Contract readiness checklist
Check the legal, security, and procurement items against the buyer's own requirements before the first redline goes out.
No ready-made setup for this job yet.
Describe the job in a sentence, the way you would brief a colleague: when it should happen, what to check, and what to hand you. That sentence is the automation.
The job, and what good looks like.
Contracts come back after the first redline with a security questionnaire nobody answered and a procurement form that needed a finance signature, and each bounce costs another week. This workflow checks the contract against the buyer's own requirements before anybody opens a redline. It collects the security questionnaire, the procurement form, the data-handling terms, the approval thresholds, and the signing authority, then marks each one with an owner and a status instead of a single in-progress tag. Standard answers come from the response library the team already maintains, so nothing is written from scratch under deadline. Anything the library cannot answer, or that needs a legal read, is named on the checklist with the person who has to answer it and the date they promised. The deal is not marked ready while a required item is open, which is a much harder conversation before signature than after it. A human still decides which buyer terms to concede, what the answer is to anything new, and when the deal is genuinely ready to sign.
When it is handled
- Redlines start with nothing outstanding
- Every requirement has a named owner
- Security answers reused, not rewritten
- Fewer redline round trips
Works with tools like
- Loopio
- Salesforce
- Salesforce CPQ
- Zendesk
You stay in charge.
At every step.
It does the legwork. You decide what reaches a customer.
- Nothing reaches a customer unasked
Replies and follow-ups wait in your drafts until you send them, or until you pre-approve them.
- Undo what you don't want
Every step is recorded, and a file it changed can be put back.
- Only the CRM and inbox you allow
Each automation reaches only the apps and folders you connect for it.
Before you download.
- Where does it run?
- On your Mac or Windows computer, in the background. It keeps working after you close its window, and only reaches the folders and apps you connect for each automation.
- How does it connect to our CRM and other tools?
- Through each app's own connection where it offers one, signed in once by you, or by using the app in a browser the way you would. Each automation gets only the connections you give it, and the tools a page names are examples you can swap for your own.
- Does it run when my computer is asleep?
- It keeps your computer awake while a job runs and just before a scheduled one. While the computer is closed or off, nothing runs; when it wakes, it checks the inbox, calendar and other sources it watches for anything that arrived meanwhile.
- How does my team use it?
- Each person who runs automations installs the app. Keep a project in a shared folder, such as Google Drive or a network drive, and teammates can open it and follow every run, while one person owns it and runs it.
- Do I need anyone technical to set it up?
- No. Download the app, add an automation in plain words, and connect only what that job needs. Nothing runs until you switch it on.
Already have tools for this? Here is the difference.
Your CRM's workflow rules
Updating fields and assigning records the same way every time.
They can't read a call, research a company or write a follow-up that sounds like you.
Flowchart automation tools
Moving data between apps at high volume.
Every exception becomes another branch someone has to build and maintain.
AI chat assistants
Drafting a reply when you ask for one.
Nothing happens until you come back and ask again, and the routine lives in a chat.
AUTOMATE.md
Your routine, written in plain words. It runs on its own, follows your rules, handles the exceptions a flowchart can't, and asks you when it matters. The file stays yours, whichever AI model runs it.
Related workflows.
Start with one job.
Make it your own.
macOS — coming soon- 1
Get the app
It runs on your computer, next to your files.
- 2
Add the automation
Paste the instructions into the app, or save them as a file next to your work.
- 3
Try it, then turn it on
Run it once and check the result. It only runs on its own once you switch it on.