# How Heineken uses Ironclad

**50%**: “Cycle time for sales contracts in Brazil dropped by roughly 50%”

As published on [ironcladapp.com](https://ironcladapp.com/resources/customer-stories/heineken), September 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-02.

- Company: [Heineken](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/heineken.md)
- Tool: [Ironclad](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/ironclad.md)
- Industry: [Consumer Goods](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/consumer-goods-fmcg.md)
- Teams: sales, legal, finance, IT, procurement

## What the story says

Heineken uses Ironclad as a single global contracting platform across its operating companies, with flexible templates and approval chains for sales and procurement contracts. It gives teams visibility into contract status and structured, searchable contract data after signature.

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

> Cycle time for sales contracts in Brazil dropped by roughly 50%, and legal’s need to be directly involved in those deals fell by a similar margin—not because legal cared less, but because the process no longer depended on someone chasing it manually.

- **45 countries**: “By early 2026, Ironclad was live across roughly 40 operating companies in 45 countries, spanning sales, legal, finance, and IT.”

> When contract data is structured and searchable, you can make better decisions. You can answer questions in minutes rather than days. You can identify risks, and you have more opportunities for the business.
>
> Lucy Tudorovska, Global Head of Digital & Technology

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-03.

- Checked: the figure 50% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Heineken.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Heineken.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Heineken uses Ironclad. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-02.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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