An alarm tells you the window is closing. This does the prep.
About 45 days before your last safe date to act, Sidecar assembles the renegotiation — what the renewal costs untouched, where your leverage is, and a letter drafted and ready to send. It is built; the panel below says who has it today.
Pilot — switched on per workspace
The renewal packet described on this page is built and included with paid plans; during the pilot the Sidecar team switches it on per workspace. Renewal Watch alerts — 30, 14, and 7 days before each notice deadline — are also switched on per workspace during the pilot. Free watches up to 5 agreements.
Every renewal on one runway.
Four promises, each one checkable against the product. This is what Renewal Watch does the day you add your agreements.
- →Every renewal on one runway: the notice window, the last safe day to act (7 days before notice), and the dollars at stake, 12 to 18 months out.
- →Alerts at 30, 14, and 7 days before each notice deadline.
- →AI-read dates show their source quote and confidence; you verify them before the countdown matters, and anything you correct stays corrected.
- →Auto-renewals roll to the next term and the next window appears on the runway, with the old decision cleared.
During the pilot, deadline alerts are switched on per workspace by the Sidecar team. Until then your dates are still tracked, with the last safe day to act, from the day you add an agreement.
Knowing the date was never the hard part.
You get the alert. The notice window shuts in three weeks. Now you need last year's invoice, the clause that says what they can raise the price to, some sense of whether the terms are ordinary, and forty-five minutes to write a professional email you would rather not write.
So it slides. Not because anyone decided to renew — because the prep cost more than the afternoon it was competing with. The agreement renews on the vendor's terms, and the decision gets made by a calendar.
An alert tells you a deadline exists. It does not make the work any smaller.
A packet, before the window, with the work already done.
What this renewal costs if you do nothing
The current spend, the escalator the contract actually permits, and the number you will be paying next term if nobody opens the file.
Where your leverage is
The specific clauses worth pushing on, carried forward from the review of that same contract — with a fallback position for each, so you know what to take if you cannot get the ask.
Whether the terms are ordinary
Where the benchmark corpus supports it, how your notice window and price terms compare with similar agreements. Normal is not the same as acceptable, but knowing which one you are arguing about changes the conversation.
A letter you can send
Drafted in business language, in your voice, ready to copy. You read it, you change what you want, you send it. Sidecar never contacts your vendor.
This was an analyst's afternoon. Per renewal.
Reading a contract, pulling the escalator, comparing it against what similar agreements do, and drafting a negotiation letter is a few hours of skilled work. At a few hours per renewal across a stack of thirty vendors, nobody was ever going to do it for a business this size — which is why nobody did, and why the renewals kept landing on the vendor's terms.
What changed is the cost of the reading. Sidecar has already analyzed that contract and kept the structured result: the dates, the escalator, the clauses worth pushing on, the fallback for each. Assembling the packet is not a fresh act of analysis. It is arithmetic and drafting over work that is already sitting there.
What the watch does, with or without the packet.
Watching every agreement on paid plans
Paid plans watch every agreement in the workspace. Free watches up to 5 agreements and includes 1 full review in total — it doesn't reset.
The deadline that actually matters
Alerts at 30, 14, and 7 days — measured against the notice deadline, not the renewal date. The dangerous date is the earlier one.
A human review when you want one
Every report is yours as soon as the analysis finishes. Request a Sidecar review on any of them, free: a reviewer confirms it or adds corrections.
Straight answers.
Is this available today?
It is built, and during the pilot it is switched on per workspace. The packet is included with paid plans, which the Sidecar team sets up with you; once it is on, it is assembled about 45 days before the last safe day to act on a watched agreement. Renewal Watch — the deadline alerts at 30, 14, and 7 days — runs on the same schedule.
Will Sidecar email my vendor?
No, and this is not a setting. Sidecar drafts; you send. Nothing leaves your workspace addressed to a counterparty, ever.
Is a drafted letter legal advice?
No. Sidecar is business decision support, not a law firm, and no attorney-client privilege attaches to what you upload. A drafted letter is business correspondence. Where an agreement requires formal notice in a specific form, that should go through your counsel — and every packet says so.
What will it cost?
Included with a plan rather than metered separately. The whole point of a subscription that watches your stack is that the watching pays for itself, and a packet you have to decide whether to buy is a packet you will skip on the renewal that mattered.
The cheapest renewal to fix is the one that hasn't happened yet.
Autopilot is switched on per workspace during the pilot. The watch comes with every workspace, and it is free to put your first agreement under it.