied deterministically.
- No discrepancy is set aside in silence. Anything that matches no rule is raised, with its reason.
- The agent records what it did, in the order it did it: who, what, how much, when.
Frequently asked questions
Does the analysis work for a sales contract as it does for a purchase contract?
Yes. The sales contract is read from the point of view of the party committing to buy or distribute, and the references used are theirs: initial quote, framework rates, price history, contract template. A supplier who sells can run the symmetrical exercise, with its own references and its own template.
Which references are the contract prices compared with?
Those you provide or that Zylio has already read for you: the supplier’s initial quote, the framework contract negotiated at group or network level, the prices paid by your other entities for the same references, and the market references you have. Every comparison shows its source.
Does Zylio give a legal opinion on the clauses?
No. It compares the proposed contract with your standard template and flags what is missing, what has changed and what is unusual, with the text alongside. The legal assessment and the decision to sign remain those of your legal team and your management.
What happens to the contract once signed?
Its terms are archived in a usable format, linked to the supplier and the products concerned. They serve as the reference for demand forecasting, for the next negotiation and for checking the invoices that follow, if you choose to activate that control on the same contract.
Measurable impact in every environment
More than 5 million procurement documents analysed
Between 1 and 7% of margin recovered
on the scope analysed
From 15 to 45% of time given back to teams, per FTE
depending on the scope and on data maturity
Zylio fits into your existing ecosystem.
The ERP runs the process. Zylio handles the exception and recovers the value that escapes it: invoices without a purchase order, line-by-line price discrepancies, duplicates and overbilling, off-contract spend.
Your data under high security.
Zylio meets the most demanding standards, and nothing is committed without your approval.
- Certifications
- Hosting
- Encryption
- Access
Going further
- Contract analysisReading framework contracts and rate schedules, and what is extracted from them.
- Compliance with your negotiated pricesAfter signature: every invoice checked against the negotiated terms.
- Gap analysisHow price gaps are detected, quantified and proven.
- See the platform in a demoOn one of your contracts, agents and proof on screen.
See what this looks like on your own data
Twenty minutes, on a spend category of your choosing. We show you what the agents detect, with the evidence behind it.
- No commitment, on your own data
- Result in 3 weeks
- 20 minutes, no sales pitch
- Your data stays hosted in France
- No change of tool or process