An alarm tells you the window is closing. This does the prep.
The plan: roughly forty-five days before your last safe date to act, Sidecar would assemble the renegotiation — what the renewal costs untouched, where your leverage is, and a letter drafted and ready to send. It is not built yet, and the panel below says what is.
In development — not available yet
Renewal Watch — monitoring and deadline alerts — is live today on every plan. The prepared packet described on this page is not built yet. Join the list and we'll email you when it opens.
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 you get right now, before any of this ships.
Watching is not metered
Every paid plan watches an unlimited number of agreements — monitoring has never been the thing you pay per unit for. The free plan covers one reviewed agreement.
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 reads every review
Before any report reaches you, an operator approves it. AI speed, operator judgment.
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Straight answers.
Is this available today?
No. Renewal Watch — the monitoring and the deadline alerts — is live now on every plan. Renewal Autopilot, the prepared packet described on this page, is in development. Joining the list gets you an email when it opens and nothing else.
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 coming. The watch is already running, and it is free to put your first agreement under it.