TV Nova: A clause library treated as infrastructure
TV Nova was replacing its contract system. It put the lasting value in the data, not the software, so the work survives the next platform.
The challenge
TV Nova was replacing its contract management system. The usual framing, picking a better application, would have put the value in software the company will replace again. The team wanted the lasting value to sit in the data: a clause library, an element library and metadata that survive the next platform.
What we did
We help the team design the contract data model rather than shop for a platform. The clause library is run as master data management, structured data instead of spreadsheets, configurable per template so one dictionary serves many templates without duplication. The element library does three jobs at once: master data for the templates, the mapping layer for migration off the legacy system, and a machine-readable export that feeds AI template generation. AI governance was fixed before any agent exists: a drafting agent may use approved clauses only, never free text. An AI layer extracts metadata from the existing contract archive, clusters similar clauses and proposes consolidated wording for lawyers to approve, and tests template logic before templates reach users. The sequencing is deliberate: must-have templates ship for go-live without the library, the library is built in one step afterwards, and only metadata that cannot be read out of the contract text is migrated. The project is under way.
Where this comes from
The work is in progress and no figures have been measured yet, so we publish none. Our full account of the thinking behind it is here.
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