LICENSING MANAGEMENT
Contracts become outdated as reference tools almost immediately after signing. Amendments pile up. Renewals trigger automatically.
And somewhere in that stack, the commercial terms you agreed have quietly stopped working in your favour.
Most organisations find out what their licensing agreements say when the vendor audits them
Data licences, software licences, content licences. Complex agreements negotiated carefully, signed, and then left to run. The business grows, the relationship evolves, and new order forms and amendments are added, each drafted in isolation, each assuming the reader knows everything that came before.
The person who negotiated the original agreement may have left, and the amendments are spread across three different systems. The current obligations, the ones that govern the relationship today, exist nowhere as a single readable document. Reading the full chain is time-consuming every time you need an answer.
You find out what your licences say when the vendor tells you that you are in breach.
The person who negotiated the original agreement has left. Their successor is managing a relationship on memory and a spreadsheet.
An amendment changed something material, but it was drafted as a standalone document and nobody connected it to the original. The current position is genuinely unclear.
Every licence consolidated. Every term surfaced. Every gap found.
Upload everything you have. Scanned PDFs, old Word documents, DocuSign exports, email attachments. No pre-processing needed.
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Give us everything
Upload every licence agreement in any format, any age. The platform ingests scanned legacy documents, multi-layer amendment chains, and anything else in your estate.
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Sort and group
Every master licence is grouped with its schedules, order forms, letters of variation, and amendment chain. The platform reads the language of the documents, not the file names.
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See what is there and what is not
Missing amendments are identified by reading clause cross-references within the documents themselves. Unsigned exhibits, lapsed caps, and inconsistencies between the original licence and subsequent amendments are all surfaced.
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Surface the gaps
Expiry dates, usage caps, audit rights, fee caps, and auto-renewal triggers are flagged in plain language. You see what needs attention and in what order, without a legal re-read.
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Know what your contracts say today
Every amendment consolidated into its originating licence. One accurate, current version of every agreement. You see what you are permitted to do, what you are paying for, and when it ends.
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Instant access, whenever it is needed
Key terms and obligations available to whoever needs them, in plain language. Any team member can answer a licensing question in seconds rather than opening 30 documents to find the clause.
What changes when your licensing estate is consolidated
With Consolidocs
Right now
You find out what your licences say when the vendor audits you.
You know exactly what every licence permits, caps, and when it ends.
A fee cap expired years ago. Nobody noticed. The payments continued.
Lapsed commercial terms are surfaced the moment the platform reads the contract.
Nobody has read the full amendment chain. The current version of the agreement is unknown.
Every amendment is consolidated. The current version is clear, accurate, and traceable.
Your licensing team manages relationships on spreadsheets and institutional memory.
Every obligation is in the platform. Any team member can find an answer in seconds.
A vendor claims you are in breach. You cannot respond quickly because the documents are in three systems.
You can pull exactly what the contract says before the call ends.
A large global organisation had a data licensing portfolio spanning several years.
The amendment structure was layered and had never been reconciled. An internal attempt to consolidate the estate had been abandoned. A previous external tool had failed to read the legacy documents accurately enough to be useful.
Consolidocs ingested the full estate, including old scanned PDFs with broken table formatting that previous OCR tools had failed to handle. It consolidated every amendment into its originating licence. It identified missing amendments not by checking file names but by reading clause cross-references inside the documents themselves. It surfaced a fee cap that had expired years earlier, with no subsequent amendment extending it. It flagged unsigned documents and sequencing gaps that had gone unnoticed.
The result was a complete, consolidated, accurate view of the licensing estate, for the first time.
"In the time it would have taken our team to read the first agreement, Consolidocs had read the whole estate and told us what we were paying for."
Large global organisation, data licensing proof of concept
100%
OCR accuracy and consolidation accuracy confirmed by the client, on legacy documents that previous tools and internal teams had been unable to read reliably. Large global organisation proof of concept, 2025.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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That is exactly the situation we were built for. We can read scanned legacy documents, old PDFs with broken formatting, and amendment chains that span decades. In a proof of concept with a large global organisation, we consolidated a licensing portfolio that a previous tool and an internal team had both failed to handle. Accuracy, including on legacy scanned paper, was confirmed at 100%.
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You can. Vendors are incentivised to make licensing complex, and they know the agreements better than you do. When you have your own consolidated, accurate view of what the contract actually says, that is a very different conversation.
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No. Scale is not the constraint. We can ingest and consolidate large estates. The larger and more complex the estate, the more value there is in having a real-time, accurate view of all of it in one place.
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A dashboard for each licence showing the key terms in plain language: what you can do, what you cannot, what you are paying, when it ends, and what needs your attention. You can also search across the whole estate horizontally to answer questions that span multiple agreements.