--- title: What Is a Contract Repository? description: A CLM solution serves as the contract repository for your entire organization, making it a single source of truth for your team. image: https://blog.linksquares.com/hubfs/Copy%20of%20General_Thumbnail-4.png --- [Skip to content](https://blog.linksquares.com/contract-repository#main-content) [LinkSquares](https://blog.linksquares.com/) Open Mobile Menu [LinkSquares](https://linksquares.com/) Close Mobile Menu [Why LinkSquares](https://linksquares.com/why-linksquares/) [Products](https://linksquares.com/products/) --- [The LinkSquares Cloud One platform for all your in-house legal needs](https://linksquares.com/products/linksquares-cloud/) --- Contract Lifecycle Management Create, review, manage and sign contracts Legal Project Management Centralize your work and keep projects moving Cross-product capabilities Get scalability, efficiency and connectivity LinkSquares Onboarding Experience A step by step guide to get started today --- [Solutions](https://linksquares.com/solutions/) [Customer Stories](https://linksquares.com/customers/) Resources Content [LinkSquares+ Content curated for in-house leaders](https://linksquares.com/plus/) [The Library](https://linksquares.com/library/) In the studio [Demo Library](https://linksquares.com/demo-library/) Community & Events [Customer Stories](https://linksquares.com/customers/) [Events & Webinars](https://linksquares.com/events/) Learning [Blog](https://blog.linksquares.com/) [In-House Insights](https://linksquares.com/inhouse-insights/) [Knowledge Base](https://help.linksquares.com/) [Events](https://linksquares.com/events/) [About Us](https://linksquares.com/about-us/) [Careers](https://linksquares.com/careers/) [Press](https://blog.linksquares.com/tag/linksquares-news-press) [Pricing](https://linksquares.com/pricing/) [Request a demo](https://linksquares.com/demo-request/) Back Close Mobile Menu [Contract Lifecycle Management](https://linksquares.com/products/) [Finalize Streamline your contract creation process](https://linksquares.com/products/finalize/) [Sign Get your contracts executed faster](https://linksquares.com/products/sign/) [Analyze Your post-signature analytics & repository](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/) [CLM Suite One platform to rule them all](https://linksquares.com/products/) [Request a demo](https://linksquares.com/demo-request/) Back Close Mobile Menu [Legal Project Management](https://linksquares.com/products/) [Prioritize Manage, track, and report on legal work in one place](https://linksquares.com/products/prioritize/) [Request a demo](https://linksquares.com/demo-request/) Back Close Mobile Menu [Cross-product capabilities](https://linksquares.com/products/) [LinkAI Predictive and generative AI](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/features/ai/) [Integrations Connect the tools you love](https://linksquares.com/integrations/) [Reporting Improve your teams efficiency with KPIs](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/features/dashboard/) [API Integrate with any third-party app](https://linksquares.com/integrations/linksquares-api/) [Request a demo](https://linksquares.com/demo-request/) Back Close Mobile Menu [Cross-product capabilities](https://linksquares.com/products/) [Onboarding We're here for you from day one](https://linksquares.com/onboarding-services/) [Services Short on time? 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A contract repository is used to store and organize the contracts that your business runs on. A modern contract lifecycle management ([CLM](https://linksquares.com/what-is-clm/)) solution offers more than a filing cabinet ever could.  A [contract repository](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/)should be the onlyplace your company stores contracts and agreements. A CLM solution serves as the contract repository for your entire organization, making it a single source of truth for your team. ## **Contract Management Best Practices** To ensure that all your contracts are consolidated into your contract repository, your contract management solution should seamlessly [integrate](https://linksquares.com/integrations/) with every other tool that reads, edits, transfers, or otherwise interacts with your contracts. That way, storing contracts within the repository is automatic. For example, if your contract repository [integrates with DocuSign](https://linksquares.com/integrations/docusign/), every contract you execute via DocuSign will be saved to your contract repository. Integrations can separate a truly legal-centric contract management solution from other document sharing and management tools. Solutions like Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive make it easy to sync and share contracts across devices and team members. Still, they don't natively connect to the rest of your CLM suite. You'll need a solution that can integrate them.  [![New call-to-action](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/6934676/53325e6a-c3be-430e-a244-1c01edb7f748.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/6934676/53325e6a-c3be-430e-a244-1c01edb7f748) Your repository should help move contracts through the lifecycle stages and reflect those changes on a [dashboard](https://linksquares.com/dashboard/) when you have a defined contract workflow. Dashboards provide an intuitive, real-time snapshot of your contracts, giving you full visibility into legal commitments. A contract repository needs some form of optical character recognition ([OCR](https://blog.linksquares.com/what-is-ocr)) to convert images into text files. The best CLM solution will have OCR that is trained on standard legal terms. Without OCR, manual review of non-digital contracts can be incomplete and costly. With LinkSquares' [Smart OCR](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/features/smart-ocr/) process, you can easily run a full-text search of any document and create customized reports. Digitizing contracts enables [LinkSquares AI](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/features/ai/) to extract and identify over 100 key pieces of contract data, which we call [Smart Values](https://linksquares.com/products/analyze/features/smart-values/).  Above all, a contract repository should be integrated with your [contract drafting](https://linksquares.com/finalize-product/) and [contract analytics](https://linksquares.com/analyze-product/) tools. When you use automation to write better contracts and analyze existing agreements, every contract benefits from the powerful AI behind that automation.  If you're going to invest in AI tools, you don't want any contracts to be denied analysis because the AI couldn't find them. A centralized contract repository solves that problem. Every legal team and legal practice needs a contract repository. If you're ready to get your contract storage in order, [contact LinkSquares today](https://go.linksquares.com/demo-request). ![avatar](https://blog.linksquares.com/hs-fs/hubfs/alyssa%20.jpeg?width=290&name=alyssa%20.jpeg) #### [Alyssa Verzino](https://blog.linksquares.com/author/alyssa-verzino) Alyssa Verzino is a Senior Content Marketing Manager at LinkSquares. ## Subscribe to the LinkSquares Blog Stay up to date on best practices for GCs and legal teams, current events, legal tech, and more. ## Related Articles ### [Alyssa Verzino Jun 01, 2022 5 min read 4 Ways to Improve Your Contract Workflow Contracts are getting more complex every day, and your contract management processes need to keep pace. We recently highlighted ... 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