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2026 CONTRACTING BENCHMARK REPORT

Your Roadmap to Contracting Excellence

Get industry-level benchmarks for key contract management KPIs, including cycle times, negotiation rates, and legal involvement.

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What We’ve Analyzed

industries

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Ironclad customers

YEARS OF DATA

What’s inside the report?

  • Part 1: The contracting value realization framework
  • Part 2: Benchmarks and trends shaping contract performance
  • Part 3: The CLM maturity assessment
  • Part 4: Benchmarking your organization

What’s changing for contracting in 2026?

Organizations are accepting longer implementation timelines to build deeper, more sustainable systems

White text on a green background reads: 14% reduction in enterprise legal involvement.

Integrating CLM with systems of record like Salesforce is giving organizations more control

Industries with less mature governance are seeing metrics collapse under market pressure

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See how you stack up against peers in your industry