Jusletter IT

Contract portfolios are currently dominated by text. Turning them into more modern forms e.g. by visualisation or code is challenging, especially if they do not have their source in identifiable contract templates. There can be many thousand clauses and wildly divergent expressions. This paper adapts the Marie Kondo method as a novel way of clustering such contracts and clauses to reduce legacy complexity and to rationalise the amount of transposition work required. It illustrates the process steps and choices that can determine the fate of any contract digitisation or visualisation project.