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How Meridia audits eleven years of contracts in an afternoon

A small legal operations team, a vendor archive nobody wanted to open, and the three clauses that changed their renewal strategy.

Amara Okafor

Head of Legal Ops, Meridia

Meridia’s legal operations team had a familiar problem: eleven years of vendor agreements, signed under four different policies, stored across three systems. Nobody knew exactly what they had agreed to.

From archive to answer

The team uploaded the full archive to Orchid and asked a single question: which agreements shift liability onto us in ways our current policy would not allow? The answer arrived with fourteen citations and three clear conflicts.

It found the three clauses our outside counsel had missed — and it showed exactly where they were.

Those three clauses now anchor Meridia’s renewal negotiations, and the review that used to take a quarter happens in an afternoon.

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