Gatekeeper Agentic Vendor & Contract Lifecycle Management

Most organisations don't know what contracts they hold, what obligations sit inside them, or when they expire - until something goes wrong. Teams come to Gatekeeper to solve a visibility problem, usually a costly missed renewal or a vendor-related audit failure they never saw coming. Gatekeeper solves these problems at source by automating the entire vendor lifecycle.

## Why This Matters Now

Third-party risk obligations are rising sharply across the UK and EU. The FCA holds regulated financial entities accountable for the governance of their material third parties, and that obligation flows downstream: every regulated buyer pushes compliance requirements by contract onto its suppliers. A large and growing population of organisations - many of them mid-market and cloud-native - now carry a governance burden they have no purpose-built way to meet, running it on spreadsheets and shared inboxes.

## Where Gatekeeper Is Different

Most of the market sells separate tools - one to assess vendor risk, another to manage contracts. They don't talk to each other, so what you learn about a vendor rarely makes it into the contract you sign. Gatekeeper keeps vendor risk, compliance, contracts and value in one place. For a lean team carrying a real compliance burden, that join-up is the whole difference.

## Who It's For

Regulated financial entities working through FCA material third-party requirements, and any regulated organisation - healthcare, insurance, utilities - that must prove its vendors are governed. Also built for teams running vendor, contract and spend management across siloed systems or spreadsheets, with a small procurement or finance team and a growing obligation they cannot keep pace with.

## Quantified Outcomes

• Reduce vendor onboarding by up to 90%
• Accelerate contracting by up to 75%
• Reclaim more than 30 weeks of manual administration
• Reduce vendor spend by up to 14%
• Implementation in less than 60 days

## Key Capabilities

**AI-Powered Automation:** More than 50 specialist AI agents, powered by Amazon Bedrock, automate due diligence, contract review, evidence collection, compliance monitoring, obligation tracking, and supplier performance - turning your data into answers and those answers into action.

**Contract Execution:** Automated agreement generation with integrated eSignatures. Sales teams can work and monitor progress entirely within Salesforce, while Legal teams retain full control over contracting processes and clause language within Gatekeeper.

**Vendor Compliance & Risk Management:** Continuous due diligence shapes the contract. The contract stays connected to obligations, performance, and spend. A continuous view of what every vendor delivers and costs surfaces savings your team can act on.

**Spend Management:** Centralized spend visibility across all vendor relationships helps identify cost-saving opportunities and ensures budget accountability.

## Integrations & Deployment

Gatekeeper connects with more than 1,700 integrations including Salesforce, NetSuite, and SSO providers. No-code integration capabilities, custom workflows, and API access ensure Gatekeeper fits into your existing technology stack. Employee and vendor portals provide self-service access for stakeholders across the organization.

**Prerequisites:** Salesforce integration requires a compatible Salesforce edition. SSO configuration requires an identity provider supporting standard protocols. A modern web browser is required for platform access.

## Security & Compliance Certifications

Gatekeeper holds SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, ISO 9001, and ISO 27001 certifications. Global hosting, robust access controls, audit logs, and single sign-on (SSO) support ensure enterprise-grade data protection and governance.

## Customer Story

"Gatekeeper gives us excellent control and visibility of spend. We have been able to terminate contracts that no longer serve us with a total value of $1.3m."

**Krupa Patel, Global Head of Procurement, Funding Circle**

## Use Case Example

A mid-market procurement team managing 500+ vendor contracts with SOC 2 compliance obligations uses Gatekeeper to centralize due diligence, automate renewal notifications, and maintain a continuous audit trail, eliminating manual tracking spreadsheets.

## Getting Started

With implementation in less than 60 days, Gatekeeper's onboarding team guides you through platform configuration, data migration, and integration setup. Request a personalized demo to see how Gatekeeper maps to your specific vendor and contract management workflows.