ASTERION · LEXSPHERE POST-AWARD
Module 02 — Contract Execution & Obligation Management

Contract Execution & Obligation Management

Take control of your contract once the ink is dry. Pre-award review tells you what you're signing — Post-Award tells you what to do next, every day, until the contract is closed out. The AI-powered control room that turns a signed contract into a live obligation register, deadline calendar, bonds tracker, and audit-grade evidence trail.

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THE POST-AWARD GAP

Most contracts go dark the moment they're signed.

Pre-award review is celebrated. Post-award execution is forgotten. The contract gets filed, the team moves on, and the next time anyone reads it is when a deadline has been missed, a bond has lapsed, a milestone has slipped, or the counterparty wants to claim. Margin protected at pre-award leaks out post-award — quietly, daily, until the close-out account.

Obligations get forgotten

Twenty to thirty duties per contract — yours and theirs — buried in a PDF nobody reads after Day 1.

Notice deadlines are missed

Time-bars are absolute. Miss the 28-day window, lose the claim. Forever.

Bonds & insurances lapse silently

Renewal cascade not tracked. Cover gap discovered after an event, not before.

~4 min
From signed contract to live management dashboard
Obligations, notices, risks, bonds, milestones — extracted, classified, and prioritised in minutes.
WHAT IT DOES

Six live registers. One control room.

01

Obligation Register

Every duty under the contract — split between what you owe (your action, your evidence) and what the supplier owes you (you chase, they deliver, you verify). Buyer-perspective by default.

02

Notice Deadline Calendar

Every time-bar in the contract, classified by what you actually have to do when it fires — send a notice, chase the supplier, or respond. T-14 / T-7 / T-3 / Day-of cascade alerts.

03

Risk Register

Contract-specific risks — FX exposure, LD ceilings, off-spec penalties, sanctions exposure, take-or-pay — scored 1–25 with mitigation recommendations.

04

Bonds & Insurance Tracker

Performance bonds, advance-payment guarantees, PCGs, PI, public liability, marine cargo, motor, EIL — with expiry cascades at T-90 / T-30 / T-7 / Day-of / Lapsed.

05

Milestone Schedule

Baseline plus revised dates, critical-path flagging, automatic AT-RISK / SLIPPING / OVERDUE detection — synced with progress evidence.

06

Live Market Monitoring

FX rates, commodity indices, LTIFR thresholds, and any other measurable trigger the contract relies on — watched against the levels at which the contract becomes re-negotiable.

STANDARD CONTRACT FORMS SUPPORTED

Trained on the contract families industry actually uses.

Trained on real signed contracts in each family — recognises sub-clauses, schedules, particular conditions, side letters, and amendments. LexSphere Post-Award sits downstream of Pre-Award but does not require it: any signed contract (PDF or DOCX) bootstraps the full management surface in minutes.

FIDIC Red / Yellow / Silver

Construction, Plant & Design-Build, EPC/Turnkey

NEC3 / NEC4

Engineering and Construction Contract suite

JCT

Joint Contracts Tribunal — UK building

JBCC

Joint Building Contracts Committee — SA

GCC

General Conditions of Contract — SAICE

IChemE

Process plant contract forms

ICC

Institution of Civil Engineers suite

Bespoke

Bespoke contracts following a standard-form structure

EIGHT SIGN-OFF GATES

Human-in-the-loop control for everything material.

Identity Confirmation Notice Calendar

Confirm the AI extracted the contract correctly, then sign off on the deadline calendar before alerts go live.

Risk Acceptance Notice Approval

Decide on every risk scoring 7+ — accept, mitigate, transfer, escalate. Approve every outbound notice with full draft preview.

Claim Sign-off Variation Approval

The system enforces all five causation links (event → effect → entitlement → evidence → quantum) and rejects weak claims. Material variations require Commercial Director sign-off.

Close-out Dispatch

Sign the final account, advance to permanent archive, seal records immutable. Second sign-off required before any notice is sent to counterparty.

HOW IT WORKS DAY-TO-DAY

Today's priorities. One-click chase. Closed-loop evidence.

Today's Priorities home screen

A prioritised queue of what needs attention right now — 'Chase counterparty for Performance Bond Delivery, 3 days to deadline' — written in plain English with one click into the right tab.

One-click chase notices

Where the supplier owes you something, a single Chase button drafts a formal demand notice — right tone, right contact, right clause — and lands it in your Outbox awaiting sign-off.

Closed-loop chase response

When the supplier replies, the system reads the inbound letter, recognises it as a response, and suggests 'Mark obligation satisfied — package delivered'. One click closes the loop with the audit chain intact.

Lex Support assistant

In-app AI grounded in your specific contract. 'What's our renewal deadline?' 'List our active bonds.' 'Can we claim under cl 20.1?' — answers cited directly to the clauses.

DAY ONE

One contract. One screen. Every deadline managed.

Upload a signed contract — PDF or DOCX. In about four minutes you get a live management dashboard with twenty to thirty obligations extracted and split between yours and theirs, ten to fifteen contract-specific risks scored and ranked, every notice deadline catalogued with cascade alerts, five to ten bonds and insurances tracked with expiry cascades, and a prioritised today view that tells you what to do, in what order. Email integration is built-in — chase notices, supplier replies, and inbound correspondence flow back automatically.

Multi-tenant SaaS

Role-based access control. GDPR-aware. Hosted on Asterion's secure infrastructure.

Deployable in your AWS

Where data must stay in your own cloud, deploy LexSphere Post-Award into your AWS account.

Immutable audit trail

Every action, gate decision, evidence upload, and notice — hash-chained, tamper-evident, exportable for legal proceedings.