Static spreadsheets stop working around contract forty. Auto-renewals fire silently, SLA credits expire unclaimed, and concentration risk hides in plain sight. The fix is a three-check radar that runs against contract source data every week.
AI tools landed as net-new line items. Nobody owns the kill decision. Run the overlap matrix, the 30-day silent run test, the contract clause review, and the procurement reclaim — and bring the CFO a real number.