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Clinical Trials Day 2025: Honoring the Backbone of Breakthroughs
The professionals who manage contracts, budgets, and operations don’t just support clinical research—they make it possible. This Clinical Trials Day, it’s time they get the recognition they deserve.
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MAY 20, 2025
Latest blog posts & press releases
Four Ways HHS Budget Cuts are Contributing to a Clinical Contracting Crisis
The future of clinical research is under pressure—and not just from shrinking budgets.
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APR 30, 2025
Myth vs. Reality: Why Part 11 Doesn’t Apply to Your Clinical Research Agreements
As clinical trial processes evolve and regulatory environments become more complex, organizations that focus on appropriate compliance without unnecessary hurdles will have an advantage.
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APR 24, 2025
AI in Clinical Research: Too Vital to Ignore in an Era of Budget Constraints
In today’s challenging healthcare landscape, all research institutions—from academic medical centers to community hospitals—face mounting financial pressures. The new administration’s proposal to cap NIH indirect cost recovery at just 15% (down from the current rates that often range from 40-60%) represents a potential cut of billions in research infrastructure funding.
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APR 15, 2025
Why Up to 85% of CTA Negotiations May Be Wasting Your Time—And How to Fix It
Data-backed insights reveal how sponsors and sites can streamline negotiations, accelerate trial initiation, and get treatments to patients faster.
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MAR 03, 2025
Last month, I shared a LinkedIn post highlighting a “No AI” clause that a major pharmaceutical company had included in a clinical research agreement with a hospital. The post garnered significant attention—over 20,000 views and over one hundred comments. It’s time for an update.
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JAN 16, 2025
Last quarter, our clients eliminated between 50-80% of their negotiations relative to their historical benchmarks. Agreements were signed with less friction and in a fraction of the time. We’re proud of delivering such incredible and demonstrable outcomes.
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NOV 14, 2024
Contracts for Cures: Streamlining Clinical Trial Agreements to Save Time and Lives
In the world of clinical trials, time is everything. Every day lost to administrative delay is a day longer that patients must wait for potential life-saving therapies. Yet despite this urgency, the average Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA) negotiation drags on for 64 days—a timeline that, given the stakes for all parties involved, is simply unacceptable.
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NOV 05, 2024
Want to Negotiate Your Contracts Faster? Try Empathy
Last quarter, our clients eliminated between 50-80% of their negotiations relative to their historical benchmarks. Agreements were signed with less friction and in a fraction of the time. We’re proud of delivering such incredible and demonstrable outcomes.
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OCT 04, 2024
Embracing AI as a New Colleague: Lessons from Stanford Physicians and GPT
AI has become an undeniable force in reshaping the way knowledge workers operate across various industries. From lawyers to doctors, AI has moved from being a futuristic concept to a present reality that professionals must navigate. But one thing is clear: working with AI isn’t about merely treating it as a tool or an enhancement—it’s about learning to collaborate with a new kind of peer.
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OCT 04, 2024
Put Down the Pen – Using Market Data to Reduce Negotiations by 50% – 80%
Investments banks using TCN and Integreon last quarter were 5x more likely to get their NDA signed without negotiation than the status quo.
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sep 13, 2024
“Thinking, Fast and Slow” about the Legal World and Contract Negotiations
The world lost a brilliant mind this week with the passing of Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” sparked an enhanced understanding and dialogue about human decision making.
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MAR 29, 2024
Landmark Case Study on M&A Finds More Than 80% of NDA Negotiations are Wasted Effort
TCN today announced the release of its transformative case study, “NDA Moneyball: The Results of M&A NDA Negotiations Don’t Change.” The case study, facilitated by The Contract Network’s innovative use of generative AI to analyze over 20,000 anonymized M&A NDA negotiation points, challenges traditional views on negotiation power dynamics in middle-market M&A.
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PRESS RELEASE
FEB 28, 2024
NDA Moneyball: The Results of M&A NDA Negotiations Don’t Change
In the world of private market mergers and acquisitions, the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) serves as the “opening act,” setting the stage for the process to follow. The common assumption is that NDA negotiations are a necessary evil and that the seller, as the author of the initial draft agreement, dictates the course of the negotiations.
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FEB 28, 2024
The Contract Network Launches Pioneering Solution to Transform Private Markets Deal Negotiations
TCN announced the launch of its private markets solution, focused on bringing private companies, investors and their advisors together more efficiently.
Read moreINTEGREON
PRESS RELEASE
JAN 23, 2024
Industry veterans deliver a collaborative platform and deep domain expertise to significantly enhance contracting and negotiations
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PRESS RELEASE
JAN 23, 2024
TCN announced that it has raised $8M in Seed funding. The round was led by Tusk Venture Partners, with participation from Andrew Sieja (Founder of Relativity), The Legal Tech Fund, Mayo Clinic, Toba Capital, and GC&H Investments, an investment fund associated with Cooley LLP.
Read moreTUSK VENTURE PARTNERS
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AUG 17, 2023
Designing The Contract Network: A Modern Solution for Contract Collaboration
Since February 2022, we’ve had the privilege of collaborating closely with The Contract Network. Biscuit took on the exciting challenge of designing both the branding and marketing materials, as well as the platform interface with enthusiasm and creativity.
Read moreBISCUIT STUDIOS
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JUN 02, 2023
Why We Invested in TCN by The LegalTech Fund
One of the most inefficient processes in the business world today is contract negotiation. Jim Wagner and Bill Murphy, seasoned professionals with extensive experience in large corporations, were all too familiar with the wasted time and resources that plagued contract negotiations.
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MAY 22, 2023
A new company coming out of stealth today, The Contract Network, aims to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” by providing an AI-powered collaboration platform that can be used by all parties to a transaction to more quickly “get to the point” in their negotiations.
Read moreBob Ambrogi
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MAY 18, 2023
The platform aims to reshape how all stakeholders to a transaction – including business principals, legal counsel, investment banks, and brokers – can “collaborate and close” up to 10x faster.
Read moreTHE CONTRACT NETWORK
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MAY 15, 2023
Founder’s Introduction to AI on The Contract Network
We are incredibly excited to introduce you to our collaborative contracting platform – The Contract Network. We are a destination where all parties to a transaction and their advisors can come together to get deals done faster and to simplify contract compliance.
Read moreJim Wagner
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MAY 15, 2023
Delivering Outcomes, Not Just Experiments, With AI in Legal Technology
Introducing The Contract Network – the world’s first AI-powered contract collaboration platform that revolutionizes contract negotiations. By harnessing the power of AI, every participant in a negotiation, from contracting parties to their counsel, gains a powerful ally.
Read morePhil Richards
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MAY 12, 2023
Empowering Advisors: Unleashing the Potential of Collaborative Contracting Spaces
Today’s business advisors face fierce competition, pricing constraints, limited resources, and high demand for speed. Collaborative contracting offers a game-changing solution to overcome these challenges and deliver exceptional results.
Read moreBETTINA DRAKE
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MAY 12, 2023
The Contract Network Collaborates with Mayo Clinic to Streamline Clinical Trial Agreements
The Contract Network, a startup collaboration platform focused on radically accelerating contract negotiations and simplifying contract compliance, has entered into a know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic to build a solution that will simplify the management and accelerate the negotiation of clinical trial agreements.
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APR 04, 2023
Revolutionizing Agreement Collaboration with The Contract Network
Innovation starts with a single vision, a desire to change the world for the better. At The Contract Network, we believe that it’s time to revolutionize the way businesses collaborate with respect to their agreements.
Read moreJim Wagner
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APR 04, 2023