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Building the Business Case for Lease Automation

The spreadsheet argument. A CFO-ready framework for quantifying current costs, projecting automation benefits, and answering the "why not just use AI?" objection. Includes fill-in-the-blank worksheets and talking points for the CFO, the GC, and the COO.

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PDF
Pages
26
Chapters
5
Building the Business Case for Lease Automation cover

The Field Guide

What this guide is, and what’s actually in it.

Before a lease automation investment clears the CFO, it needs a number. Not a vision, not a vendor deck, a defensible, line-item estimate of what the status quo costs today and what a different approach is worth.

This guide is the worksheet. Quantify the current state in hours × deals × rate. Put a dollar figure on the post-signing errors nobody is tracking. Project the benefits using a conservative model the finance team will actually believe. And walk out with the talking points for the three questions every executive will ask, including "why not just use AI?"

Contents

Inside the guide, chapter by chapter.

  1. § 01

    Quantifying the Current State

  2. § 02

    The Cost of Errors

  3. § 03

    Projected Benefits

  4. § 04

    Total Cost of Ownership

  5. § 05

    The ROI Framework

Quoted in

Most of the "unavoidable" legal costs in a portfolio aren't unavoidable. They're the downstream cost of drafting that was never consistent in the first place.
The lowest-risk technology investment you can make is one where the vendor does the work, the pricing tracks usage, and the value shows up before the annual invoice does.

Written for

People who’d recognize themselves in here.

  1. § 01

    Internal champions (GC, VP Leasing, COO) preparing a board or exec-committee ask

  2. § 02

    CFOs stress-testing vendor ROI claims with their own numbers

  3. § 03

    Legal Operations leaders needing a defensible model, not a marketing one

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