# How DeepL uses SpotDraft

**5x**: “contracts negotiated on their paper were 5x faster”

As published on [spotdraft.com](https://www.spotdraft.com/customer-stories/deepl), September 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [DeepL](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/deepl.md)
- Tool: [SpotDraft](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/spotdraft.md)
- Industry: [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/artificial-intelligence.md)
- Teams: Legal, Legal Operations, Field teams

## What the story says

DeepL's legal team uses SpotDraft as a contract lifecycle management platform rolled out across the business. It speeds up contract turnaround and provides analytics and reporting that Legal Ops uses to show legal's impact to executives.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of SpotDraft and DeepL, not ours.

> Data-driven insights: DeepL discovered contracts negotiated on their paper were 5x faster, which changed how teams negotiated and prioritized contracts.

> We wanted to move the conversation from legal as a cost center to legal as a generator of revenue — and having a CLM helped us do that.
>
> André Barrow, Head of Legal Operations

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 5x is printed word for word on the page, near the name of DeepL.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of DeepL.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: DeepL uses SpotDraft. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/deepl-spotdraft · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology