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

Gane Index, November 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/2026-11/enterprise

**Standing:** Icertis Contract Intelligence leads with 22% of first choices; verdict contested. 58 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) | 22% | 21% | 61 |
| 2 | [Ironclad](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/ironclad/index.md) | 19% | 20% | 60 |
| 3 | [DocuSign](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/docusign/index.md) | 16% | 5% | 22 |
| 4 | [Agiloft Contract Management Suite](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/agiloft-contract-management-suite/index.md) | 12% | 13% | 54 |
| 5 | [DocuSign CLM](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/docusign-clm/index.md) | 9% | 24% | 41 |
| 7 | [Sirion](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/sirion/index.md) | 3% | 11% | 37 |
| 16 | [Adobe Acrobat Sign](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/adobe-acrobat-sign/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 15 |
| 17 | [Conga CLM](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/conga-clm/index.md) | 0% | 24% | 33 |
| 19 | [SAP Ariba Contracts](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/sap-ariba-contracts/index.md) | 0% | 26% | 19 |
| 20 | [Workday CLM](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/workday-clm/index.md) | 0% | 17% | 12 |
| 69 | [PandaDoc](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/pandadoc/index.md) | 0% | 50% | 10 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 70 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: Sirion; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Conga CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Ironclad
- GPT-5.4 mini: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives DocuSign CLM, Ironclad, Sirion
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, DocuSign CLM, Ironclad, Sirion
- Perplexity Sonar: Ironclad; alternatives Conga CLM, DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Ivalua
- Grok 4.20: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives DocuSign CLM, Ironclad, Sirion
- Mistral Small: Ironclad; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Lexagle, Sirion
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Ironclad, Sirion
- Llama 4 Maverick: DocuSign CLM; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Conga CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Ironclad
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Icertis Contract Management; alternatives Apttus, DocuSign Adobe CLM, Ironclad, Revvio
- Kimi K2: Icertis Contract Intelligence, Ironclad; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Ironclad
- MiniMax M2.5: DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Ironclad, Malbek CLM, Sirion
- GPT-6 Luna: Ironclad; alternatives DocuSign CLM, Icertis Contract Intelligence, Sirion
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Ironclad; alternatives Agiloft Contract Management Suite, Conga CLM, DocuSign, Icertis Contract Intelligence

## Sources the answers cite

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

- sirion.ai: 25 answers, 38 citations
- ciopages.com: 25 answers, 25 citations
- bindlegal.com: 23 answers, 34 citations
- concord.app: 21 answers, 26 citations
- ironcladapp.com: 20 answers, 24 citations
- oneflow.com: 19 answers, 20 citations
- spotdraft.com: 19 answers, 19 citations
- aline.co: 18 answers, 18 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/contract-lifecycle-management (25 answers)
- https://oneflow.com/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software (19 answers)
- https://aline.co/post/enterprise-clm-software (14 answers)
- https://lexagle.com/blog-en-sg/best-enterprise-contract-management-systems (11 answers)
- https://contracko.com/clm-reviews (10 answers)
- https://albato.com/blog/publications/best-e-signature-software (9 answers)
- https://financesonline.com/c/contract-lifecycle-management-software/enterprise (9 answers)
- https://gartner.com/en/documents/7159730 (9 answers)
- https://zylo.com/blog/best-contract-management-software (9 answers)
- https://bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/best-enterprise-clm (8 answers)

## Warned against

- Icertis Contract Intelligence: 13 of 61 labels negative. "Avoid for This Use Case (Unless Budget is Unlimited) | Icertis | ... can escalate unpredictably as you scale." (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Ironclad: 12 of 60 labels negative. "Per-seat pricing is the least predictable model for thousands of users" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- DocuSign CLM: 10 of 41 labels negative. "the most concrete "avoid-or-use-cautiously" pick is DocuSign CLM" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- Conga CLM: 8 of 33 labels negative. "Steer clear of Conga, ICERTIS, likely burn fingers" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Icertis Contract Intelligence at 22%.

- DocuSign: 7% to 16%, +9. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 5 → 3 of 70.
- DocuSign CLM: 14% to 9%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 3 → 5 of 70.
- Agiloft Contract Management Suite: 9% to 12%, +3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 of 70, unchanged.
- ContractWorks: 4% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 10 → 9 of 70.
- Conga CLM: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 11 → 17 of 70.
- SpotDraft: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 13 → 61 of 70.
- Icertis Contract Intelligence: 21% to 22%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 1 of 70, unchanged.
- Ironclad: 18% to 19%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 of 70, unchanged.
- Sirion: 4% to 3%, −1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 7 of 70, unchanged.
- ContractSafe: 5% to 5%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 of 70, unchanged.
- Concord: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 12 → 8 of 70.
- Adobe Acrobat Sign: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 17 → 16 of 70.

## Record

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