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.
See how you stack up against peers in your industry
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
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
Your peers have cut legal involvement to 32%. Have you?
