Obligate

I'm researching how procurement, finance and legal-operations teams keep track of what their contracts oblige them to do after signature — renewal notices, notice periods, minimum commitments, price caps, and the evidence that someone actually acted.

The pattern I keep seeing described in job postings is a person maintaining a spreadsheet: tracking renewal dates, watching for auto-renewals, chasing the obligations buried in agreements nobody re-reads after signing. I want to understand how that really works, and what breaks as companies grow or combine.

I'm building software for it. It is early. There is nothing to demo and nothing to sell yet — which is exactly why I'm having research conversations instead of showing anyone a product.

If this is part of your work, I'd value twenty minutes. I'd mostly be asking how you handle it today.