Every contract, owned — and never missed.
The register is not a filing cabinet. It is a live list of dates with a named owner against each one, and somebody whose job it is to act before the window closes.
| Ref | Contract | Counterparty | Value | Key date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB-0311 | Master Supply Agreement | Tier-1 distributor | £480k/yr | 14d | Flagged |
| DB-0294 | Commercial Lease — Unit 4 | Landlord SPV | £120k/yr | 42d | Review |
| DB-0356 | SaaS Platform Licence | Software vendor | £36k/yr | 6d | In hand |
| DB-0402 | Distribution — DACH | EU channel partner | €250k/yr | 183d | Active |
| DB-0417 | NDA — Project Atlas | Project counterparty | — | rolling | Active |
| DB-0188 | Rates appeal — Units 4 & 7 | Valuation Office | £90k | settled | Closed |
Clients will access this live through the Dinmore portal.
Of annual revenue is the figure most often cited for value lost to poor contract management. Almost none of it appears in the management accounts.
Missed renewals, breaks or expiries across every estate we hold, since inception.
Until the next notice window closes on the sample estate above. We draft the notice; we don't just flag it.
The lifecycle, and where value leaks
- 01
Request
Who can ask for a contract, on whose template, and who approves a departure from it. Without this the estate is unmanageable from day one.
Leak — off-playbook terms - 02
Negotiate
Positions agreed in advance so nobody concedes an indemnity at 6pm to get a deal signed before month end.
Leak — conceded liability - 03
Execute
Signed, dated, countersigned and captured. An agreement that exists only in somebody's sent items is not an asset.
Leak — unrecorded obligations - 04
Abstract
Value, term, notice period, renewal mechanics, assignment, change of control and termination rights, pulled out and recorded.
Leak — unknown exposure - 05
Watch
Flags fire before each window opens. Renewals, breaks, reviews, expiries and price-escalation dates, each with a named owner.
Leak — silent auto-renewal - 06
Act
Notice drafted and served, renegotiation opened, or exit executed. This is the step that distinguishes a function from a dashboard.
Recovery — leverage retained
Built here, not licensed
We are a tech-enabled firm. The back end is ours.
The Contract Control Centre is not a licence we resell. It is our own platform, built for the way we work, and it is a material part of what a retainer buys. A firm running off a shared drive and a calendar reminder cannot do this at our price.
Every engagement is onboarded onto it in week one. The register above is what a client sees, against their own estate.
Abstraction engine
Agreements are read once and reduced to structured data: term, notice mechanics, value, indexation, assignment, change of control. The dates that matter become records rather than paragraphs.
Date watch
Every window has an owner and an escalation path. Flags fire before it opens — into our workflow first and your inbox second, so the action is already underway when you hear about it.
Matter workflow
Disputes, recoveries and negotiations run on the same spine as the register. That is why a weekly digest and a board-ready monthly summary fall out of the work instead of being written up afterwards.
Client portal
Your register, your matters and your recovery schedule, live on the same platform — so what you log into is the working system, not a report about it.
Bespoke
None of this is licensed software with our name on it. The register, the alerting and the reporting were built for how Dinmore Bell actually runs a contract estate, which means they can change the week a client needs them to rather than in a vendor’s next release.
GC Tech
What we build for ourselves will be available to in-house teams who already have a General Counsel. The problem we solve is not exclusive to companies without one, and a legal function that runs on spreadsheets is a legal function regardless of who leads it.
A ninety-day window, found with eleven days left.
A distribution agreement worth £480,000 a year carried a five per cent indexation clause and a ninety-day notice window. Nobody in the business had the date. We built the register in week one of the engagement, served notice with eleven days to spare, and renegotiated the uplift to nil for two years.
