Why Sirion is at the Forefront of CLM

Sirion leads the global market as an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform. It sits at the forefront of applying agentic AI to transform how organisations store, create and manage their contracts.

Through advanced extraction capabilities, conversational search functionality and AI-powered negotiation tools, the platform has fundamentally changed how enterprise teams handle contracting – spanning legal, procurement, sales and finance departments.

Organisations such as Vodafone, IBM and Morgan Stanley rely on Sirion, which oversees more than 7 million contracts worth close to US$800bn, while managing connections with more than a million suppliers and customers across at least 100 languages.

Industry recognition and market leadership

Sirion has been recognised for its leadership by analysts such as Gartner, Forrester and IDC. Procurement Magazine recently ranked it third in our Top 10: Contract Lifecycle Management Platforms.

Sirion has also been highly regarded by Spend Matters for its leadership position in the CLM space, showcasing its commitment to breakthrough innovation.

In 2025, Sirion was named in the number one spot in Spend Matters Fall 2025 SolutionMap – its score was the highest of the 30 providers for overall CLM, with it scoring highly across all key capabilities, including contract authoring, negotiation, search, obligation and service level management.

Aravind Aluri, Chief Product Officer at Sirion, said: "No one understands enterprise customers better than Sirion and this recognition is a testament to that. With the new generation of the Sirion platform, we are taking this focus to the next level by combining enterprise-grade AI with an intuitive conversational interface.

"At its core are expert agents capable of drafting and negotiating contracts, analysing risks and managing obligations with the precision and judgment of seasoned practitioners.

"Our recognition as the #1 CLM provider by Spend Matters validates this approach and underscores our commitment to delivering technology that meets real business needs — because that's what our customers demand every day."

Next-generation CLM with agentic capabilities

When this leadership title was announced, Sirion stated it was continuing the advancement of its platform with agentic capabilities to further improve its CLM offerings.

In October 2025, Sirion launched its next generation agentic CLM platform, as the solution would bring in the industry's first 360 conversational contracting experience, AskSirion, built for enterprise-grade trust, speed and scale.

AskSirion would be the tool to unlock the full spectrum of the platform's agentic offering, providing the user with instant access to expert agents across every step of the contract lifecycle – charting the journey from the initial draft and negotiations, all the way through to post-signature governance.

Ajay Agrawal, Founder and CEO, Sirion, says: "In contracting technology, enterprises have been trapped between rigid, menu-driven systems that are hard to use and a new wave of generic GenAI wrappers that sound smart but don't understand your business.

"We are changing that today.

"Sirion's agentic CLM, built on agentOS™, delivers practitioner-grade, explainable AI that empowers legal and business teams to move faster with the confidence that every action is grounded in expertise. And with Sirion's 360 conversational contracting experience, users can command the full power of the system in plain English – so they can focus on outcomes, not interfaces."

Addressing enterprise contracting challenges

Sirion provided particular help amidst the complex landscape of enterprise contracting. With research from the World Commerce & Contracting stating that enterprise contracts on average take 24-30 weeks to complete, typically involving more than 80 friction points across the lifecycle.

76% of respondents in WorldCC-Deloitte research reported inefficiencies in their contracting processes.

It is vital that teams are using CLM tools to focus on contracting intent and outcomes – rather than see them create new barriers. Without a deep system of expertise, users can find themselves spending more time navigating menus, configuring workflows and managing interfaces than focusing on driving benefits.

That is where Sirion's agentic tools take these potential barriers away, with purpose built AI agents, which have been trained by attorneys and subject matter experts, to handle complex tasks, interpret user intent and act with the precision of seasoned practitioners.

The platform is powered by a wide range of out-of-the-box agents, all built on agentOS™, Sirion's AI-native operating system, including:

• Search Agent – finds, reasons and retrieves contract intelligence instantly
• Draft Agent – drafts contracts based on approved templates
• Issue Detection Agent – identifies deviations from playbook at the issue level
• Redline Agent – surgically redlines deviations with clear explanations
• Extraction Agent – converts documents into structured contract intelligence
• Playbook Agent – transforms institutional knowledge into standardised playbooks

Amplifying human expertise: The true power of AI

Sirion pointed towards early adoption users who have seen immediate benefits, such as contract review and redlining that once took days are now completed in minutes.

End-to-end cycle times shrink by nearly 50%, with 80-90% acceleration in focused use cases, such as first-draft, redline and search. With specialist AI agents handling the heavy lifting, teams reclaim hours and refocus on higher-value work.

AskSirion is an AI agent which offers similar support to a legal adviser, working as a conversational chatbot, where users can describe their needs and the AI works to interpret the request, orchestrate the right agents and deliver results.

This tool can allow departments such as legal, procurement and contract teams to handle more tasks – from drafting and redlining to extracting intelligence, assessing risk and managing obligations – with a simple prompt. At each step, users receive plain-language explanations for all actions and insights, fostering complete transparency and trust.

Kanti Prabha, Co-founder and President, Sirion, adds: "At Sirion, we believe the true power of AI lies in amplifying human expertise — helping teams work smarter, faster and with greater confidence.

"We built the Sirion agentic CLM platform to tackle the three biggest challenges enterprise contract teams face: removing friction through natural conversation, cutting through complexity with specialised agents and building trust through explainability.

"From purpose-built AI grounded in deep contracting expertise powered by 30 million contracts to the AskSirion conversational interface and the underlying agentOS™, every design choice reflects that intent – to deliver AI that is explainable, reliable and enterprise-grade."

agentOS™ offers a secure and scalable framework for building, orchestrating and governing purpose-built agents. Its multi-model design intelligently deploys carefully selected combinations of both proprietary and open-source language models – ranging from large to small – to ensure enterprise-level accuracy and dependability.

When standard pre-configured agents fall short of particular requirements, organisations can develop tailored agents directly within agentOS™ – bypassing conventional development timelines. Through ongoing adaptation and capability expansion, agentOS™ enables a continuously evolving, enterprise-ready CLM solution with unlimited extensibility.