Parties regularly consider their agreements in isolation. However, it is also important that they are coordinated with agreements on the same contractual objects or areas. In relation to these, the agreements must contain no contradictions and must be coordinated in terms of timing, especially with regard to their termination.
For example, individual contracts must be compared with the corresponding general terms and conditions; they may not contradict them. A software development contract must also be coordinated with a software maintenance contract: the elimination of defects under the development contract (free of charge) must be distinguished from the elimination of faults under the maintenance contract (against payment). In my practice I had a case in which a software licence agreement was not coordinated with a cloud contract: the client terminated the licence agreement in the middle of the year, but still had to pay for the cloud in which the licensed software was installed until the end of the year, although he no longer needed the cloud without the licence.
In large companies, the company-wide coordination of contracts used to be a «mission impossible». With AI it has become possible: contract management systems read all contracts of a company and flag terms, notice periods and contradictions, and for a small business a chatbot does the same with two contracts uploaded side by side. Caution: contracts contain business secrets and personal data; before you upload them to a public chatbot, anonymise them (see Chapter 01.02, keep company data confidential) or use a tool that does this locally, such as the AdvoLab Anonymizer we are developing.