Everyone in Contract AI Suddenly Has a “Benchmark.” Here’s How to Read One.

Four different things “benchmark” can mean in contracts AI — and the questions that separate useful evidence from a dressed-up press release.

A few weeks after I launched this newsletter — The Contract Signal — TermScout launched a “Contract Signals Report.”

I’ll take the overlap as validation. The framing works in part because contracts are becoming more than documents to store, negotiate, and search. Once you parse through the dense language, contracts start to look like signals: of risk, le…