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Inside 540 Obligations Across Real Healthcare Contracts
Health plans and their vendors file real contracts with the SEC - including Omada's agreement with Cigna. We counted every binding clause in seven of them: 540 obligations across 49,892 words, and a CMS contract form that does not match the regulation it cites.
InsightsAugust 10, 202610 min read
GuidesAugust 17, 20269 min read
Best FDR and Vendor Oversight Software for Health Plans and Systems (2026)
We think FDR oversight spans four jobs that no single category covers: screening people, assessing vendor risk, running the compliance program, and verifying contract obligations. Here is which tools do which, and where the gap is.
GuidesAugust 12, 20266 min read
Tracking Payor Contracts: The Terms You Negotiated and Stopped Enforcing
Health systems spend months negotiating payor agreements and then never check whether the terms hold. The rights that go unenforced are the ones with no invoice attached - escalators, timely filing, audit windows, notice periods.
GuidesAugust 5, 20266 min read
Vendor Insurance Compliance: Tracking COIs and Certificate Expirations at Scale
A certificate of insurance is not proof of coverage. It is a producer's description of what coverage looked like the day it was issued, and it confers nothing. Here is what has to be checked instead, and why expiration dates are the easiest part.
GuidesAugust 3, 20268 min read
FDR Oversight for Medicare Advantage Plans: What CMS Requires and How to Automate It
A health plan can push the work down the chain. It cannot push the responsibility. Here is what CMS requires of an FDR oversight program, and which parts a machine can carry.
InsightsJuly 21, 20265 min read
You Already Have a CLM. Why Do You Need Harper?
A contract lifecycle manager tells you what you agreed to. It cannot tell you whether it is still true. That gap, between the signed contract and the live obligation, is the job Harper does, and the reason the two belong together.
InsightsJuly 14, 20266 min read
The Unexplored Frontier of Contract Compliance
The cost of building software has collapsed, and the number of vendors every organization must trust is about to reorder. Compliance is the bottleneck, and continuous contract enforcement is the frontier no one has claimed yet.
GuidesJuly 7, 202611 min read
Best Vendor Contract Compliance & Obligation-Tracking Software (2026)
One vendor contract hides 150+ live obligations no CLM watches after signing. A 2026 guide to the tools that verify them, and where each one stops.
InsightsJune 16, 20265 min read
What Vendor Contract Management Looks Like in a World With AI
For decades a contract has been a document you sign and file. With AI, it becomes a live system that knows its own obligations and whether they are being met - and the work inverts from reading everything to reviewing the exceptions.
InsightsMay 26, 20264 min read
Will AI Take My Job? An Honest Answer for Compliance Analysts
The parts of vendor compliance that AI is coming for are the parts you never liked anyway. What is left is the judgment, and the job that does the judgment is getting bigger, not smaller.
ProductMay 5, 20263 min read
Meet Harper
Vendor compliance is mostly reading contracts and chasing paper. Harper does both, so the person who owns it can stop keeping plates spinning.
ProductApril 21, 20264 min read
Obligation Tracking: Turn Static Contracts Into Live, Evidenced Tasks
One vendor contract hides 150-plus ongoing obligations in a dead PDF. Harper turns each into a live, owned, evidenced task you can actually track.
InsightsApril 7, 20267 min read
Can AI Track Vendor Contract Obligations? What It Does Well - and Where a Human Still Decides
AI can read every clause and monitor whether vendors keep their end, at a scale no team can match. The judgment calls still belong to a person.
InsightsFebruary 4, 20261 min read
The Illusion of Certificates
SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST are NOT vendor contract compliance. Many vendors incorrectly believe this, exposing their enterprise customers to massive hidden risk.
InsightsFebruary 2, 20262 min read
The Problem With Looming Audits
It's not a matter of if you'll get audited, but a matter of when. The problem lies at the very beginning: vendors lack proper tooling to organize compliance efforts.
CompanyJanuary 28, 20262 min read
Announcing Harper
We're excited to publicly announce Harper: a new way for health plans and systems to oversee, analyze, and boost vendor contract compliance.