Workday Contract Intelligence, powered by Evisort AI, helps businesses proactively manage risks from volatility, such as tariffs, by quickly surfacing trade-exposed terms and enabling real-time collaboration. It allows organizations to move from reactive to proactive by providing AI-driven insights and analysis of their contracts, leading to faster, informed decisions and significant time and cost savings.
Written by Steve Nunes, Product Marketing Manager for Workday Contract Intelligence, powered by Evisort AI
In today’s global economy, disruption isn’t the exception—it’s the expectation. From sudden tariff hikes and regional conflicts to inflation and shifting regulatory policies, volatility has become a constant. For enterprise organizations, especially those with global supply chains or trade exposure, the financial impact of these disruptions can be enormous.
Yet many businesses remain dangerously unaware of what lies hidden in their own contracts—until it’s too late.
When new tariffs hit, the first question legal and finance teams ask is, “What contracts are affected?” Unfortunately, most can’t answer that quickly.
Why? Because contract data is often siloed, unstructured, and buried in PDFs across different systems, business units, and regions. By the time teams locate the right documents, extract key clauses, and assess risk, days or weeks may have passed—and the opportunity to act swiftly has vanished.
With global trade policies in flux and economic pressure mounting, organizations need to shift from reactive to proactive. That starts with knowing exactly what’s in your contracts.
With global trade policies in flux and economic pressure mounting, organizations need to shift from reactive to proactive. That starts with knowing exactly what’s in your contracts.
Enter AI-native contract intelligence. Workday Contract Intelligence, powered by Evisort AI, leverages a purpose-built legal AI engine to help enterprises:
Surface trade-exposed terms instantly, like pass-throughs, tariff escalation clauses, and renegotiation triggers.
Classify and prioritize risk with custom scoring and visual dashboards tailored to your business priorities.
Enable real-time collaboration across legal, procurement, finance, and operations to make faster, more informed decisions.
Instead of manually searching through thousands of files, Workday Contract Intelligence gives you the power to ask a question in plain English—and get an answer backed by clear reasoning and contract citations using our Ask AI feature.
When a major technology hardware provider experienced a sudden supply-chain disruption that prevented it from making timely deliveries, the organization's legal ops team needed to assess options for recovering losses across 24,000 contracts—fast.
Using Workday Contract Intelligence the provider built a custom AI model in under 30 minutes to scan all of these agreements for impacted clauses. The result?
600+ contracts that allowed for invoicing on partial shipments identified in less than a day
Millions of dollars saved
What would have taken months manually was done in hours—with complete confidence in the data.
According to Forrester’s 2025 report “B2B Leaders Thriving in Volatility,” B2B leaders must “ruthlessly prioritize market segments, lean into scenario planning, and embrace enterprise risk visibility” to stay competitive. That kind of preparedness starts with contracts.
Think of your contracts as your organization’s single source of truth for obligations, revenue protections, and compliance. But without AI, that truth remains buried.
Think of your contracts as your organization’s single source of truth for obligations, revenue protections, and compliance. But without AI, that truth remains buried.
With Workday Contract Intelligence, legal and business teams can:
Track regional contract exposure by supplier, cost center, or jurisdiction.
Model financial risk based on termination-for-convenience clauses or indemnities.
Surface fallback clauses or renegotiation triggers that create flexibility during volatile times.
Whether it’s tariffs today or privacy laws tomorrow, being able to answer questions like “Which of our vendors allow us to raise prices or terminate under force majeure?” or “Which customer contracts require updated DPAs under new regulations?” is no longer a luxury—it’s essential.
Contract intelligence doesn’t stop at legal. It empowers:
Procurement teams to validate vendor compliance and cost pass-through terms.
Finance teams to model risk and adjust forecasts in real time.
Sales teams to avoid margin surprises or delivery delays due to undisclosed penalties.
HR teams to understand if employees or their work terms are impacted
And because Workday Contract Intelligence integrates with Salesforce, Ariba, Docusign, and more, AI-powered contract insights flow directly into the systems your teams already use—no disruption required.
Unlike generic models, contract-specific AI trained on millions of legal agreements can interpret defined terms, capture nuanced language, and understand jurisdictional context—making it far more effective for analyzing and managing legal documents at scale.
Even better, teams can build their own AI models without writing a single line of code. Ask a question once, and turn it into a live data field that applies across your entire repository.
Want to know which contracts auto-renew next quarter, or where rebate terms exceed 10%? Just ask.
Uncertainty isn’t going anywhere—but your contract data doesn’t have to be a black box. AI-native contract intelligence gives you the visibility, speed, and accuracy to stay one step ahead of global disruption—no matter where it comes from.
When the next tariff hits, will you be ready?
Join our next Workday Live webinar, “Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Turbulence: Navigating Uncertainty With Contract Intelligence” to see how leading enterprises are using Workday Contract Intelligence, powered by Evisort AI, to navigate volatility and protect their bottom line.
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