The Consulting Approach That Stays With You After the Engagement
Our work is designed to leave teams with capabilities they can exercise independently. The point is not to create dependency on external consultants — it is to build the knowledge, process and tooling foundation that makes day-to-day contract management navigable.
Back to HomeSix Reasons Operations Teams Choose Statutum
These are not abstract selling points. They reflect decisions we made deliberately about how to structure our practice — and the trade-offs we accepted as a result.
Process Before Platform
We document and redesign the workflow before we discuss tools. A clear process implemented simply will outperform a complex tool built on a confused foundation.
No Vendor Affiliations
We do not receive referral fees or commissions from CLM software providers. Shortlists are produced based solely on fit for your team's size, budget and workflow structure.
Tangible Deliverables
Every engagement concludes with something written and usable — an audit report, a process diagram, a runbook. Presentations without substance are not how we close engagements.
Published, Fixed Pricing
All three engagement formats are priced transparently. There are no variable rates or upsell pathways built into the engagement structure. What you see is what you commit to.
Senior Practitioners Only
All engagement work is carried out directly by experienced practitioners. Junior staff do not lead client-facing deliverables. The person who scopes the engagement is the person who delivers it.
Singapore Regional Context
Our frameworks reflect the multi-entity, cross-border contracting environments common among Singapore-based organisations — not frameworks built for single-jurisdiction Western markets.
Deep Familiarity With How Contracting Actually Works Inside Organisations
Our team brings direct experience from in-house operations roles — not theoretical exposure from advisory work alone. Jonathan Tan spent over a decade managing operations functions before founding Statutum. Priya Lakshmi ran a multi-entity contract function for a Singapore-listed group. Marcus Wong has worked on contract repository architecture across a range of industries in Southeast Asia.
This means our starting point in any engagement is an understanding of the organisational dynamics at play — not just the technical dimensions of the work. We know what it means to get a workflow change adopted across a reluctant business unit, or to rebuild a repository while the team is still using it.
What Tool-Agnostic Guidance Looks Like in Practice
- We assess five to eight CLM platforms against your specific requirements before producing a shortlist
- Shortlists include open-source and low-cost options where they are genuinely suitable
- We support initial configuration on whichever platform you select
- Our process design work is platform-neutral — runbooks do not assume a specific tool
- We maintain working knowledge of tools commonly used in Singapore-headquartered organisations
Informed on Tooling. Committed to None.
The CLM software market has matured significantly over the last five years. There are now viable tools at a range of price points, each with genuine trade-offs in terms of configurability, integration capability and ease of adoption.
Our role is to understand your workflow requirements, translate them into a platform evaluation framework and present options that reflect your actual situation — not the solution we are most familiar with from previous engagements.
A Practice Built for Operations Teams, Not Boards
Our primary relationship in any engagement is with the operations team doing the work — not with a senior sponsor looking for a high-level summary. This shapes how we communicate, what we produce and how we manage the engagement day to day.
Working sessions are structured around the actual workflow questions the team is trying to resolve. Deliverables are written to be used by the people who will implement them, not filed in a SharePoint folder and never opened again.
All enquiries receive a substantive response within one Singapore business day. No automated holding messages or tiered support queues.
Written summaries of every working session are shared within 24 hours. If something was agreed, it is documented.
Retainer clients have direct access to the founding team for questions requiring senior input — not just through an account management layer.
Transparent Pricing at Every Stage
Contract operations consulting does not need to be priced as a black box. Our three engagement formats are published openly so teams can plan and budget before any conversation starts.
Repository Audit
A clear picture of where you stand and what to address first — at a cost that does not require CFO sign-off.
Workflow Redesign
A complete process redesign with a working runbook, trained team and supported tool configuration.
Operations Retainer
Ongoing access to a named advisor without retaining a full consulting firm — designed for teams that want structured, sustained support.
How Our Approach Differs
Many consulting engagements produce recommendations without producing the tools to implement them. Here is how Statutum compares to that common pattern.
What You Will Not Find Elsewhere
The Clause Atlas Knowledge Base
Retainer clients access a curated, practitioner-maintained reference library covering CLM platform comparisons, process templates, intake form frameworks and metadata standards — updated quarterly. It is built from real engagement experience, not aggregated from public sources.
Quarterly Peer Group Calls
Retainer clients join a small quarterly call with other in-house operations leaders — a structured format for sharing observations on what is working, what tooling decisions are being made and what process questions keep resurfacing across different organisations.
Thirty-Day Follow-Up Included
The Workflow Redesign Engagement includes a thirty-day follow-up review — a structured check-in one month after handover to assess adoption, resolve configuration questions and document any process adjustments needed.
Multi-Entity Process Design
Our process frameworks are designed from the outset to handle multi-entity structures — separate approval chains per entity, shared repository conventions that accommodate different counterparty types, and metadata schemas that work across a Singapore holding structure with subsidiaries in the region.
Recognition and Achievements
Noted as a focused practice in the Singapore B2B operational consulting space — April 2024
All engagement data handling protocols reviewed against Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act — 2023
Listed provider under the Enterprise Development Grant advisory services framework for eligible SMEs — 2022
Contributing member of the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management Asia Pacific chapter — since 2021
Put These Advantages to Work for Your Team
A brief intake conversation is all it takes to identify the right starting point. No extended proposals or lengthy RFP processes — just a direct conversation about where your contract operations stand.
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