If your contracts are stalling somewhere between a forwarded PDF and a "quick question" from Finance, you're not alone. Most contract delays don't come from slow reviewers. They come from the gaps around the review: unclear intake, undocumented approval rules, and handoffs that happen without shared visibility.

This playbook is a practical, end-to-end guide for Finance, Legal, and IT teams who want to stop reinventing the process every time a contract comes through. It walks through what good intake actually looks like, how to build approval workflows that scale without becoming bureaucratic, and how cross-functional review works when roles and outcomes are clearly defined.

Inside, you'll find:

• Why contract workflows break down before Legal is even meaningfully involved, and where the real delays are hiding

• What strong intake looks like and the specific details that prevent rework from stacking up mid-review

• How to build approval rules that actually scale, including what Finance, Legal, and IT are each evaluating and why

• How to run cross-functional review without turning it into a relay race where the baton keeps getting dropped

• What fixes approval bottlenecks in practice, from assigning stage ownership to surfacing stalls before deadlines get tight

• How lifecycle visibility ties everything together, so your team always knows where a contract is, who owns it, and what it's waiting on

Whether you're trying to reduce approval bottlenecks, bring more structure to your intake process, or simply get everyone working from the same playbook, this guide gives you the framework to make it happen.

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