AAAry Aranguiz, CPTD, AIPMFounder & CEO, Future-Ready AI Group, LLC · I help SMB owners embed AI into everyday operations so work moves faster, more consistently, and more profitably | Google Cloud Generative AI Leader

How AI Saved a Client Thousands on a Contract

8 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter explains how an AI tool can be used to review a vendor/consultant agreement by scanning for risky clauses and comparing the contract’s terms to both the client’s historical agreements and industry benchmarks. The AI flagged a contingency fee of 50%—significantly higher than the typical 35‑40% range for that sector. Armed with this insight, the client renegotiated the fee down by about 10%, saving several thousand dollars. The entire review and insight generation took only four to five minutes, illustrating how AI can quickly surface cost‑saving opportunities in contract negotiations.

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And one of the examples that we talked about was how if you get a vendor contract, a vendor agreement, how AI can help you review the agreement for any clauses that you should be concerned about or that bring risk. It can compare it to the agreement that you've signed in prior years to see if any of the changes into the terms. And it also compares it to your industry. Is paying a vendor, you know, 40% of the contract industry standard on the high level. True story, we had a client who got an agreement and the agreement said that it's a contingency that they only have to pay for the services if the, if the consultant finds something, and the consultant wanted 50% of whatever he finds. Well, we ran it through AI, uh, we found that that's very high for that industry and 40 is normal, 35 is even more normal. We went back and we were able to save the, the client saved 10% on the agreement of whatever the person found. That was real money. It was a couple thousand dollars at the end of the day, simply by using the AI tool, simply by taking 4 or 5 minutes and running it through the AI tool.