The Our Paper field allows you to record whether a contract is drafted on your organization's standard terms or on the counterparty's paper. It is available on all existing and new contract records and is an optional field you can set at any time.

For General Counsel and Legal Operations teams, this single field unlocks meaningful portfolio-level insight: understanding how many of your contracts are on your terms versus a counterparty’s terms is a key indicator of negotiating position, risk exposure, and the overall health of your contract portfolio.

How it works

When you create or edit a contract, you can set Our Paper to Yes or No using a simple dropdown. Contracts on your paper (Yes) typically reflect your preferred risk allocation, liability caps, and governing law. Contracts on counterparty paper (No) may require closer scrutiny during review and at renewal.

Tracking this field consistently across your portfolio enables your team to:

Quickly identify which contracts carry higher negotiation or risk exposure.

Segment your contract workload by paper type for capacity and resourcing decisions.

Report to leadership and the board on the organisation’s overall contractual risk mix.

Prioritise review cycles (particularly at renewal) for counterparty-paper contracts.

Benchmark your negotiating position over time and set targets for improvement.

Navigate to the Our Paper field

The Our Paper field appears in the contract details panel on every contract record. You can access it when creating a new contract or editing an existing one.

To create a new contract:

Go to 'Contracts' from the top navigation menu > select 'All Contracts' > Click '+ New Contract'.

Step 1: Set Our Paper on a new contract

When creating a new contract, the Our Paper field appears in the details panel on the right-hand side of the screen.

Complete the contract name and any other required fields.
Locate the Our Paper field in the right-hand panel.

Select 'Yes' if the contract is on your organization's standard terms, or 'No' if it is on the counterparty’s paper.

Complete any remaining fields and click 'Save'.

Note: Our Paper is an optional field. If the paper type is unknown at the time of creation, you can leave it blank and update it later.

Step 2: Update Our Paper on an existing contract

The Our Paper field is available on all existing contract records and can be updated at any time.

Open the contract record you want to update.
Locate the Our Paper field in the contract details panel.
Select 'Yes' or 'No' from the dropdown.
Click 'Save'.

Step 3: Filter and report by Our Paper

Our Paper is available as a column and filter in the All Contracts view, making it easy to segment your portfolio by paper type.

Go to 'Contracts' and select 'All Contracts'.
Add Our Paper as a column using the column selector.

Use the column filter to display only contracts on your paper, or only those on counterparty terms.
To export a targeted data set by paper type, apply the Our Paper filter before exporting.

Tip: Filtering by Our Paper = No before a renewal cycle gives you an instant list of counterparty-paper contracts requiring closer attention. This is a simple way to prioritise your team’s review workload.

Result

Once set, the Our Paper value is displayed on the contract record and is available throughout the All Contracts view for filtering, sorting, and export. Over time, your portfolio-level data will give you a clear picture of your organization's contract risk mix. This creates valuable input for board reporting, Legal Operations reviews, and benchmarking exercises.

Limitation

Our Paper is a manual field, so it is not automatically populated based on who uploaded the contract document. Your team should agree on a consistent definition of 'our paper' before rolling it out, to ensure the data is meaningful and comparable across the portfolio.

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