Dock 365 vs CLM365

Stay in Control Without Managing a Second Platform

Dock 365 is your librarian for filing contracts in the right places, your legal assistant for drafting and first-pass reviews, and your compliance officer for keeping every approval on track — all running on the Microsoft 365 tenant you already manage, not a second system with its own logins and access rules.

Why do you need a contract management solution?

Visibility

Know where every contract, request, and renewal stands without hunting it down.

Compliance

Stay on top of every activity & version so there are no surprises about what happened to contracts during audit season.

Speed

Move contracts through drafting and approval quickly with the right approval controls applied automatically.

Scalability

Add contracts, departments, and users without adding new systems or licenses.

Security

Trust that your contract data stays safely within your organization.

How Dock 365 Compares to CLM365

Visibility

Connected repository

Every contract lives in one connected repository, linked to related contracts, vendors, customers, invoices, and projects—with AI automatically extracting key obligations, clauses, and dates

Compliance

Audit trail

Stay on top of every activity and version so there are no surprises about what happened to contracts during audit season.

Speed

AI and automation

Draft from templates and a shared clause library, then let AI run first-pass reviews that flag clauses misaligned with your playbook before a contract reaches you. Approval workflows route automatically, with Dock 365 sending the reminders.

Scalability

Grows with you

Add new departments, contract types, or thousands of additional contracts without buying a separate system or re-architecting anything — Dock 365 scales on the same Microsoft 365 tenant and SharePoint storage you already have.

Security

Microsoft standards

Built natively on Microsoft 365 so every contract stays inside your own tenant, backed by SOC 2 Type II certification.

Your team's trusted global partner.

"With every agreement centralized, searchable, and versioned, staff can quickly locate past contracts and replicate prior-year terms for recurring agreements, rather than starting from scratch."

Anonymised review from US customer

26%
Efficiency improvements. Time saved, cost down, confidence up

Frequently asked questions

  • We don't have a dedicated in-house contracts person right now. Is Dock 365 still worth it for us?

    Yes. Dock 365 replaces the bottleneck rather than recreating it: configurable approval workflows route review and sign-off automatically to the right people, so no single person has to be the gatekeeper for every contract request.

  • Our contracts are scattered across email, SharePoint, and personal drives, with no clear view of what's signed or expiring. Can Dock 365 actually bring that together?

    Yes. Dock 365 gives you a single, searchable repository for every contract, regardless of which department created it or which platform it started in — with keyword search across the full text, so you can find what you need without knowing which folder or inbox it's sitting in.

  • How does Dock 365 stop everything from bottlenecking through one person?

    Configurable workflows route contract review, redlining, and approval automatically to the right person, with clear visibility into status at every stage. That removes the need for a single in-house contracts person to be the gatekeeper for every request. Requests can also be triaged based on priority or urgency.

  • Can we tell which version of a contract is the most current one?

    Yes. Dock 365 maintains a single version-controlled record for every agreement, with a full history of edits, redlines, and approvals. This ensures staff and partner facilities are always work from the latest version.

  • We're growing fast and expect to handle a much higher volume of similar contracts. Can Dock 365 keep up?

    Yes. Standardized templates and clause libraries let you generate consistent, compliant agreements in minutes instead of drafting from scratch. This means that your paperwork burden does scale at the same rate as new facilities or service lines you're building

    • Ready to take control of your contracts?

    Speak to our team to see how you can simplify your contract management

    Our contract process didn't fit neatly into the rigid workflows offered by many vendors.

    Dock 365 was the last vendor I looked at, but it quickly became clear it was the right fit

    Jennifer McGaffey

    Legal Operations Manager, Short Elliott Hendrickson