Deal & contract office · Module 1 of 7
Every date buried in every contract. Found, tracked, and chased.
Dispatch routes trucks. This routes deadlines. Morthn reads your contracts, MSAs and agreements and pulls out every dated obligation — renewal dates, notice windows, milestones, contingencies, compliance filings, payment dates — then chases whoever owes them. Often that is a third party: a lender, a title company, a carrier, opposing counsel. People with no login to your software. Which is exactly why this work is still done by a human everywhere.
What this module does
Four capabilities that show up in week one.
01
Reads the contract, not the file name
PDF, DOCX, or a scan of a scan. Every dated obligation comes out as a structured record: what is owed, by whom, by when, and the clause it came from. Click any date and land on the sentence that created it.
02
Ranks by notice window, not end date
The most expensive date in any contract is the last day you can give notice before it silently auto-renews. Nobody gets an alert when a contract auto-renews — you find out on the invoice. From our own testing: a $14,500/mo MSA with a 90-day notice window. Miss the window and that is $174,000 locked in for another year.
03
Chases the third party who owes it
The lender, the title company, the carrier, opposing counsel, the sub. Email and SMS in your voice on a timed escalation ladder until the obligation is met or it lands on your desk. These people were never going to log into your software. That is the whole reason this never got automated.
04
Flags what it cannot read
Anything below the confidence threshold is flagged for a human instead of guessed. A wrong date is worse than no date, because a wrong date looks handled.
How it works
You hand over contracts — a folder, an email forward, or a bulk upload of your existing paper. Morthn extracts every dated obligation into a register, each one linked back to the clause that created it, ranked by the notice window rather than the end date. Then it runs the chase: internal reminders to your team, and outbound email and SMS in your voice to whichever counterparty actually owes the date. Anything the extractor is not confident about goes into a review queue instead of into the register as fact. A real person on our side owns the register and is accountable for what is in it.
Integrates with
Compliance + guardrails
Faithfulness first: nothing is guessed. Every extracted date carries a confidence score and a citation to its source clause, and anything below threshold is flagged for human review rather than written into the register as fact. Morthn does not give legal advice and does not serve legal notice on your behalf — notice letters are drafted and queued for your approval and your signature. Third-party chase sequences respect quiet hours and stop on request. Full audit trail on every date, every source, and every message sent.
Tier availability
Available on every tier
FAQ
Common questions about Deadlines & Obligations.
Our contracts are scanned PDFs from 2014. Does that break it?
Those are the ones this exists for. OCR plus extraction handles scans, faxes and photographed pages. Quality does vary with the scan — which is why low-confidence extractions get flagged for a human rather than silently entered. A bad scan becomes a question, not a wrong date.
Can it actually make the other side do the thing?
It does what a good ops person does: chases, on schedule, with the clause attached, until someone responds or it escalates to you. It cannot compel anyone. What it removes is the common failure — nobody chased at all, because nobody had the date on a list.
What happens as a notice window closes?
You get escalated at the intervals you set (default: 90, 60, 30, 14, 7 and 1 day out from the notice deadline, not the end date), with the draft notice letter already sitting in your queue for signature. The point is that the decision is still live when it reaches you.
The rest of the deal & contract office
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Renewals & Notice Windows
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Commission Reconciliation
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Proposals & RFPs
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Security Questionnaires
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Bid / No-Bid Qualification
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Marketplace Account Health
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