LinkSquares has introduced Workflow Builder Agent and Workflow Blueprints, two new capabilities for its agentic contract lifecycle management platform designed to help legal and business teams create sophisticated contract workflows using plain-language instructions instead of manual configuration.
The new tools are intended to reduce the technical complexity traditionally associated with building contract processes. Rather than starting from a blank workflow and manually defining steps, dependencies, routing and approvals, users can describe what they want the process to accomplish in plain English and allow LinkSquares to translate that intent into an operational workflow.
Workflow Builder Agent can generate the sequence of steps, dependencies and routing needed to execute the process. Users can then continue interacting with the system conversationally to add steps, change approval paths or modify routing as business policies evolve.
The workflow remains editable throughout the process, giving legal teams visibility into how the automation is structured before anything is published.
Workflow Blueprints provide a second way to create contract processes.
Instead of generating a workflow entirely from natural-language instructions, users can begin with a ready-to-customize template covering common pre-signature and post-signature processes across both buy-side and sell-side contracting.
Teams can then adapt the blueprint to reflect their own policies, approval structures and operating requirements.
The combination is designed to address one of the more difficult aspects of contract lifecycle management: translating complicated internal policies into software workflows.
Contract approvals rarely follow a single simple path. Requirements may vary based on agreement type, contract value, business unit, ownership, vendor risk, data access and other conditions.
LinkSquares said its broader workflow capabilities can account for that complexity using flexible conditions, range-based routing, clearer data mapping and more reliable assignment and status controls.
Legal teams can also determine which users and groups are permitted to launch specific workflows.
The company is positioning the release around a model where AI performs more of the workflow-building work while legal teams retain governance and final control.
Users can review and modify the configuration before publication, control access to workflows and determine what ultimately goes live.
That distinction is particularly important in legal and contracting environments, where automation must often follow carefully defined internal policies and approval requirements.
Workflow Builder Agent operates inside LinkSquares’ governed workflow environment rather than creating automations independently outside the platform.
The release also reflects LinkSquares’ broader view of agentic AI.
The company argues that AI in contract management should move beyond surfacing information or recommending next steps and instead help users create and execute work directly, while remaining subject to business-defined permissions and oversight.
Workflow Builder Agent extends that approach into workflow design itself.
For example, a legal team could describe a process requiring higher-value agreements to be routed to additional approvers, contracts involving certain data types to undergo privacy review, and specific vendor agreements to receive security approval.
Instead of manually configuring each rule and dependency, the AI can turn those requirements into an editable workflow.
Teams can later revisit the process conversationally and request changes without rebuilding the entire automation from the beginning.
The capability could make advanced contract automation more accessible to employees who understand legal and business processes but do not have expertise configuring workflow software.
That is an important distinction for in-house legal operations teams, which may depend on administrators, consultants or other technical specialists to build and maintain more complicated CLM workflows.
LinkSquares is seeking to move more of that configuration directly into the hands of the people responsible for designing and governing the contracting process.
The company serves more than 1,200 customers, including DraftKings, ProPharma and TIME.
Its platform uses AI across the contract lifecycle to help organizations manage agreements, extract information, analyze contracts and automate legal and business workflows.
Workflow Builder Agent and Workflow Blueprints expand that strategy by applying agentic AI to the underlying processes through which contracts are reviewed, approved and managed.
The broader objective is to allow organizations to encode increasingly complex contracting policies into software without forcing legal teams to simplify their governance requirements to fit the limitations of traditional workflow builders.
KEY QUOTES:
“Legal teams already understand the policies and processes that keep their businesses moving. They shouldn’t also have to become workflow configuration experts to automate them. Workflow Builder Agent represents a fundamental shift in how people interact with CLM: from configuring software to simply describing what the business needs to accomplish. AI does the building, while the legal team maintains the oversight, governance and control.”
Andrew Leverone, Chief Product Officer at LinkSquares
