# Contract lifecycle management and e-signature for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

Gane Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "contract lifecycle management platform" and as "e-signature and contract management tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/revops/contract-lifecycle-management-and-e-signature/2026-10/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/revops/contract-lifecycle-management-and-e-signature/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Icertis Contract Intelligence leads with 21% of first choices; verdict contested. 56 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Icertis Contract Intelligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/icertis-contract-intelligence/index.md) | 21% | 22% | 58 |
| 2 | [Ironclad](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/ironclad/index.md) | 18% | 17% | 53 |
| 3 | [DocuSign CLM](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/docusign-clm/index.md) | 14% | 20% | 49 |
| 4 | [Agiloft Contract Management Suite](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/agiloft-contract-management-suite/index.md) | 9% | 11% | 44 |
| 5 | [DocuSign](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/docusign/index.md) | 7% | 9% | 11 |
| 6 | [ContractSafe](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/contractsafe/index.md) | 5% | 33% | 12 |
| 7 | [Sirion](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/sirion/index.md) | 4% | 7% | 29 |
| 10 | [ContractWorks](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/contractworks/index.md) | 4% | 45% | 11 |
| 11 | [Conga CLM](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/conga-clm/index.md) | 2% | 28% | 39 |
| 12 | [Concord](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/concord/index.md) | 2% | 17% | 12 |
| 13 | [SpotDraft](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/spotdraft/index.md) | 2% | 20% | 10 |
| 17 | [Adobe Acrobat Sign](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/adobe-acrobat-sign/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 16 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 64 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: no first choice; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Ironclad
- GPT-5.4 mini: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Ironclad, Ivalua, Sirion
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Ironclad; alternatives Conga CLM, DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Sirion
- Perplexity Sonar: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign CLM, Ironclad, Sirion
- Grok 4.20: Icertis Contract Intelligence, Sirion; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign CLM
- Mistral Small: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Conga CLM, DocuSign CLM
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Ironclad; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Sirion
- Llama 4 Maverick: Ironclad; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Conga CLM, DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Icertis Contract Intelligence, Sirion Labs; alternatives Conga CLM, DocuSign CLM, Ironclad
- Kimi K2: Sirion; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Ironclad
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Conga CLM, DocuSign CLM, Ironclad
- MiniMax M2.5: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Conga CLM, Ironclad
- GPT-6 Luna: Ironclad; alternatives Conga CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign CLM, Ironclad

## Sources the answers cite

79 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- bindlegal.com: 45 answers, 94 citations
- sirion.ai: 41 answers, 84 citations
- conga.com: 38 answers, 40 citations
- zylo.com: 29 answers, 29 citations
- oneflow.com: 27 answers, 28 citations
- ironcladapp.com: 26 answers, 30 citations
- larksuite.com: 23 answers, 23 citations
- docusign.com: 22 answers, 26 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://conga.com/resources/blog/contract-management-tools (34 answers)
- https://zylo.com/blog/best-contract-management-software (29 answers)
- https://oneflow.com/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software (24 answers)
- https://bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/best-enterprise-clm (23 answers)
- https://larksuite.com/en_us/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software (22 answers)
- https://quickbase.com/blog/best-contract-lifecycle-management-software (21 answers)
- https://haqq.ai/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software (17 answers)
- https://bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/best-contract-management-software (14 answers)
- https://ironcladapp.com/journal/contract-management/best-contract-management-tools (14 answers)
- https://bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/enterprise-contract-management-software (12 answers)

## Warned against

- Icertis Contract Intelligence: 13 of 58 labels negative. "Stay away from Ironclad and Icertis unless you have a legal operations team large enough" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Conga CLM: 11 of 39 labels negative. "Conga CLM works best for companies already using Salesforce, limiting standalone flexibility, and its interface can feel complex for first-time users" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Ironclad: 9 of 53 labels negative. "avoid named-user / value-based enterprise CLMs such as Icertis and Ironclad" (Muse Glimmer 30B, budget prompt)
- DocuSign CLM: 10 of 49 labels negative. "DocuSign CLM has reported limitations with customization options and challenges with customer support responsiveness and administrative flexibility" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Ironclad (22%) to Icertis Contract Intelligence (22%). Margin 4 points, within noise.

- Icertis Contract Intelligence: 10% to 22%, +12. Cleared the floor by 1 point · rank 4 → 1 of 64.
- DocuSign: 20% to 8%, −12. Cleared the floor by 1 point · rank 2 → 5 of 64.
- Sirion: 12% to 4%, −8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 3 → 7 of 64.
- Ironclad: 22% to 18%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 → 2 of 64.
- DocuSign CLM: 8% to 12%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 7 → 3 of 64.
- ContractSafe: 10% to 6%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 6 of 64, unchanged.
- Agiloft Contract Management Suite: 10% to 8%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 4 of 64.
- Conga CLM: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 11 → 10 of 64.
- Concord: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 34 → 11 of 64.
- Juro: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 13 of 64.
- Adobe Acrobat Sign: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 13 → 16 of 64.
- LinkSquares: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 15 → 23 of 64.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, October 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.