Frequently Asked Questions
What exactly do you do for a larger firm?
Where are your margins under pressure or non-existent? How well do you differentiate yourselves from your competitors? How can you get closer to your clients to reduce the likelihood of them being poached by a rival?
Manual cut-and-paste editing followed by end-to-end proof-reading is hugely inefficient. Automation of the initial drafting produces an advanced first draft in a fraction of the time. The possibilities for exploiting this approach are endless.
Perhaps you will want to make an automation available internally, to improve the productivity and profitability of a department completing fixed-price transactions.
Perhaps you will want to make an automation available to specific clients – outsourcing routine drafting while retaining the higher-value consulting services.
You can test-drive an online NDA here, or from the home page. Call us afterwards on 02 070 960 659 to discuss the possibilities for you to exploit this approach to your advantage.
What exactly do you do for a niche firm?
The nature of your niche, your status within it, objectives and available budget all influence how to help you bring your core knowledge and experience to the benefit of more clients.
Perhaps it means finding ways to start building awareness and trust amongst potential clients earlier in their business cycles, long before they need your higher-value consulting services.
Perhaps it means making your core knowledge and experience available on-demand for simple applications, to encourage potential clients whose circumstances are more complex, to contact you directly for your higher-value consulting services.
However you understand your objectives, exploiting the reach of the Internet to demonstrate your competence directly to your prospective clients, on-demand, can help you achieve them.
You can test-drive an online NDA here, or from the home page. Call us afterwards on 02 070 960 659 to discuss the possibilities for you to exploit this approach to your advantage.
What exactly do you do for an In-house service?
How much pressure are you under to speed up preparation of the first draft of a contract? How much of your time do you spend on data-entry and proof-reading rather than decision-making? How soon could you determine which of your contracts contain a specific variant of a liability clause?
Manual cut-and-paste editing followed by end-to-end proof-reading is hugely inefficient. Automation of the initial drafting produces an advanced first draft in a fraction of the time. The possibilities for exploiting this approach are endless.
Perhaps your sales-team could be empowered and sales cycles shortened by a self-service pre-approved first-draft sales contract.
Perhaps the overload for contract preparation for special events or during renewals season could be eliminated.
Perhaps there is a better way to understand your exposure to contract risk and compliance reporting than having to search through reams of contract documentation.
You can test-drive an online NDA here, or from the home page. Call us afterwards on 02 070 960 659 to discuss the possibilities for you to exploit this approach to your advantage.
Pricing is based on the scope of your planned implementation. There are four major components to consider:
A Licence: the cost of which depends on how many named users or concurrent users or templates you wish to run.
Installation: the cost of which depends on whether you host the software yourself or make use of Black Opal Systems SaaS (Software as a Service) capability.
Set-up: the cost of which will depend on the complexity of the first document(s) to be automated.
Training: the cost of which will depend on the extent to which you wish to automate and maintain your own documents or outsource the work to us.
In all cases, discussions begin with establishing the basic business case necessary to justify an investment.