Resources
Evaluation methods and checklists for legal, procurement, and IT leads, prepared by Zico, the contract management brand of Beijing FIM Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Selection guideBy Zico Team
For teams already running contract approvals in Lark, Teams, WeCom or DingTalk: when that is enough, when it stops being enough, and how a contract system sits alongside rather than replacing it.
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When contract data is scattered across ERP, CRM, e-signature and email, which system owns which stretch, which direction fields should flow, where duplicate entry comes from, and one rule for deciding the system of record.
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Standard contract management products rest on three assumptions: one entry point, mostly first-party templates, and a process that can be rearranged to suit the product. Which companies break those assumptions, and what the options are when they do.
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A scenario-based comparison of contract management products by their publicly stated positioning: company size, whether the system of record is being replaced, first-party templates versus inbound paper, and deployment shape. Written by the Zico team, with that interest declared.
Read articleMethodBy Zico Team
A contract process diagnosis is not requirements gathering. Its purpose is to locate the one stretch worth fixing first. The eight questions to answer beforehand, how the hour is spent, what it produces, and when to skip it.
Read articleImplementation guideBy Zico Team
For teams still running contracts through email and Word, importing history is the wrong first step. Which loop to connect first, how much history to migrate, how to run the dual-track period, and how to tell it worked.
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Seven problems specific to group structures: group visibility versus entity isolation, identity across collaboration tenants, authority thresholds, related-party transactions, data residency, register consistency, and permissions left behind after transfers.
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Form habits and approval systems a company cannot change are usually fixed points, so the contract system adapts. Two patterns from real rollouts: moving register fields to extraction plus confirmation at upload, and handing approval orchestration back to the existing spend-control or OA system.
Read articleIntegration guideBy Zico Team
If contracts already run through your workflow or contract system, AI review can be added alongside it. The three integration paths, where results land, who signs off, and what is out of scope today.
Read articleBuyer guideBy Zico Team
When evaluating a privately deployed contract management system, check three things: deployment, integration, and AI review. For each: what to ask vendors, how to verify, and how Zico (by FIM) does it.
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