What do you like best about Streamline AI?
I can't say enough great things about Streamline AI. Just ask my colleagues! I'm a contract-negotiator turned platform-implementation geek (in the best possible way). Streamline AI has been a well-recieved intake platform at our quickly growing biotech company. Prior to Streamline AI, we weren't able to move quickly on requests or give instant visibility to colleagues regarding the status of their request.
Streamline AI's system allows me, a legal professional with no technical background, to build all of our intake forms and create custom workflows, quickly. And we have the ability to take a snapshot of the entire collaboration process that occurs in Streamline AI and add that snapshot as supporting document to our CLM so I still have the same audit trail of approvals that I had with my CLM.
For about a year, I had been utilizing a Smartsheet link to a tracker I built. This was my only way to give all employees the ability to funnel in requests - to try to keep them out of our legal team emails and slacks. It was really hard to keep track of how many requests each person in our legal group was receiving or actively working on at any time. It was time consuming for each of us to answer emails from our colleagues who were nicely acting for status updates - and really time-inefficient when many times the answer was that our legal team was actually waiting for said colleague to provide documentation or information and held the responsibility, not legal.
With Streamline AI, I don't have the same rigid barriers and constraints as our CLM workflow.
I don't have to have a user license for every person in my company. Now everyone has access to Streamline AI through our SSO. And the plus is I can track how much our legal team is helping and be able to report back to my executive team with real data.
I have access to speak to my professional services team and they respond quickly and if they don't know the answer...they find it and bring it back to me. And if the option doesn't exist, they're happy to log the request and I know it will be evaluated . No longer do I have to fill out tickets, search ancient knowledge base articles or tell my colleagues that I hope to hear back from someone soon. If I have a problem, Streamline AI finds a suggested solution. If I need help creating an intake form, they provide it, happily. If I accidentally delete a question used in a live form, they figure out when exactly I did it and help me fix it (unfortunatley a true story).
What do I like best about Streamline AI? That all of our colleagues have access to view a tracker that's easy to read *and* it was easy for me to configure. Don't get me wrong - my IT department first performed their diligence and were satisfied with all of the security responses Streamline AI provided to them; my IT department also helped me set up our SSO, Sharepoint, Slack and other configurations and they worked directly with the Streamline AI team without any major hiccups. But other than that, they have never been asked to get involved with any part of the process to set up or maintain our Streamline AI platform. Pretty cool! From the start of implementation to the introduction of our pilot program with about 4 intake forms live, we were up and running in less than 8 weeks.
Now, about 9 months after we signed our contract with Streamline AI, we have a variety of intake forms for our legal team - we've even expanded to other legal functions beyond our contracts team! We've also used Streamline AI to create a decision tree that is used by our procurement department to determine if a contract needs legal review or not. The Streamline AI system allows us to connect requests for easy reference, even after they've been completed. Now we can connect our colleagues who are working on similar tasks and give them more reference information as well. All of this has created efficiencies that were really needed. Streamline AI has changed the way that our team functions in our day to day work. Our contracts team relies heavily on Streamline AI all through the day to keep us in collaboration with our colleagues and the necessary parties up-to-date with each contract task under review. It's not an overestimate to say that Streamline AI has quickly become a platform that our legal contracting team depends on for our daily work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Streamline AI?
Streamline AI is building out the platform and I hope that what I dislike about it now will be a distant memory in 6 months. There are constant updates to the system which is awesome.
I would love to be able to select what documents are visible to users and other documents are only visible to our core users. I'd like/LOVE (and expect this will change pretty soon) - to have the ability to customize all of the status options.
I'd also like some more functionality with the workflows so I can trigger alerts or status updates based on a file being added from a particular site or integration, like DocuSign.
Some parts of Streamline are still a headache for me - may sound silly but not being able to change the font color or font size on intake forms has been challenging and I think would be helpful in terms of showing certain phrases in red color or larger fonts in certain fields for impact.
I think the biggest challenge that we have is relying on the notifications bell on the tracker to provide updates on any changes to the request. I read another reviewer that mentioned it would be helpful to have a row turn bold if there was a new change. I agree with that. The bell is a new addition and I love the ability to see the latest change but it pulls in too much from email threads.
Compared to what I had before I found Streamline AI, I love love love Streamline AI. I do think we'll need to look for a new CLM in another year and as of now, Streamline doesn't offer the full CLM. I am hopeful Streamline AI will integrate with more CLMs if it decides to focus the business on other areas than building a CLM - it's a strong system just as it's built now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.