Where a Contract Actually Loses Its Days
A contract loses its days between drafts, not during them. Legal turns a redline in hours; the document then sits in an inbox waiting for a signature from someone travelling, gets printed, scanned at an angle, and returned with only one of the two required signatures on it.
Sales operations feel this as slipped quarters and legal teams feel it as being blamed for a delay they did not create. The promo lands when it puts the delay where it actually occurs, because both audiences have been arguing about it and neither has the data. One thing to keep off screen is legal validity claims: enforceability of electronic signatures depends on jurisdiction and document type, and a blanket statement will be challenged by the first counterparty's counsel.
The contract is followed across six scenes: one on the redline turned quickly, two on the days lost after it, one on routing that knows who signs in what order, one on what the audit trail shows afterwards, and one on running a single agreement type through it.
