WHAT’S INSIDE
DECEMBER 2025 EDITION
Welcome to this month’s Poseidon Post! In this issue, we are digging into how AI investments are reshaping legal tech, what new cybersecurity and supply chain expectations mean for contracts, and what’s new with PoseidonCLM to keep work moving.
THE BIG STORY
AI money is flooding into legal tech. Here is what that means for your contracts.
Investors have just pushed more than $750 million into startups building AI tools for lawyers and in-house teams, from contract analysis to document drafting and research. That is a clear signal that AI-driven contract work is moving from experiment to expectation, especially for mid-size organizations that want in-house legal, finance, and procurement working from the same source of truth.
These tools promise to shrink outside counsel spend, speed turnarounds, and automate routine reviews, but the latest coverage also shows that buyers are choosing between many overlapping products. For teams that already have a CLM, the smart move is to focus on integrated workflows and data quality, rather than bolting on one more siloed AI widget.
Key Takeaways
AI for contracts has become a funded industry, so stakeholders will expect faster turnarounds and better visibility.
In-house teams are buying tools that reduce dependence on outside counsel, which increases pressure on internal processes and CLM configuration.
Legal operations trend data shows tools only pay off when they are fully implemented, integrated, and adopted.
CLM and automation roadmaps should prioritize adoption, training, and change management over chasing every new feature.
CONTRACT INTELLIGENCE
Quick takes on what’s happening.
Supply chain risk is now a contract problem
Vendor incidents have hit 1/3 of firms. To fight back, mid-size ops teams are using CLM to enforce stricter contract terms, ensuring audit rights and risk assessments are tracked rather than just filed away.
Legal teams want AI, but existing tools remain underused. Data suggests the issue is process design, not software. For CLM owners, the path forward is clear: optimize playbooks and workflows first to ensure AI is layered onto a functional, efficient system.
AI Needs a Stable CLM Foundation
New CMMC rules require contractors to validate cyber maturity to win awards. This turns security into a contract term. Ops teams must use CLM to standardize CMMC language and store assessments, ensuring that renewals are legally tied to current compliance evidence.
2025 trends highlight a shift toward agentic AI and unified platforms. Teams are moving away from isolated tools to systems where contracts and spend live together. For mid-size firms, CLM is the key to this unification, surfacing daily metrics on cycle time, savings, and risk.
2025 Trend: AI and Unified Data
POSEIDONCLM INSIDER
Get more out of PoseidonCLM.
Feature Highlight
The New Customer Service Portal - PoseidonCSP is now the central place for every customer to access support, documentation, and their dedicated Trident team. The portal includes five key areas designed to give users complete visibility and self-service control.
How you access it
The Customer Service Portal is only accessible from inside PoseidonCLM. On your Poseidon home page, a widget in the bottom-right corner provides your portal link and login details. This is the entry point for every user.
Support
Create new support tickets or review every ticket your organization has ever opened, whether it is open, active, or closed. All historical and in-progress support activity is now in one place.
Poseidon Documentation
A shared library of product-wide PoseidonCLM documentation covering features, navigation, and how the system works. Every customer sees this standard library.
Customer Documentation
A private, customer-specific knowledge base containing articles unique to your build. Teams can also request new documentation directly through an embedded request form.
Contact Team
A dedicated page showing your assigned Trident team. This includes your project manager, lead developer for your build, and your customer success manager, along with contact details for each.
PoseidonCSP brings everything together so customers always know where to go, who to reach, and how to get help.
Customer Review Spotlight
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Hawkes Learning
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Todd and the team at Trident over the past 5 years. Whenever we have a question about some random niche use case or new functionality need, their team is always quick to respond and help come up with a solution that works for us. Congratulations to everyone there on the 25th anniversary, you deserve it!
COMMUNITY CORNER
Questions & Quirks in the CLM Community. This month we have a trivia question and a poll!
Roughly what percentage of organizations in a recent ISC2 survey said they are very or extremely concerned about cybersecurity risks in their supply chain?
How often do you audit vendor contracts for security and compliance language?
BEFORE YOU GO
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